Ming Li, SPES Award Chair, and Vaneeta Grover, Industrial Speakers Program Chair

The 2019 SPES award winners are Simon Mak, Chih-Li Sung, Xingjian Wang, Shiang-Ting Yeh, Yu-Hung Chang, V. Roshan Joseph, Vigor Yang, and C. F. Jeff Wu for their collaborative work between a group of statisticians and aerospace engineers of modeling turbulence inside a rocket engine injector.

$1,000 Available for University Visits
The SPES Marquardt Memorial Speakers Program facilitates visits of experienced applied statisticians to colleges and universities to give a seminar and meet with students and professors. SPES reimburses the host institution up to $1,000 for expenses related to the visit. The speaker provides information to students about the following:

• What an applied statistician does
• How applied statisticians solve problems in science, engineering, technology, and business
• What nontechnical skills are required to be successful as an applied statistician

The Marquardt Industrial Speakers Program was established by SPES in the early 1990s to encourage careers in applied statistics. If you are an institution interested in having a speaker or a SPES member interested in being on the speakers list (or working directly with a local institution to set up a visit), contact Vaneeta Grover.

Fall Technical Conference in September
The 63rd annual Fall Technical Conference (FTC) will be held at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Maryland, September 25–27. The FTC has long been a forum for both statistics and quality and is cosponsored by the American Society for Quality (Chemical and Process Industries Division and Statistics Division) and the American Statistical Association (Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences and Section on Quality and Productivity). The theme of this year’s conference is “Statistics: Setting the Standard for Success in Quality.” For more information, visit the conference website.