January 26, 2000



MEMORANDUM


To: Quality and Productivity Research Conference Steering Committee Members

From: Jeff Hooper

Subject: Minutes of the January 18, 2000

Conference Call

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST

Present: Veronica Czitrom, Jeff Hooper, Rita Lai, Paul Tobias, Chelli Zey

Next Meeting: Conference Call

Wednesday, March 29, 2000

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST

Call-in Number: 1-888-559-8422

Access Number: 474-137

Important URLs:

Q&P Section Homepage: http://web.utk.edu/~asaqp/

Attachments:

  1. Agenda for January 18, 2000 Steering Committee Meeting
  2. Agenda for March 29, 2000 Steering Committee Meeting
  3. Steering Committee Member List
  4. Mary G. Natrella Scholarships
  5. JRC2000 Call for Papers and Student Scholarships
  6. JRC2000 Budget, Q&PRC 1998 & 1999 Budgets


Meeting Highlights:

  1. Mary G. Natrella Scholarships

  1. 2000 Conference

  1. 2001 Conference




Number

Action Item

Responsibility

All action items are complete

ATTACHMENT 1


ASA Q&P Research Conference Steering Committee

Conference Call

Tuesday, January 18, 2000 EST

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST

Call-in Number: 888-559-8422

Access Number: 474-137

AGENDA


Time

Agenda Item

Responsibility

2:00 pm - 2:05 pm

Check in and Review of Agenda


All

2:05 pm - 2:15 pm Mary G. Natrella Scholarships

Veronica Czitrom


2:15 pm - 2:40 pm

2000 Conference Plans


Rita Lai


2:40 pm - 2:50 pm

2001 Conference Plans


Paul Tobias


2:50 pm - 2:55 pm

2002 Conference Plans


Bill Hill


2:55 pm - 3:00 pm

Other Business


All


3:00 pm

Adjourn

ATTACHMENT 2


ASA Q&P Research Conference Steering Committee

Conference Call

Wednesday, March 29, 2000

2:00 - 3:00 EST

Call-in Number: 888-559-8422

Access Number: 474-137

AGENDA


Time

Agenda Item

Responsibility

2:00 pm - 2:10 pm

Check in and Review of Agenda


All

-

2:10 pm - 2:30 pm

2000 Conference Plans


Rita Lai


2:30 pm - 2:45 pm

2001 Conference Plans


Paul Tobias


2:45 pm - 2:55 pm

2002 Conference Plans


Bill Hill


2:55 pm - 3:00 pm

Other Business


All


3:00 pm

Adjourn










ATTACHMENT 3

ASA Quality & Productivity Research Conference

Steering Committee Members

Updated: December 8, 1999


Name

Address

Telephone/Fax

Email

Jeff Hooper - Chair


Lucent Technologies

Room D3B48

283 King George Road

Warren, NJ 07059


T - 908-559-3026

F - 908-559-2119


jhooper@lucent.com

Rita Lai


777 Quality Engineering Technology

Boeing Commercial Airplanes

PO Box 3707, MS OX-54

Seattle, WA 98124-2207


T - 425-342-8527

F - 425-294-3878


rita.a.lai@boeing.com
Bill Hill Allied Signal/Honeywell William.J.Hill@AlliedSignal.com

Ramon Leon


Dept. of Statistics

College of Bus. Admin.

University of Tennessee

331 Stokely Mgmt. Ctr.

Knoxville, TN 37996-0532


T - 423-974-1636 (W)

F - 423-974-2490 (W)

T - 423-691-5622 (H)

