Donald Clemens Burnham (January 23, 1915 - April 17, 2005) was an American business executive at

Westinghouse Electric Corporation The Westinghouse Electric Corporation was an American manufacturing company founded in 1886 by George Westinghouse. It was originally named "Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company" and was renamed "Westinghouse Electric Corporation" in ...

, and recipient of the 1971 Henry Laurence Gantt Medal.Lester Robert Bittel, Muriel Albers Bittel (1978), ''Encyclopedia of professional management .'' p. 456 In his days at Westinghouse he was known as "Mr. Automation.""Management: Mr. Automation," ''Time,'' Friday, July 26, 1963 Burnham was born in

Massachusetts Massachusetts (Massachusett language, Massachusett: ''Muhsachuweesut assachusett writing systems, məhswatʃəwiːsət'' English: , ), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous U.S. state, state in the New England ...

to Charles Richardson Burnham and Freda (Clemens) Burnham. He obtained his BSc from

Purdue University Purdue University is a public land-grant research university in West Lafayette, Indiana, and the flagship campus of the Purdue University system. The university was founded in 1869 after Lafayette businessman John Purdue donated land and money ...

in 1936.''World Who's who in Commerce and Industry.'' 1968. p. 196 He worked his way up in

, where he was president and chief executive officer from 1963 to 1968, and chairman from 1969 to 1975. He was awarded an ED with honor from the Purdue University in 1959, from the Indiana Institute of Technology in 1963, and from the Drexel Institute of Technology in 1964. In 1971 he also received the Henry Laurence Gantt Medal.

Selected publications

* Donald C. Burnham. ''Productivity Improvement.'' Carnegie Press, Carnegie-Mellon University, 1973.

References

External links

Donald Clemens Burnham papers: 1973
1915 births 2005 deaths 20th-century American businesspeople Purdue University College of Engineering alumni People from Massachusetts Henry Laurence Gantt Medal recipients 20th-century American engineers {{Business-bio-stub