Distinguished Engineering Alumnus
Award Recipient
Robert H. Transou — 1996
This distinguished alumnus received his bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from this university in 1962 and a master's in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1966.
He began his distinctive career with Ford Motor Company in 1962 as a research technician and engineer and is now the group vice president of manufacturing, Ford Automotive Operations. He heads up the largest of three activities in the global automotive organization and directs more than 235,000 people in 180 plants on 5 continents. Selected by the chairman of Ford to lead a group of management through an important structural change, his team developed a plan to achieve global organization and led the “Ford 2000 Study Team” in working out the overall pattern that Ford automotive operations would follow into the 21st century.
An active member of the Engineering Society of Detroit, he also serves on the Georgia Tech Advisory Board. He has been elected to two prestigious engineering honor societies, Tau Beta Pi and Pi Tau Sigma.
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Also awarded in 1996
Robert H. Transou