F - 423-691-5622 (H)


rleon@utk.edu

Paul Tobias


SEMATECH

2706 Montopolis Drive

Austin, TX 78741-6499


T - 512-356-7876

F - 512-356-7876


paul.tobias@sematech.org

Chelli Zey


SEMATECH

2706 Montopolis

Austin, TX 78741


T - 512-356-7141

F - 512-356-7640


chelli.zey@sematech.org
Tom Sager University of Texas tom.sager@eus.utexas.edu

ATTACHMENT 3


ASA Quality & Productivity Research Conference

Past Steering Committee Members

Updated: December 8, 1999


Name

Address

Telephone/Fax

Email

*Veronica Czitrom


Lucent Technologies

9333 S. John Young Parkway

Orlando, FL 32819


T - 407-371-7402

F - 407-371-6990


czitrom@lucent.com

Lisa Gill


NIST

NN, Room 353

Gaithersburg, MD 20899


T - 301-975-4516

F - 301-990-4127


lisa.gill@nist.gov

John Heitmann


Corning, Inc.

HP-ME-03-079

Corning, NY 14831


T - 607-974-6299

F - 607-974-8007


heitmann_jw@corning.com

*Tim Keyes


GE Co.

Bldg K1, 4C29A

PO Box 8

Schenectady, NY 12301


T - 518-387-6789

F - 518-387-5714


keyes@crd.ge.com

Eric Lagergren


NIST

NN, Room 353

Gaithersburg, MD 20899


T - 301-975-3245

F - 301-990-4127


eric.lagergren@nist.gov

Dennis Lin


Pennsylvania State University

Smeal College of Bus. Admin.

Dept. of Mgmt. Science & Info Syst

314 Beam Bus. Admin. Bldg.

University Park, PA 16802-1913


T - 814-865-0377

F - 814-863-2381


lin@stat.bus.utk.edu (Internet)

DKL5@psuvm.psu.edu (Bitnet)


Dan McCarville


Motorola, Inc.

Sensor Products

Signal Products Div.

5005 E. McDowell Rd.

Phoenix, AZ 85008


T - 620-244-3990

F - 602-244-5738


rvag60@email3.sps.mot.com

Doug Montgomery


Arizona State University

Dept. of Industrial Engrg.

Tempe, AZ 85287-5906


T- 602-965-3836(W)

F - 602-965-2910(W)

T/F - 602-496-9908


atdcm@asuvm.inre.asu.edu

*Angie Neff


GE Co.

Bldg K1, 4C33A

PO Box 8

Schenectady, NY 12301


T - 518-387-6239

F - 518-387-5714


neffa@crd.ge.com

James White


Eastman Chemical Co.

Building 284

P.O. Box 1973

Kingsport, TN 37662-5284


T - 423-229-6607(W)

F- 423-229-4880(W)

T- 423-239-9361 (H)

F- 423-239-7239 (H)


jrwhite@eastman.com

jrwhite@ilinkgn.net


*Ai-Chu Wu


Ph.D. Statistical Consulting

2019 Crimson Lane

Santa Rosa, CA 95403

T- 707-570-2611 (W)

T- 707-526-6449 (H)


aichuwu@aol.com

Nick Zaino


Eastman Kodak Co.

Quality Tech. & Applied Statistics

Quality Assurance Svcs, Div

Bldg 6, 7th Floor

Kodak Park

Rochester, NY 14652-3401


T - 716-722-2399

F - 716-722-4415


nzaino@kodak.com


















ATTACHMENT 4


From: czitrom,veronica[SMTP:orvc@orntsrv103.micro.lucent.com]

Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2000 4:05 PM

To: 'mwest@acesag.auburn.edu'; 'wwoodall@alston.cba.ua.edu'; 'geethar@saclink.csus.edu'; 'jnorton@gauss.sci.csuhayward.edu'; 'jernigan@american.edu'; 'smythe@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu'; 'rrandles@stat.ufl.edu'; 'wcaldwell@gw.unfledu'; 'dli@iastate.edu'; 'jcryer@stat.uiowa.edu'; 'bhogg@stat.uiowa.edu'; 'pourahm@math.niu.edu'; 'kolaczyk@galton.uchicago.edu'; 'hedayat@uic.edu'; 'kruscio@uky.edu'; 'luis@stat.lsu.edu'; 'wierman@brutus.mts.jhu.edu'; 'kushler@oakland.edu'; 'geisser@stat.umn.edu'; 'basu@stat.missouri.edu'; 'solomon@pams.ncsu.edu'; 'aparkhur@unlinfo.unl.edu'; 'aparna@math.unm.edu'; 'bruce@orie.cornell.edu'; 'dvoss@euler.math.wright.edu'; 'dirk@sbm.temple.edu'; 'jpl@stat.cmu.edu'; 'jlr@stat.psu.edu'; 'spurrier@milo.stat.sc.edu'; 'dnn@math.odu.edu'; 'haugh@uvm-gen.emba.uvm.edu'; 'lata@uwyo.edu'; 'jboyer@stat.ksu.edu'; 'bwilson@gw.unf.edu'; 'jon-lemke@uiowa.edu'; 'lacher@mg.sdstate.edu'; 'rothman@stat.ksu.edu'

Cc: hooper,jeffrey h; 'rita.a.lai@boeing.com'; 'andrew.j.booker@boeing.com'; arka@us.net; boardman@lamar.colostate.edu; carroll.croarkin@nist.gov; enatrell@lawlan.cn.ci.nyc.ny.us; kk@math.cudenver.edu; LeRoy.A.Franklin@Rose-Hulman.Edu; vining@vt.edu

Subject: Mary G. Natrella Scholarship

Hello everyone,

The Quality and Productivity section of the ASA has just established the

Mary G. Natrella Scholarships. Two students who are interested in quality

will be awarded $1000 scholarships to attend the annual Quality and

Productivity Research Conference, which this year will be held in Seattle,

Washington on June 26-28, 2000.

Could you please advertise the scholarships as extensively as possible at

your university? You can post the scholarship description given below, and

announce it in classes. The January 2000 issue of Amstat News has

additional information on page 47, in the Q&P Section News.

Thanks a lot, and best regards,

Veronica Czitrom

Lucent Technologies Bell Labs Innovations

9333 S. John Young Parkway

Orlando, FL 32919

(407) 371-7402

czitrom@lucent.com

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

ATTACHMENT 4

MARY G. NATRELLA SCHOLARSHIP

FOR SEATTLE QUALITY CONFERENCE

Veronica Czitrom

The Quality and Productivity section has established the endowed Mary G.

Natrella Scholarship Fund to award two students interested in Quality with

$1,000 each to attend the yearly Q&P Research Conference.

This year's QPRC will be held in Seattle, Washington on June 26-28, 2000.

It will be held jointly with the Spring Research Conference on Statistics in

Industry and Technology, sponsored by the SPES section of the ASA and by the

IMS, as the Joint Research Conference on Statistics in Quality, Industry,

and Technology. The joint conference will be hosted by The Boeing Company

on the campus of the University of Washington. The theme of the conference

is Statistical Methods for the New Millennium. Additional conference

information is available at http://www.boeing.com/jrc2000, or by contacting

Rita Lai at rita.a.lai@boeing.com, or Andrew Booker at

andrew.j.booker@boeing.com.

Master's and doctoral students interested in Quality can apply for a Mary G.

Natrella scholarship to attend the conference in Seattle. Women and master's

level students are especially encouraged to apply. The scholarship money

covers conference registration, conference workshops, housing, meals, and

transportation.

To apply for a scholarship, a professor should nominate a promising student

through an email application to czitrom@lucent.com. The student should

provide a short application (around one page long) which includes a

statement of professional goals and courses that support interest in Q&P.

The student's application should include a paragraph from the supporting

professor. Students from the Seattle area are NOT eligible for the Mary G.

Natrella Scholarship, since they can apply for the scholarships provided by

the QPRC (see the conference web site).

The Mary G. Natrella Scholarship applications should be submitted on or

before February 29, 2000. Scholarship winners will be notified by the end

of April. For additional information, please contact Veronica Czitrom at

czitrom@lucent.com, or at (407) 371-7402.

