The 62nd Annual ASA/ASQ Fall Technical Conference (FTC) was held October 4–5 in West Palm Beach, Florida. The conference generated a great deal of interest, with the most contributed abstracts received for consideration in recent years and a large number of new participants.
Quality and Productivity
Q&P Section Highlights Topic-Contributed, Contributed Sessions
The Quality and Productivity section is sponsoring topic-contributed and contributed sessions at the Joint Statistical Meetings this year.
Two Selected for Natrella Scholarship
The Quality and Productivity Section will award Mary G. and Joseph Natrella scholarships to Anh Bui and Xiaowei Yue. Natrella Scholarship winners are chosen for their outstanding teaching, community service, mentoring, leadership, scholarship, and commitment to the pursuit of quality improvement through the use of statistical methods.
Quality and Productivity Section News for May 2018
The Quality and Productivity Section will offer one invited session and two roundtable discussions at JSM 2018.
Quality and Productivity Section News for March
The ASA Q&P Section’s 2017 Quality and Productivity Research Conference (QPRC) will be hosted by the University of Connecticut and held in Storrs from June 13–15. The theme of this year’s conference is “Quality and Statistics: A Path to Better Life.”
Quality & Productivity Section News for February
The 2017 Quality and Productivity Research Conference will be hosted by the University of Connecticut (UConn) and held in Storrs June 13–15.
Quality and Productivity News for January
Incoming Chair Ming Li discusses the opportunities for Q&P members to lead and contribute to the fast-growing trend of data-driven and analytics-backed decision making processes across many industries.
Call for Papers: Fall Technical Conference
The 2017 Fall Technical Conference will be held at the Sheraton Society Hill in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 5–6, 2017. The deadline for abstract submissions is February 28, 2017.
Quality and Productivity Section: A Note from Outgoing Chair William Brenneman
The outgoing Quality and Productivity Section chair notes how the section participated in a number of conferences in 2016. The section is also sponsoring the Q&P research conference and calling for abstract submissions.
Quality and Productivity Section News
News from the Quality and Productivity section of the ASA in the November issue of Amstat News.