** still ongoing
30. V. Czitrom E-mail job description for continuing ed. to Roger and
Lynne
** need to send final version to R. Mason
31. R. Hoerl (re action item 21: T. Boardman. Send note to Lynne/Roger about
home page (missing buttons...)) Contact people who have not responded to Tom's
requests.
** We still need SPES permission to put the joint newsletter on
the Web. R. Hoerl will contact SPES again to verify this is OK, and then
contact R. Leon to contact J. Buckingham.
*** Has been taken of (R. Hoerl, 6/14/96)
36. L. Hare Send a report on "moderated discussions" via E-mail when results
are gotten.
** so far, little luck doing this through NIST. R. Leon
suggested that he will be able to do so at some point with his server.
38. I. Sande Send updated web information to the newsletter
** to be
done
39. I. Sande [slightly modified from last minutes] Ask P. Donnelly to include
a regular sidebar in the newsletter to remind people how to get to the
web
43. T. Boardman Check about ASQC linking to Q&P, and offer
recommendations.
** done. But no response yet. 2nd request out, no response from Webmaster.
*** Have now gotten a response, and are moving on this (R. Hoerl, 6/14)
45. L. Hare Let ASA know that Q&P is using technologies well (home page,
e-mail, and conference calls), by a letter to AmStat News.
** need to do
47. L. Hare As chair-elect, get stationery next year with web address, and write this into chair-elect's job in the operating manual.
48. J. Voelkel Contact I. Sande to send updated web information to the newsletter
49. S. Devlin With AMA, pursue research opportunities for dissemination to Q&P.
50. I. Sande Update R. Hoerl on the status of the Communications Tactical Plan.
51. L. Hare/R. Hoerl Examine list of positions to be filled.
52. V. Czitrom Ask the Q&P Conference board to find someone to edit the global web page
53. All Send ideas to T. Crosby for 1997 JSM invited sessions.
54. V. Czitrom Send the portion of the Q&P Research Conference manual on budget information, and on conference organizers, to S. Devlin.
55. S. Devlin Contact appropriate Q&P Research Conference organizers to handle budget issues and responsibilities (per item 6 of these minutes).
56. All officers and committee leaders. Update your job description by the JSM, and present the update to R. Mason. (E-mail, fax, in person...)
57. L. Hare Find a person to handle the Continuing Education courses for 1997.
58. All Send ideas on a person to handle the Continuing Education courses for 1997 to Lynne.
1. Roll Call - Roger 5 min
2. Update on To-Do's From Last Call - All 15 min
3. Update of the Four Priority Projects for 1996 20 min
-Partnership With ASQC Stat Div - Roger
-Continuing Education - Veronica
-Communication - Tim
-Web/Emerging Technologies - Lynne/Ramon/Tom & Eileen
4. Brief Updates on All Existing Activities 75 min
NOTE: These updates are for communications and to raise any issues, we do
not have time to problem-solve each one. If significant issues arise, we
can schedule another call with interested parties to resolve it. The
following are in pseudo random order:
-Committee to Nominate Fellows - Carolyn Morgan
-Nominations Committee - Lynne Hare
-Q&P Research Conference - Jeff Hooper
-Publications - Steve Zayac
-Membership Committee - Innis Sande
-Newsletter - Pat Donnelly
-96 JSM Program
-97 JSM Program
-Charter Committee - Bob Mason
-Treasurer's Report - Susan Devlin
-Council of Sections Report - Jim Hess and Eileen Boardman
-Update on Q&P Section Meetings at JSM - Roger Hoerl
-Update on Tactical Planning Meeting at JSM - Lynne Hare
-Update on Operating Manual - Bob Mason
-Continuing Education Courses for 97 - Veronica Czitrom and Lynne Hare
5. Schedule Next Call
Item Description Responsibility
1 Update on action items of 3/20/96 conf. call R. Hoerl
24. I. Sande Check with ASA on status of member list being done
with ASA. (ongoing debate on this. Innis will keep Q&P apprised.)
**
done. ASA to assume members agree to be listed unless the member
tells ASA otherwise.** 28. R Hoerl (re action item 17: Discuss
setting up focus group room/audience in Chicago.) Will contact ASA to
get this information now.
** done. ASA to make up poster. ** 29. J.
Voelkel E-mail out any tactical plans that have not yet been
sent.
** done. In previous minutes ** 32. Hoerl Send an update on
the SD project on statistical thinking to P. Donnelly for the Q&P
Newsletter.
** done ** 33. R. Mason Send information on the SD
How-To Series into AmStat News in the next month.
** done ** 34. V.
Czitrom Send abstracts of the CE courses to T. Boardman, for the
home page.
** done ** 35. L. Hare Hold a separate conference call
with R. Leon, T. Read, et al. to discuss what issue to consider in
emerging technologies (e.g. Operating Manual on the home page.)
