Dorian Shainin 1914-2000

Dorian Shainin was born in San Francisco on September 26, 1914. He grew up in San Francisco, Shanghai, and New York. He attended Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, New York. After receiving his degree in aeronautical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1936, Shainin became a design engineer at the Hamilton Standard Division of United Aircraft Corporation (now United Technologies Corporation). Dorian Shainin’s career in design engineering shifted in 1939, when he began his work improving the quality and reliability of a wide array of products including airplanes, automobiles, cassette decks, light bulbs, space ships, and disposable diapers. In 1952, at the urging of his friend and mentor Dr. Joseph Juran, Dorian became a consultant. During the 1960s, Shainin worked for Grumman Aerospace as a reliability consultant for NASA’s Apollo Lunar Module. Over the course of 60 years, Shainin developed over 30 statistically based techniques, working with companies across all industries. Dorian Shainin was dedicated to the development of tools that were simple enough to be used on the shop floor and yet sophisticated enough to solve the toughest problems. Since Dorian’s retirement in 1995, that tradition has been upheld with Shainin, LLC; a global company of innovative, technical experts who solve and prevent critical problems in any technical environment.

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