The First 50 Years of the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan: 1955-2005The University of Michigan Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering has been ranked as the first, second, or third best department (of about 100) in Industrial Engineering since such rankings became available in the 1980s. The primary goal of this book is to explain how and why the subjects that now comprise an industrial engineering academic program were developed at Michigan, and how the faculty achieved such preeminence in the field. The