Walter Rautenstrauch
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Dr. Walter Rautenstrauch (1880-1951) took the Chair of Columbia University's Department of Industrial Engineering in the 1930s.
Mechanical engineer. Dr. Rautenstrauch was a consultant to manufacturing industries, and for many years, professor and Executive Officer of the Columbia University Department of Industrial Engineering. He was instrumental in the creation of this department which is said to be the first such department in the United States. One of his most important students and colleagues was Seymour Melman who went on to be a Professor in this department.
[edit] Walter Rautenstrauch and the Committee on Technocracy
In 1932, Rautenstrauch formed a new organization, the Committee on Technocracy, which would chart the path to a more rational form of society.
