Quality and Productivity

At the 2010 Joint Statistical Meetings in Vancouver, the ASA Section on Quality and Productivity is sponsoring two invited sessions and three roundtable events.
Martha Gardner has organized a session titled “Statistical Engineering: An Idea Whose Time Has Come,” inviting speakers Ronald Snee, Geoff Vining, Bill Parr, and Roger Hoerl. These speakers will discuss how both the profession and those it serves may benefit from transitioning the view of statistics as a pure science to an engineering one. A panel including Douglas Montgomery, Peter Goos, and Rachel T. Johnson was invited by Dana Krueger to provide a discussion, “Future Developments in Experimental Design.”