Quality and Productivity
Section Highlights FTC, Announces
Scholarship Winners
J.D. Williams, 2008 FTC Technical Program Committee Chair,
and Keith Eberhardt, Natrella Scholarship Committee Chair
T
he ASA’s Section on Physical and Bisgaard, Bert Gunter, Jon Kettenring, Bill • Introduction to Time Series Analysis and
Engineering Sciences and Section on Meeker, and Douglas Montgomery. The Forecasting, by Murat Kulachi
Quality and Productivity will jointly JQT invited session will feature talks on pro-
• Data Quality and Record Linkage
host the 2008 Fall Technical Conference file monitoring and industrial statistics in the
Techniques, by Fritz Scheuren and
(FTC) October 9–10 at the Hilton Phoenix pharmaceutical industry.
Thomas N. Herzog
East/Mesa Hotel. The theme for this year’s Q&P will sponsor a special session on
conference is “Statistics & Quality: Coming quality in health care, featuring a panel discus-
The most current FTC program brochure
to the Table for Growth and Improvement.” sion from Jason Gillikin, who is a practicing
can be found at
http://ftc2008.asu.edu. The
More than 30 tutorials and case stud- statistician in a hospital; Geni Chariker, who
hotel has reserved a block of rooms for con-
ies will be presented in the areas of quality
is a nurse employing statistical tools in a hos-
ference participants until September 16, so be
and statistics by speakers representing indus-
pital; and James Benneyan of Northeastern
sure to register early.
try, government, and academia. Topics will
University, who will provide an academic
include control charting, design of experi-
perspective. The other three sponsoring orga-
2008 Natrella Scholarships
ments, data mining, and other special topics.
nizations (SPES, ASQ Statistics Division, and
The recipients of the Mary G. and Joseph
Robert Rodriguez of SAS Institute
ASQ CPID) will likewise feature their own
Natrella Scholarships for 2008 are Veronica
will present the opening plenary session,
invited sessions.
Montes de Oca and Abdel-Salam G. Abdel-
“Questions and Answers: Statistics and
The conference also offers the following
Salam. The awards were presented June 4,
Quality in the Business World,” with Connie
pre- and post-conference short courses: 2008, at the Quality and Productivity Research
Borror (Q&P chair) presiding.
Advanced Quality Control Methods:
Conference in Madison, Wisconsin.
Douglas Montgomery of Arizona State
Montes de Oca is a PhD candidate in the
• CUSUM and EWMA Procedures,
University will present “Some Experiences
Department of Statistics at the University of
by Jim Lucas
With Designing Experiments” at the SPES-
California, Riverside. Her presentation was
sponsored Friday luncheon.
• Methods for Designing and Analyzing
titled “A Nonparametric CUSUM Algorithm
The Technometrics invited session will
Mixture Experiments, by John Cornell
for Timeslot Sequences with Applications to
feature a panel discussion about the future
and Greg Piepel
Network Surveillance.” Daniel Jeske, a profes-
of industrial statistics, with panelists Søren
sor at the university, and Mazda Marvasti of
the Integrien Corporation nominated Montes
de Oca for the award.
Physical and Engineering Sciences
Abdel-Salam is a PhD candidate in the
Department of Statistics at Virginia Tech.
Industrial Statisticians Want to Visit
His presentation at the conference was
titled “Profile Monitoring Analysis Using
Janet Buckingham, Industrial Speakers Program Chair,
Semiparametric Methods.” Jeffrey Birch and
Southwest Research Institute
William Woodall, professors at the university,
recommended Abdel-Salam for the award.
The ASA Section on Physical and The University of Oklahoma HSC,
The Natrella Scholarship recipients were
Engineering Sciences’ Marquardt Bowling Green State University, and
chosen for dedication to quality improvement
Memorial Industrial Speakers Program Simon Fraser University had statisticians
through the use of statistical methods and for
has funding for four visits to universi- visit in the spring, and now the section
leadership, mentoring, teaching, scholarship,
ties across the country for the fall 2008 is accepting requests from universities for
and community service. The scholarships are
semester. This program was established the fall. If you are interested in having a
sponsored by the Natrella Scholarship Fund
in memory of Donald W. Marquardt (an speaker visit your school, contact Janet
and the Quality and Productivity Research
ASA Fellow and former ASA president) to Buckingham at
jbuckingham@swri.org.
Conference. In addition to giving a research
enhance the communication and interac- She will find out your school’s interest
presentation, each recipient received a $2,500
tion between industrial/applied statisti- and help locate a speaker for you.
scholarship, $500 for travel expenses, and
cians and academic statisticians and stu- To learn more about the speakers pro-
complimentary registrations for the confer-
dents. Speakers can visit for a full or half gram, visit
www.amstat.org/sections/SPES
ence and pre-conference short course. n
day, presenting a seminar and meeting and click on the Outreach and Education
with professors and students. link in the left column.
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