Gerald J. Hahn and Necip Doganaksoy
S. Ejaz Ahmed, Technometrics book review editor, is pleased to announce that the 2010 Ziegel Prize winner is The Role of Statistics in Business and Industry, by Gerald J. Hahn and Necip Doganaksoy. The book describes, generally through case studies, key business problems and how statistics is used to address them. The review appeared in Vol. 52, No. 1 of Technometrics.
Hahn worked at what is now the GE Global Research Center (GRC) for 46 years and managed its applied statistics group for 28 years. The group is a recognized world leader in advancing quality and productivity improvement in GE’s businesses and in the proactive use of statistics to address key manufacturing, engineering, and financial issues throughout the company.
Hahn is the author of more than 100 publications and wrote the Random Samplings column for Chemtech. He has co-authored four books and contributed chapters to 10 others. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and American Society for Quality (ASQ) and has served both organizations in leadership positions, including on the editorial board of Technometrics and as founding chair of the ASA’s Committee on Quality and Productivity. Hahn is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute and has been an adjunct professor at Union College and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI).
Hahn has won numerous awards, including ASQ’s Jack Youden Prize; Shewell Prize; Brumbaugh Award; Wilcoxon Prize; and Shewhart, Deming, and distinguished service medals. In 1984, he received GE GRC’s Coolidge Fellowship, the organization’s highest honor.
Hahn earned his PhD in operations research and statistics from RPI, holds MS degrees from Columbia University and Union College, and earned a BBA from Baruch College.
Doganaksoy has been a statistician and principal technologist at GE’s GRC since 1990. He is also adjunct professor in the school of management at Union Graduate College in Schenectady, New York. He has written more than 60 papers and journal articles about statistical applications in quality, reliability, and productivity improvement.
Like Hahn, Doganaksoy was awarded the William G. Hunter Award by ASQ (2009). He is also a Fellow of ASQ and the ASA and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. He served as an associate editor of Technometrics and senior editor of Quality Engineering.
Doganaksoy completed both his PhD in administrative and engineering systems (applied statistics) and MS in operations research and applied statistics at Union College in New York. He earned his MBA and BSc in management at Orta Dogu Teknik Üniversitesi in Ankara, Turkey.
Another book by Hahn and Doganaksoy, A Career in Statistics: Beyond the Numbers, was published in June by Wiley.
Dipak K. Dey
Dipak K. Dey, board of trustees distinguished professor in the department of statistics at the University of Connecticut, recently stepped down as head of the department and joined the administration of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at UConn as associate dean (physical sciences). In addition to his duties overseeing the physics, chemistry, mathematics, geosciences, marine sciences, and statistics departments, Dey will take care of graduate education within the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, develop the international program, and foster interdisciplinary research within the university.
Nick Horton
The ASA’s Boston Chapter is pleased to announce that Nick Horton was awarded the 2011 service award from the Council of Chapters in recognition of his many years of service to the Boston Chapter. An active member of the program committee, Horton also has served as the council representative and a member of the Council of Chapters Governing Board. He also led the birth of the Mu Sigma Rho initiative for the Boston Chapter and was recently elected to the ASA Board of Directors as the Council of Chapters board representative.
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