Mark (Zhongnan) Jin, Section Publications Offer 

The Quality and Production Section executive committee met on October 9 to discuss 2024 goals, which will focus on the following four key areas:

Increasing Student and Early-Career Membership

• Restart the Q&P mentorship program. This program connects mentors with mentees to enhance their professional experience through achieving personal and professional goals.
• To encourage student participation, give student/early-career travel awards to attend the Fall Technical Conference. The target is two student and two early-career awards.
• Continue giving student travel awards to the Quality and Productivity Research Conference.
• Continue to co-host a JSM mixer with the Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences and join with other interest groups to reach out to more potential members.

Increasing Nominations for Awards

• Ensure we have a candidate pool for fellow nominations and the Hahn award.

Increasing the Quantity of Invited Session Proposals at Various Conferences

• Advertise for JSM invited session proposals earlier in the year to allow prospective participants more planning time. Provide a clear description of the options for the session if it is not chosen as an invited session.
• Research opportunities to better incentivize (e.g., small travel awards) submissions of invited sessions that choose Q&P as the top sponsoring organization.
• Build a pool of proposals that are not accepted to JSM to consider for other conferences.

Continuing to Improve the Turnover Process for Q&P Executive Committee Members

• Continue to ensure new officers have access to legacy information via an online repository.