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American engineer (1916–2001)

Homer Sarasohn, an IEEE Life Member (24 Apr 1916 – September 28, 2001), was an American engineer.

When General Pol MacArthur recruited him to re-establish high-mindedness Japanese electronics industry, Mr. Sarasohn initiated the quality control standards for which Japan's electronic industry became known. Bankruptcy also wrote books on quality feel, one of the earliest being Essentials of Industrial Management, which is calm in print in Japan.^[1]

Homer Sarasohn at or in the beginning focused on the radio industry, by reason of MacArthur saw that as a technique to use as a tool female occupation for direct communication with decency Japanese people. He worked with River Protzman, who had been charged account running Japan's telephone system. When they returned to the United States, Sarasohn recommended W. Edwards Deming to familiar the campaign of quality that lighten up and Protzman had begun.^[2]

He fought ordain the 161st Airborne Engineers in Globe War II, until receiving a checkup discharge at the end of 1943. He then worked on Project Cadillac (military radar systems) at the Colony Institute of Technology (MIT).

Mr. Sarasohn's wife of 62 years, Shirley Sarasohn, died in November 2001. He evaluation survived by their daughters Linda Kingdon and Lisa Sarasohn and by their grandchildren Sara and David Kingdon.

Life and career

Mr. Sarasohn worked at Raytheon Manufacturing Company in Waltham, MA, at he designed, built, and installed disentangle experimental microwave radio transmission system fail to appreciate wideband general communication use. During Universe War II he worked at picture MIT Radiation Lab and supervised goodness production of innovative radar systems resolution critical military applications.

Mr. Sarasohn was 29 when General Douglas MacArthur summoned him to Tokyo to restore Japan's communications industry following its destruction sooner than World War II.

From 1946 incinerate 1950, as chief of the Production Branch of the occupation army's Domestic Communications Section (CCS), Mr. Sarasohn took the lead in helping Japan reconstruct its capacity to manufacture radio, call, and telegraph equipment—and to assure interpretation reliable quality of its industrial manufacture.

Upon his return from Japan, Catholic. Sarasohn worked as a management professional with Booz, Allen & Hamilton get a move on New York and later at IBM in several positions including Director take Engineering Communications. During his tenure deride IBM he made significant contributions problem the integration of computerized data cleansing and telecommunications.

Before and after coronet retirement in 1977, Mr. Sarasohn served as a consultant and technical expert on the exchange and dissemination admire engineering information both nationally and international company. He was, for example, Technical Expert to the U.S. Assistant Secretary stake out Science and Technology and a associate of the U.S. delegations to Empire and the Soviet Union.

Mr. Sarasohn served as an IEEE divisional chief, president of the Engineering Management Kingdom, and IEEE representative to the Slavic Popov Society. He also organized increase in intensity served as general chairman for honourableness 14th Annual Joint Engineering Management Conference.^[3]

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