Ralph Mosser Barnes (October 17, 1900 - November 5, 1984) was an American

industrial engineer Industrial engineering is an engineering profession that is concerned with the optimization of complex processes, systems, or organizations by developing, improving and implementing integrated systems of people, money, knowledge, information a ...

and Professor of Industrial Engineering at the

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, and the

University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California St ...

. He is known as author of the 1937 "Motion and Time Study," which would become standard work for industrial engineers for generations,Karasek, Robert, and Tores Theorell.'' Healthy work: stress, productivity, and the reconstruction of working life.'' Basic books, 1992. and as recipient of the 1941 Gilbreth Medal.Ralph Mosser Barnes
at ''wf-eng.slerahosting.com.'' Accessed 06-07-2017.

Biography

Born in

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, Barnes was the son of John J. Barnes and Martha (Mosser) Barnes. He obtained his BSc and his MA in mechanical engineering from the

West Virginia University West Virginia University (WVU) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Morgantown, West Virginia. Its other campuses are those of the West Virginia University Institute of Technology in Beckley, Potomac State College ...

, and his PhD from the

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to teach an ...

. After his graduation in 1923 Barnes started his career at the U.S. Window Glass Co. in

Morgantown, West Virginia Morgantown is a city in and the county seat of Monongalia County, West Virginia, Monongalia County, West Virginia, United States, situated along the Monongahela River. The largest city in North-Central West Virginia, Morgantown is best known as th ...

for a year. In 1924-25 he was Assistant Engineer at

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in Rochester, New York, working in Product Development. in 1925-26 he worked another year as Industrial Engineer at

Gleason Corporation Gleason Corporation is a prominent machine tool builder based in Rochester, New York, USA. It has manufacturing plants in the USA, Britain, India, China, Switzerland and Germany, and sales offices in those and additional countries. Gleason's import ...

also in Rochester, New York. In 1926 Barnes started his academic career as instructor at the

University of Illinois The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the University ...

. In 1928 he was appointed assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering at

, working his way up to associated Professor of Industrial Engineering in 1930 and Professor of Industrial Engineering in 1934. In 1949 he moved to the

, where he was Professor of Engineering and Production Management until his retirement in the late 1960s. Barnes was awarded the Gilbreth Medal in 1941, the Industrial Incentive Award in 1951, and the Frank and Lillian Industrial Engineering Award after his retirement in 1969.

Reception

Ralph M. Barnes is noted for his work in the fields of industrial engineering and management. The Work-Factor Council summarized:

Selected publications

* Barnes, Ralph M. ''Industrial Engineering and Management,'' 1931. * Barnes, Ralph M. ''Motion and time study.'' 1937. 3rd ed. 1949. * Barnes, Ralph Mosser. ''Work methods manual.'' 1944. * Barnes, Ralph M. ''Motion and Time Study Problems and Projects'' 1949. * Barnes, Ralph Mosser. ''Work sampling.'' WC Brown Company, 1956.

References

External links

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