Bryan Smucker, SPES Education Chair

The Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences (SPES) will sponsor the following two short courses at JSM 2014 in August:

• Modern Design of Factorial Experiments, by Peter Goos and Bradley Jones
  This course will be based on Optimal Experimental Design: A Case-Study Approach
• The Design and Analysis of Experiments That Use Computer Simulators, by Thomas Santner and Brian Williams
  This course will be based on The Design and Analysis of Computer Experiments

Descriptions of these courses can be found in the JSM 2014 online program by searching for CE course numbers 21 and 17, respectively.

On October 1, in conjunction with the Fall Technical Conference (FTC), SPES will sponsor a short course by Heath Rushing, “Text Mining and Unstructured Data Analysis Methods.” Other short courses at FTC include “Definitive Screening Designs,” by Bradley Jones and Christopher Nachtsheim; “Effective Presentations for Statisticians,” by Jennifer van Mullekom and Stephanie DeHart; and a course on reliability by William Meeker.