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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering is the industrial engineering department at the Pennsylvania State University in State College, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Founded in 1909, it is the oldest industrial engineering department in the world. According to the most recent U.S. News World Report university rankings, the undergraduate program is ranked eighth in the United States and the graduate program fourth. The department is headed by Paul Griffin and since 2000 has been based in the Leonhard Building, a $12 million structure containing the FAME manufacturing lab. Named for alumnus Harold Marcus and his wife Inge, the department employs 25 faculty members, who in 2007 served 163 graduate and 345 undergraduate students. Among the department`s alumni are Harold W. Gehman, a former NATO Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic (and later head of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board), and Gregory Lucier, the President and CEO of Invitrogen.