The Mary G. Natrella Fund Committee was formed at the Joint Statistical

Meetings in Baltimore last August. The committee members are Veronica

Czitrom (chair), Karen Kafadar, Carroll Croarkin, Eileen Boardman, and LeRoy

Franklin (Q&P Treasurer).

ATTACHMENT 5

From: booker@redwood.rt.cs.boeing.com[SMTP:booker@redwood.rt.cs.boeing.com]

Sent: Friday, January 21, 2000 6:06 PM

Subject: JRC2000 Call for Papers and Student Scholarships

Call for Papers

Joint Research Conference on Statistics in Quality, Industry and

Technology (http://www.boeing.com/jrc2000.)

The 17th Quality and Productivity Research Conference and 7th Spring

Research Conference on Statistics in Industry and Technology will be

held jointly at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, June

26-28, 2000.

Call for Contributed Papers:

Abstracts for contributed papers must be sent to Thomas Tosch

(thomas.j.tosch@boeing.com) by February 15, 2000. Submission is by

ASCII email using an IMS template

(http://www.boeing.com/special/jrc2000/template.htm or

http://www.stat.uconn.edu/~ims/abstracts/instruct.html). We encourage

submittals by graduate students. Up to six student scholarships of

$300 will be available to cover registration and local expenses.

Recipients will be selected based on submitted abstracts and their

adherence to the conference theme. If you wish to be considered for a

student scholarship, please so indicate with your submitted abstract.

More information can be found at http://www.boeing.com/jrc2000.

Conference Goal:

The goal of the conference is to stimulate interdisciplinary research

among statisticians, engineers, and physical scientists in quality and

productivity, industrial and technology needs, and the physical and

engineering sciences. The conference will emphasize research and

development driven by important applications, and will look to

identify new application areas where statistics can have a significant

impact. The conference will feature presentations by scientists and

engineers for statisticians and presentations by statisticians for

scientists and engineers.

Technical Program:

The technical program of the conference is in development and will

include invited and contributed papers. The invited program currently

includes a follow-up session on Six Sigma from the very successful

1999 Q&P Research conference sponsored by General Electric, and

sessions on methods for analyzing large (real-time) data sets,

monitoring multivariate control charts and dynamical systems,

experimental design for dispersion effects, factor screening and

response surface exploration, computer experiments, statistics in

aviation safety, measurement systems analysis for two- and

three-dimensional data, statistical issues in the testing of military

ATTACHMENT 5

systems, statistical challenges in computational biology and

chemistry, methods for univariate and multivariate calibration, and

risk analysis transportation statistics. Plenary speakers include

David Heckerman from Microsoft Research and Geoffrey Vining from

Virginia Tech.

Short Course:

Experiments: Planning, Analysis, and Parameter Design Optimization

Instructor: Professor C. F. Jeff Wu, University of Michigan

This one-day course will be based on the book (with the same title) by

Jeff Wu and Mike Hamada which will be published by John Wiley in March

of 2000. The short course notes (based on the book) will be made

available to the participants. This book contains many new methods not

found in existing textbooks, and covers more than 80 data sets and 200

exercises. The new tools covered include robust parameter design, use

of minimum aberration criterion for optimal factor assignment,

orthogonal arrays of economic run size, analysis strategies to exploit

interactions, experiments for reliability improvement, and analysis of

experiments with non-normal responses. The course will cover basic

tools and illustrate them with data from real experiments. There will

be time reserved for questions and discussions. More information will

be avialable at the JRC2000 web site http://www.boeing.com/jrc2000.

