Lehigh University Lehigh Preserve Departmental and College Histories Lehigh History 2017 History of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Lehigh University, 1924-2010 Mikell Groover Lehigh University,
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[email protected]. History of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Lehigh University 1924-2010 Mikell P. Groover Professor Emeritus of Industrial and Systems Engineering © 2017 Mikell P. Groover 2017 Preface From 1924 until 1949, the industrial engineering curriculum at Lehigh was an option in the Mechanical Engineering Department. The importance of the industrial engineering program was recognized in 1930 by renaming the department Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Engineering. In 1949, the Department of Industrial Engineering was established as an independent entity in the College of Engineering, separate from Mechanical Engineering. Its name remained the same until 1994, when it was renamed the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, based on a recommendation of Peter Likins, who was Lehigh’s president at the time. Finally, in 2001, the department name was changed to Industrial and Systems Engineering, which remains its name to the time of this writing (2017).