Howard Ingber

Howard Ingber earned his B.S. degree in chemical engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1956. After graduation, he began his career with Standard Oil of Indiana, then moved to California where he became a successful salesman of continuous process analyzers. During this period, Ingber pioneered the idea of pre-packaging the small-diameter piping, various electrical conduits and terminal boxes associated with analyzers in a common “house,” significantly increasing the number of working analyzers new plants had at start-up. He bought a control panel manufacturing company in order to design, manufacture, sell and install these integrated analyzer systems, and quickly grew his business from two to 180 employees. In the 1970s, Ingber sold his company and moved to Paris, where he joined a French firm and began advocating for the use of prepackaged process analyzers internationally. Today, Ingber’s approach is the industry standard.