**
done. See below. 37. L. Hare Consider organizing a break-out
group at the upcoming JSM for web issues
** OK **. 40. R. Hoerl
Send out an early agenda for the 5/23 conference call.
** done ** 41.
R. Hoerl Send copy of Q&P brochure to T. Boardman and R. Leon
[5/1/96, JOV: these have been sent out the Q&P officers and to R.
Leon.] ** done ** 42. R. Hoerl Bring brochures to SD booth at the
AQC and to the Q&P Research conference
** done. Plus some to LH for
Q&P ** 44. J. Voelkel Send out stationery to officers.
** done, for
those who requested it. **
Item Description Responsibility
2 ASQC Stat Division Tactical Plan. Status. Roger Hoerl
"1. Share info on SD projects in AmStat News and the Q&P Newsletter
and home page (along with pointers to Stat Division)." status: an
article on this has been submitted to AmStat News. Still need to send
an update on the SD project on statistical thinking to P. Donnelly
for the Q&P Newsletter. "2. Provide Q&P with access to Stat
Division's How-To Series of books. This information will be
distributed as just described." A listing of the How To's, via R.
Mason, is now on our home page. R. Mason will be getting this
information into AmStat News in the next month. "3. Stat Division to
identify research opportunities, to be disseminated to Q&P." status:
Initial contact made. Still need to identify a person in SD to move
this. 4. Joe Voelkel is the official liaison between Q&P and the Stat
Division. R. Hoerl said that items 1, 2, and 4 have been completed.
For item 3, S. Devlin felt she could be more effective looking for
opportunities in AMA (American Management Association) rather that
through ASQC, since she has more contacts in the AMA. She will pursue
this route.
Item Description Responsibility
3 Continuing Education Tactical Plan. Status V. Czitrom
Nothing new here really. S. Devlin's course at JSM initially went
through the cracks, but is OK now. The plan is to offer C.E. courses
at next year's JSM. One possibility is a course from Jim Filliben at
NIST, who gave a nice EDA talk at the May Q&P Research Conference.
Item Description Responsibility
4 Emerging Technologies T.P. Status L. Hare
Per action item 35, L. Hare held a conference call with T. Boardman,
R. Leon, and I. Sande to discuss what issues to consider in emerging
technologies. They came up with list of 5 items that seemed to be
key. This has been submitted to the newsletter in an article that
requests feedback from Q&P members.
Item Description Responsibility
5 Communications Tactical Plan. Status. Tim Read, Innis Sande
Neither I. Sande nor T. Read were able to be on the conference call.
I. Sande will update R. Hoerl with the plan. Because of T. Read's
extensive international travel, I. Sande will have primary
responsibility.
Item Description Responsibility
6 Brief Updates on Existing Activities. Roger Hoerl
Committee to Nominate Fellows - Carolyn Morgan Other committee
members are R. Lundegard and J Cornell. C. Morgan talked with the
ASA Committee for ideas. The committee needs (a) names of people to
nominate and (b) people to do the work (letters, phone calls, ... )
to push for the work to get done. So far, she is still waiting for a
list of section members and section fellows. Then they will begin the
search for good candidates. In the next newsletter, an article will
explain the existence and purpose of the committee, and will make a
request to submit names. They want names submitted by 12/1 to keep on
time. T. Boardman, as the first chair of this committee, recommended
that candidates' names are kept private to avoid potential
embarrassment. Nominations Committee - Lynne Hare Lynne will review
milestones (in the operating manual). R. Hoerl will contact Lynne to
go down the list of positions to be filled. Q&P Research Conference -
Jeff Hooper L. Hare said the conference was well attended (N=207).
Appears to have been very positive, with an excellent program.
Congratulation to Eric Lagergren and Raghu Kacker. V. Czitrom is the
program chair next year. R. Leon said that an editor is needed to
keep the global page for the conference up to date. (Note--R. Leon is
the Webmaster. Also, the specifics for each year are handled by the
local committee.) V. Czitrom will ask the conference board to find
someone to edit the global page. It was agreed to avoid proceedings
- too much of a hassle. S. Zayac will notify SPES of this, and give
our permission for them to include these talks in their proceedings,
if they are willing to do the work. Publications - Steve Zayac
(reported by Steve in the conference call. The below is based on an
E-mail summary of his report). SPES will contact speakers from the
joint Q&P Research Conference held at NIST to inquire if they'd like
to submit for publication in SPES Proceedings. Speakers will be
advised that this is optional. Q&P policy has been not to publish to
encourage free discussion and allow industry speakers more
flexibility. Next AmStat news submission will include member-focused
summary of our conference call - plus whatever other news get
forwarded to me. New news? Membership Committee - Innis Sande R.
