Thomas H. Lee (Chinese: 李天和; pinyin: Lǐ Tiānhé; May 11, 1923 – February 4, 2001) was a Chinese-American electrical engineer and writer.
[1] Lee went to the United States to further his training, and when the Chinese Communist Revolution overthrew the ROC in 1949, he and his wife chose to stay in the U.S.
[6] In 1980, he joined the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on the invitation of Gerald L. Wilson, Dean of the School of Engineering.
He served as Director of the Laboratory for Electromagnetic and Electronic Systems and co-chaired the MIT Sloan School's Management of Technology program.
[1] After retiring from MIT in 1988, Lee co-founded the Center for Quality Management (CQM), together with Alex d'Arbeloff and Ray Stata.
Joel Moses credits Lee with helping American industry cope with the challenge from Japanese manufacturers.
[1] In 1999 Lee published the book Integrated Management Systems: A Practical Approach to Transforming Organizations, which he co-authored with Shoji Shiba and Robert Chapman Wood.