Table of Contents

• Preface by the Author
• Foreword by Steven C. Beering
• Foreword by Gerald Nadler
• Chapter One: An Enduring Quest
• Chapter Two: Practical Mechanics
• Chapter Three: Scientific Management
• Chapter Four: Industrial Engineering
• Chapter Five: Operations Research
• Chapter Six: Manufacturing
• Chapter Seven: Human Factors
• Chapter Eight: Systems Engineering
• Chapter Nine: Professional Practice
• Chapter Ten: New Directions
• Bibliography
• Index

About the Author

Dr. Leimkuhler was on the faculty of the School of Industrial Engineering (IE) during much of the time when the events described in the book took place, and he personally knew many of the people portrayed. He was educated at Loyola College and The Johns Hopkins University and worked for the DuPont Company before coming to Purdue in 1961. He was head of IE at Purdue for seventeen years and retired in 1999.