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Industrial engineering

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:

Barrett Caldwell papers, addition 04

 Unprocessed Material — Communal accessions box 7
Identifier: 20140619

Collection of materials related to Lillian Gilbreth, addition 01

 Unprocessed Material — Communal accessions box 14
Identifier: 20091219

Collection of materials related to Lillian Gilbreth, addition 02

 Unprocessed Material — Communal accessions box 3
Identifier: 20140425.8

Elayne Brower papers, addition 01

 Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2025-005

Elayne Marian Brower papers

 Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2023-012

Frank and Lillian Gilbreth papers, addition 02

 Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 20120615

Frank and Lillian Gilbreth papers, addition 03

 Unprocessed Material — Box 1
Identifier: 2024-090

Frank and Lillian Gilbreth Library of Management Research and Professional papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 8
Scope and Contents The Gilbreth Library of Management documents the pioneering research of Frank Gilbreth and Lillian Gilbreth in the fields of time and motion study. Commonly referred to as the N-file, the collection covers the Gilbreths quest to find The One Best Way in job performance, worker satisfaction, efficient office management, and home economics.Types of material in the N-file include photographs, manuscripts, correspondence, notes, blueprints, newspaper clippings, reports, and research...
Dates: 1845 - 1959; Majority of material found within 1906 - 1924

Frank and Lillian Gilbreth papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 7
Scope and Contents The Gilbreth Papers documents the professional and personal lives of Frank and Lillian Gilbreth. The collection consists of personal papers, letters, correspondence, photographs, and other memorabilia that Lillian Gilbreth collected during her life regarding her youth, marriage, family, and career. Types of materials in the collection include: personal correspondence between Frank and Lillian Gilbreth regarding their courtship, marriage, family, and work; correspondence between the Gilbreths...
Dates: 1869 - 2000; Majority of material found within 1949 - 1968; Other: Date acquired: 11/30/1971

Gilbreth Library collection

 Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 20140529

Indiana Engineering Society records

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSP 16
Scope and Contents The Indiana Engineering Society Records (1913-1937, 0.5 cubic feet) document the correspondence, activities and conferences of the Indiana Engineering Society. Highlighting individual members and other regional engineering societies, the collection shows the Indiana Engineering Society's involvement with the community. Although the records span the years of 1913 to 1937, the majority of the records cover from 1927 to 1937. Types of materials include: correspondence, meeting minutes, by-laws,...
Dates: 1913 - 1937

School of Industrial Engineering records on Lillian Gilbreth

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: UA 177
Scope and Contents The School of Industrial Engineering records on Lillian Gilbreth documents the Gilbreth Library restoration project, and communication between Purdue and the Gilbreth family, especially communication with Gilbreth’s daughter, Ernestine Gilbreth Carey in the 1990s. The collection includes correspondence, memoranda, reports, documents and newspaper clippings regarding Frank and Lillian Gilbreth’s research. Series 1 includes a speech, “Talking ‘Motion Study’ in Japan”, that was presented by...
Dates: 1914 - 2013

Andrey A. Potter papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSF 527
Scope and Contents The Andrey A. Potter papers document the career, education, and personal life of nationally renowned engineer and educator Andrey Potter (A.A. Potter). Types of materials in the collection include articles; speeches; surveys; research and lecture notes; certificates, diplomas, and awards; photographs; correspondence; printed material; scrapbooks; medals; ephemera; artifacts; books and manuscripts; obituaries; greeting cards; reports; letterhead; newspaper clippings; and meeting minutes. The...
Dates: 1893 - 1986; Majority of material found within 1930-1970; Other: Date acquired: 11/30/1979

Arnold Sweet collection on James Barany

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSF 558
Content Description Includes one binder of the unpublished manuscript of the history of Purdue's Industrial Engineering Department, a disk of correspondence and working files. Collection also includes a biography/ c.v. of Barany & a document written by Dr. Sweet nominating Dr. Barany for an award. Collection is related to the history of the Industrial Engineering Department at Purdue. Dr. Arnold Sweet was on the committee that was writing a history of Industrial Engineering at Purdue, and Dr. James Barany...
Dates: 1955 - 2013