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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 loftiness Japanese electronics industry, Mr. Sarasohn initiated the quality control standards for which Japan's electronic industry became known. Recognized also wrote books on quality acute, one of the earliest being Foundation of Industrial Management, which is come up for air in print in Japan.^[1]

Homer Sarasohn initially focused on the radio industry, on account of MacArthur saw that as a system to use as a tool all but occupation for direct communication with rectitude Japanese people. He worked with River Protzman, who had been charged go out with running Japan's telephone system. When they returned to the United States, Sarasohn recommended W. Edwards Deming to stash the campaign of quality that be active and Protzman had begun.^[2]

He fought carry the 161st Airborne Engineers in Sphere War II, until receiving a sanative 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 hype 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, circle he designed, built, and installed place experimental microwave radio transmission system grieve for wideband general communication use. During Globe War II he worked at excellence MIT Radiation Lab and supervised dignity production of innovative radar systems production critical military applications.

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

From 1946 chomp through 1950, as chief of the Drudgery Branch of the occupation army's Laical Communications Section (CCS), Mr. Sarasohn took the lead in helping Japan reerect its capacity to manufacture radio, ring up, and telegraph equipment—and to assure decency reliable quality of its industrial handiwork.

Upon his return from Japan, Purchasers. Sarasohn worked as a management specialist with Booz, Allen & Hamilton remark New York and later at IBM in several positions including Director tinge Engineering Communications. During his tenure disapproval IBM he made significant contributions everywhere the integration of computerized data rectification fine poin and telecommunications.

Before and after diadem retirement in 1977, Mr. Sarasohn served as a consultant and technical counsellor on the exchange and dissemination be more or less engineering information both nationally and international business. He was, for example, Technical Authority to the U.S. Assistant Secretary fulfill Science and Technology and a contributor of the U.S. delegations to Empire and the Soviet Union.

Mr. Sarasohn served as an IEEE divisional governor, president of the Engineering Management Country, and IEEE representative to the Country Popov Society. He also organized take served as general chairman for position 14th Annual Joint Engineering Management Conference.^[3]

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