Hoerl said we are advertising the open discussion session on the role
of SPC and DOE in TQM. ASA will advertise this with a poster at the
JSM and will also advertise this in AmStat news. Newsletter - Pat
Donnelly The newsletter was just printed yesterday. 96 JSM Program
96 JSM. R. Hoerl said that R. Mee put Q&P information on the Web
page. 97 JSM Program T. Crosby will be traveling until the end of
June. She's looking for ideas for invited sessions, and has put a
request in the newsletter. The first meeting for the 97 JSM is this
August. The invited session ideas need to be gotten by then. Please
send ideas to Teri soon. Charter Committee - Bob Mason R. Mason will
be reviewing the charter. To be done once each 3 years Treasurer's
Report - Susan Devlin Things are far behind at ASA, due to
new-computer problems. The updated report from last year is not even
available yet. Hard to even get phone calls returned. Per Penny,
recommendations from ASA, only the Treasurer and the Chair can
approve expenses. Also, the Treasurer should be copied on all
approvals made by the Chair. Right now, S. Devlin has no idea of
status of expense this year. R. Hoerl pointed out that this should
not get in the way of conducting business. The Q&P Research
Conference has a separate treasurer, but the money flows through the
Q&P Section. The Q&P Treasurer should be copied on such expenses, but
does not need to give approval. R. Leon emphasize the need for a
prior written agreement with the host site, with an treasurer
independent of the host site, based on his experience at UT. (Having
such an agreement is in the manual for the conference.) L. Hare
pointed out that this year was an exception, since NIST, the host
site, took the financial risk and so kept the excess. S. Devlin will
contact some Q&P Conference organizers to work out the above issues
ahead of time. SD s/she be in contact ahead of time with someone at
the conference. V. Czitrom will get the portion of the Q&P Research
Conference manual on budgets. S. Devlin wants to give a formal
report to ASA in August. Penny has asked for section help in making
improvements. S. Devlin will call back an volunteer the Section's
help The person at ASA who handled section budgets was also
responsible for section lists in the past, but this is no longer so.
As a result, no such lists are being mailed, so there are no checks
here on dues coming in [RH - is this how you read this?]. ASA is
working on it. Council of Sections Report - Jim Hess and Eileen
Boardman (reported by Eileen in the conference call. The below is
based on an E-mail summary of her report). Items from the board of
directors meeting were: 1. Three proposals were passed regarding
continuing education. (1) A new honorarium structure was established
for invited courses to be able to provide more incentive to members
to give highly popular offerings at ASA as opposed to privately. (2)
Fees were increased about 5%. and (3) A new revenue sharing formula
for cosponsored courses provides for a 50/50 split between ASA and
the cosponsoring group of the difference between the individual
course generated fees and the individual course expenses. 2.
Professional opportunities ads will be on the home page. 3.
Electronic publishing issues will be addressed after we get an
electronic editor. 4. The on-line directory will utilize a more
aggressive passive permission approach. Lorraine Denby has the
details. 5. There is a strategic planning committee at work. Their
goal is to provide a 10 year plan for ASA. 6. The 2 board planning
teams for this year are Membership Services and Outreach. Anyone
with ideas please pass them along to any of the board members. Update
on Q&P Section Meetings at JSM - Roger Hoerl Four meeting are
planned. RH is waiting for ASA confirmation on times, which in
general are approved. 1. Annual Tactical Planning Meeting. Sun 8/4
2-6 PM 2. Executive Committee Meeting Tues. 8/6 7-8:30 AM. 3. Open
Business (Members) Meeting, joint with SPES Tues. 8/6 6:00-7:30 PM,
with refreshments (Note: this was originally scheduled for 6:30-8:00.
JOV 6/21/96.) 4. Discussion Section Meeting on SPC and DOE in TQM (I.
Sande) Wed 8/7 8:30-10:20 AM (This time conflicts with a short course
but was the best that could be done...). Update on Tactical Planning
Meeting at JSM - Lynne Hare LH is hoping that 2-6 PM time is solid.
Plan is to follow up on action items form last year's meeting in
Orlando. Also wants to discuss the Web page, hopefully with feedback
from newsletter as mentioned above. Update on Operating Manual - Bob
Mason Each officer and committee leader--update your job description
by the August meetings, so he can revise the manual by the Fall. R.
Hoerl emphasized the importance of doing this job. Continuing
Education Courses for 97 - Veronica Czitrom and Lynne Hare R. Hoerl
asked VC to write up ideas for improvements. LH to find a new person
to do this. T. Boardman said it's a good idea to select the person
prior to the JSM. LH will discuss ideas for names with VC. Doe anyone
have any ideas here?
Item Description Responsibility
7 Schedule next conference call. Roger Hoerl
The next call will be on September 20, 1-2 PM EST. This call is one
of the "short calls".