Minutes for 12/18 Q&P Conference Call
Attendees: Tom Boardman, Rick Carlson, Lisa Custer, Veronica Czitrom, Fred Faltin, LeRoy Franklin, Eric Lagergren, Tim Robinson, Gwen Stimely, Geoff Vining, Steve Zayac
Agenda:
A. Chair ΚΚΚΚΚΚΚΚΚΚΚ
B. Chair-Elect
C. Past Chair
D. Treasurer
E. Secretary
E.Κ Program-Chair and Chair-Elect
F. Council of Sections Representative
G. Publications Officer
H. Research Conference Chair
I. Continuing Education
J. Newsletter
K. Mary Natrella
L. Webmaster
M. Committee to Nominate Fellows
N. Others?
III. Old Business (Review of Tactical Plan)
A. Require program chair to start web pages for activities.
Responsibility:Κ Cheryl Jennings
B. Develop an email list of Q&P section members and a
process for maintaining the list.
Responsibility:Κ Lisa Custer, Gwen Stimely
Make the
transition to electronic-only proceedings.
Responsibility:
Gwen Stimely
C. Expand CE committee, make sure we have course for JSM 2001, make financial compensation for instructors more attractive:
Responsibility:Κ Tim Robinson, Steve Zayac
D. Six-Sigma Body of Knowledge
Responsibility:Κ Angie Neff
E. How to spend additional Mary Natrella funds
Responsibility:Κ Veronica Czitrom
IV. New Business
V. Schedule Next Conference Call
I. Action Items:
1. (V. Czitrom and L. Franklin) Check with Jeff Hooper about our proposed new relationship with the Fall Techical Conference.Κ Q&P will sponsor 2-3 sessions at the FTC, while the FTC sponsors 2-3 sessions at the Quality & Productivity Research Conference.
2. (E. Lagergren) Set up next Q&P Executive Committee Conference for mid-March
3. (F. Faltin) Set up a conference call for end of February to discuss the Q&P sections role in the new quality landscape proposed by ASQ.
4. (All)Κ Send Fred suggestions on how the Q&P section should respond to the new quality landscape proposed by ASQ.
5. (C. Jennings) Publicize widely the Q&P section's program for the JSM, including the
the Joint Q&P/SPES newsletter, AmStat News, and the Q&P web page.
6. (G. Stimely) Get email list of Q&P Section members from ASA and send an EXCEL version to the Executive Committee.Κ Submit a note in the June Joint Q&P/SPESΚ requesting that members submit their email addresses to ASA, if they have not already done so.
7. (G. Stimely, All) Gwen will request feeder for the AmStat News from the Executive Committee following the timeline in the Q&P manual.
8. (T. Boardman) Follow up with Angie Neff to see where things stand with developing the Six-Sigma Body of Knowledge.
9. (E. Lagergren and L. Franklin) Decide how best to invest surplus Q&P sections funds.Κ One possibility is a donation to the Mary Natrella scholarship fund.
10. (All) Our web page for 2001 officers is incomplete.Κ If your contact information is not there, send it to Ramon.
11. (E. Lagergren and L. Custer) Update the following email lists: 1. Entire Executive Committee and 2. Elected Officers.
II. Officer Reports
1. Chair, Geoff Vining
1.1. Spring Research Conference & ASA. Relationship issues are resolved.Κ We'll get a separate tax ID number and separate non-profit status, which addresses ASA's earlier concerns. Everything else should stay the same.Κ LeRoy believes that ASA will continue to act as our banker.
1.2. Q&P & FTC. We have a tentative new relationship with the Fall Technical Conference. Q&P can have a program chair & sponsor 2-3 sessions at the FTC.Κ Similarly, the FTC folks can have a program chair & sponsor 2-3 sessions at the Quality & Productivity Research conference (QPRC).Κ Veronica & LeRoy are members of the QPRC steering committee and will talk with Jeff Hooper to make sure this is ok with him.Κ If so, we'd implement this for the 2002 conferences.Κ This is a win-win for both conferences, since ASQ members will now have a spring conference to attend, and the Q&P section will attract interest from new ASQ members.
2. Chair Elect, Eric Lagergren
2.1. We have a slate of candidates for 2002. Note that we should give everyone a chance to be active in the section even if they don't win an election.
Necip Doganaksoy, General Electric
Lonnie Vance, General Motors
Christine Anderson-Cook, Virginia Tech
Christina Mastrangelo, Virginia
William Guthrie, National Institute of Standards and Technology
James Simpson, Florida State
Rick Edgeman, Colorado State
Norma Faris Hubele, Arizona State
Scott Kowalski, Central Florida
Mark Vandeven, Nabisco
2.2Κ Eric will set up the next Q&P Executive Committee Conference Call for mid-March.
3. Chair Elect Elect, Fred Faltin
3.1. Relationship with ASQ. We discussed this in a September conference call; we should continue this discussion. Even though ASQ's formal relationship with Six Sigma Academy is being dissolved, ASQ continues to compete with its membership, which has both negative & positive implications. For example, it could be an opportunity to strengthen Q&P membership. Fred will take the lead on this.
* If you have suggestions on how to pursue this issue, send them to Fred.
* Fred will set up a conference call for the end of February to discuss this issue.
4. Treasurer, LeRoy Franklin
We're in good shape. We have $28K, after donating money to the Gordon Research Conference, Mary Natrella fund. Courses at the Joint Meetings were well attended.
5.Κ Secretary, Lisa Custer, No report.
6.Κ Program-Chair and Chair-Elect, Cheryl Jennings and Angie Neff φ No report.
6.1. The program chair should widely publicize the Q&P section's program for the JSM, including the Joint Q&P/SPES newsletter, AmStat News, and the Q&P web page.