An ASA sponsored LearnSTAT course on June 29, 2000:

"Designing and Using Customer Satisfaction and Relationship Surveys"

by Susan Devlin. More information at

http://www.amstat.org/education/designsurvey.html

Further Information: Additional information about the program,

registration, and local arrangements will appear in Amstat News, the

IMS Bulletin or at the JRC2000 web site at

http://www.boeing.com/jrc2000. Conference co-chairs are

Andrew Booker

The Boeing Company

P.O. Box 3707 MS 7L-22

Seattle, WA 98124-2207

425-865-3573

FAX# 425-865-2966

andrew.j.booker@boeing.com

and

ATTACHMENT 5

Rita Lai

The Boeing Company

P.O. Box 3707 MS 0K-07

Seattle, WA 98124-2207

425-342-8527

FAX# 425-294-3878

rita.a.lai@boeing.com

Sponsors:

The conference is jointly sponsored by ASA/Q&P, ASA/SPES, and IMS and

will be hosted by The Boeing Company and held on the campus of the

University of Washington.

************************************************************

MARY G. NATRELLA SCHOLARSHIP

FOR SEATTLE QUALITY CONFERENCE

Veronica Czitrom

The Quality and Productivity section has established the endowed Mary

G. Natrella Scholarship Fund to award two students interested in

Quality with $1,000 each to attend the yearly Q&P Research Conference.

This year's QPRC will be held in Seattle, Washington on June 26-28,

2000. It will be held jointly with the Spring Research Conference on

Statistics in Industry and Technology, sponsored by the SPES section

of the ASA and by the IMS, as the Joint Research Conference on

Statistics in Quality, Industry, and Technology. The joint conference

will be hosted by The Boeing Company on the campus of the University

of Washington. The theme of the conference is Statistical Methods for

the New Millennium. Additional conference information is available at

http://www.boeing.com/jrc2000, or by contacting Rita Lai at

rita.a.lai@boeing.com, or Andrew Booker at andrew.j.booker@boeing.com.

Master's and doctoral students interested in Quality can apply for a

Mary G. Natrella scholarship to attend the conference in

Seattle. Women and master's level students are especially encouraged

to apply. The scholarship money covers conference registration,

conference workshops, housing, meals, and transportation.

To apply for a scholarship, a professor should nominate a promising

student through an email application to czitrom@lucent.com. The

student should provide a short application (around one page long)

which includes a statement of professional goals and courses that

support interest in Q&P. The student's application should include a

paragraph from the supporting professor. Students from the Seattle

area are NOT eligible for the Mary G. Natrella Scholarship, since

they can apply for the scholarships provided by the QPRC (see the

conference web site).

ATTACHMENT 5

The Mary G. Natrella Scholarship applications should be submitted on

or before February 29, 2000. Scholarship winners will be notified by

the end of April. For additional information, please contact Veronica

Czitrom at czitrom@lucent.com, or at (407) 371-7402.

The Mary G. Natrella Fund Committee was formed at the Joint

Statistical Meetings in Baltimore last August. The committee members

are Veronica Czitrom (chair), Karen Kafadar, Carroll Croarkin, Eileen

Boardman, and LeRoy Franklin (Q&P Treasurer).









ATTACHMENT 6


From: Lai, Rita A[SMTP:Rita.Lai@PSS.Boeing.com]

Sent: Friday, January 21, 2000 12:18 PM

To: Ai-Chu Wu; Angie Neff; Chelli Zey; Jeffrey Hooper; Paul Tobias; Ramon Leon; Tim Keyes; Veronica Czitrom; 'Ilaria, Elayne M (Elayne)'; 'Rob Easterling'

Subject: Joint Research Conference budget


Hello everyone,

Here is the revised budget, Rob, Jeff, you already have it but I was too lazy to take you of the distribution list.

<<JRC_2000_Budget.XLS>>

Please note that the budget has been adjusted so that we will need 15 registered students to cover the costs. Our web page should be updated with vast amounts of new information some time early next week. The bank account issues have been resolved. Thanks for all of your input and support!

Best regards,

Rita Lai

777 Quality Engineering Technology

Boeing Commercial Airplanes

P.O. Box 3707, MS 0K-07

(425) 342-8527

rita.a.lai@boeing.com