William Freeman Myrick Goss

It was focussed on the production system instead of manual training, lectures on college level, and exercised to design saleable article of furniture, or tools.

After a six months leave-of-absence in 1888–89, Goss was appointed professor of experimental mechanics at Purdue University and founded its engineering laboratory.

[1] In 1899 Goss took a nine-month leave-of-absence studying theory and practice in Europe in England, Germany and France.

From 1907 to 1917 he was dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois, and in between served at the Chicago Association of Commerce directing studies on Smoke Abatement and Electrification of Railway Terminals.

[1] Goss was awarded an honorary Master of Arts from Wabash College in 1888, and a Doctor of Engineering from the University of Illinois in 1904.