Stephanie DeHart, SPES Chair

Making plans to attend JSM in Seattle? Don’t miss the SPES/Q&P mixer Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. at the Sheraton in Grand Ballroom D. Also, consider donating door prizes. If you have something in mind, register your donation through the SPES/Q&P JSM Mixer Prize Sign-Up web page.

Zhen Wang, FTC Program Chair

FTC 2015

The Fall Technical Conference takes place October 8–9 in Houston, Texas, with sessions based on the theme “Solving Problems Today and Tomorrow,” including statistical process control, reliability, data mining, and applied statistics. William Q. Meeker—professor of statistics and distinguished professor of liberal arts and sciences at Iowa State University—is the keynote speaker, and ASA Vice President Jim Rosenberg will give a talk during lunch.

There will be three journal invited sessions: Technometrics, Journal of Quality Technology, and Quality Engineering. Four sponsor sections and divisions will have invited sessions: SPES, Q&P, CPID, and STAT. The talks will include topics such as design of experiments, Big Data, reliability, and dimensional analysis. SPES also will present an interactive panel discussion: “Success! How Is It Defined and Achieved?”

Following are one-day short courses offered October 7:

• Data Visualization
• Definitive Screening Designs: What, Why, and How
• Peering into the Future: Introduction to Time Series Methods for Forecasting
• Split-Plot Design and Analysis

The conference hotel, The Westin Oaks Houston at the Galleria, is located in the heart of Houston’s Uptown District. A block of rooms is available at the special conference rate through September 15. For information about the conference and Houston, visit the conference website.