7.Κ Council of Sections Representative, Joe Voelkel - No Report.
8.Κ Publications Officer, Gwen Stimely
8.1 All sections have agreed to proceed to electronic procedings on CD-ROM.Κ
8.2 Q&P and SPES have agreed to go to an electronic form of the joint newsletter.Κ Discussion resulted in the email newsletter containing the table of contents of the newsletter and a link to a website that would contain a PDF version of the newsletter.Κ Back issues of the newsletter would be kept at the website.Κ Further action will require a message to go out to the SPES and Q&P membership requesting email addresses, possible in the June newsletter.Κ Gwen will get a list of email addresses of Q&P section members in EXCEL and send this to the Executive committee.
8.3 Q&P has not been publishing much on section activities in the AmStat News.Κ Gwen will solicit feeder for the AmStat News from the Executive Committee following the timeline in the Q&P manual.
9.Κ Research Conference Chair, Jeff Hooper.Κ The Spring Research conference information is on the website (http://www.sematech.org/public/news/conferences/qp2001/index.htm)
10.Κ Continuing Education, Steve Zayac and Tim Robinson.Κ There are 4 continuing education courses planned for 2001.Κ 2 of the abstracts are listed below:
ΚΚΚΚ Presenters:
ΚΚΚΚ Dennis K.J. LinΚΚΚΚΚΚΚΚΚΚΚΚΚΚΚΚΚΚΚ Richard N. McGrath
ΚΚΚΚ Abstract ?ΚΚ Fractional factorial designs are commonly used in
industry to determine what factors have a substantial effect on the mean
response.Κ Quite often, procedures used to identify these factors having
location effects assume homogeneity of variance, i.e. no dispersion
effects.Κ This course will show that not only are dispersion effects of
interest themselves, but that they impact location effect inference causing
complications.Κ Participants will learn how unidentified dispersion effects
impact location effect identification, and how unidentified location
effects impact dispersion effect identification.Κ It will be shown how to
remove the confounding between dispersion and location effects through
partial replication of the experiment or through a newly developed test.
State-of-art techniques will be discussed and employed and participants
will receive software to perform analyses.Κ A basic knowledge of
experimental design (but not necessarily fractional factorials) will be
assumed.
ΚΚΚΚ Presentors:
ΚΚΚΚ G. Rex BryceΚΚΚΚΚΚΚΚΚΚΚΚ Roger HoerlΚΚΚΚ ΚΚΚΚΚΚΚΚΚΚRon Snee
ΚΚΚΚΚ Abstract - A great deal has been a published recently about making
fundamental changes to introductory statistics courses.Κ Much of this
discussion has centered around focusing more on conceptual understanding of
key concepts (statistical thinking), and less on formulas and calculations,
which can now be left to the computer.Κ A key barrier which has been raised
is that instructors would need to devote considerable time to redesigning
their intro courses from scratch, since even the recently revised texts
don't go far enough in the transition from calculations to statistical
thinking.Κ This workshop will present a radically revised course based on
statistical thinking, utilizing a new text published by Hoerl and Snee.
This text is oriented towards a business context, but can be used for other
contexts as well, such as general or engineering statistics.Κ The workshop
will also review results and lessons learned from a recent pilot of the
course at Brigham Young University.Κ Attendees should have experience
teaching introductory statistics.
11.Κ Newsletter, Esteban Walker - No Report
12.Κ Mary Natrella, Veronica Czitrom - Articles were published in Q&P/SPES
newsletter announcing the winners of the Mary Natrella scholarships.Κ The
committee is now requesting applications for the 2001 scholarships.
Information will be included in the newsletter, AMSTAT news and possibly a
letter or email to the academic members of Q&P.
13.Κ Webmaster, Ramon Leon - No Report.
14.Κ Committee to Nominate Fellows, Bill Woodall - Current possible nominations were
discussed and nominating parties will be contacted.
15. Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award, Rick Carlson - MBNQA would like to request that more statisticians participate in the MBNQA process as examiners.Κ Information is on the Q&P website.
III.Κ Old Business (Review of Tactical Plan)
A.Κ Require program chair to start web pages for activities.
Responsibility:Κ Cheryl Jennings
For 2001 and 2002 JSM, would like to have the Q&P programs and speakers posted to
the website prior to the JSM.
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B.Κ Develop an email list of Q&P section members and a process for maintaining the list.
Responsibility:Κ Lisa Custer, Gwen Stimely
Make the transition to electronic-only proceedings.
Responsibility: Gwen Stimely
Discussed already.
C.Κ Expand CE committee, make sure we have course for JSM 2001, make financial compensation for instructors more attractive:
Responsibility:Κ Tim Robinson, Steve Zayac
Courses already discussed.Κ The Q&P section is willing to provide additional financial incentives to instructors to attract courses of great interest to the membership.
D.Κ Six-Sigma Body of Knowledge
Responsibility:Κ Angie Neff
Tom Boardman will follow up with Angie to see where things stand on this.
E. ΚInvesting Q&P section funds.
Responsibility:Κ Eric
LeRoy discussed that the section is a good financial shape and has funds to invest.Κ One possibility discussed was donating money to the Mary Natrella scholarship fund, either in the form of one-time scholarships or to the endowment.Κ Eric and LeRoy will discuss this issue.
IV. ΚΚΚΚΚ New Business
The web page for 2001 Officers is incomplete.ΚΚ If your contact information is not there or is incorrect, send updates to Ramon.
Eric and Lisa need to update the Executive Committee email list to reflect end of the year changes in officers.
V. ΚΚΚΚΚΚ Next Conference Call
Eric will schedule for mid-March