Recent News

• CALL FOR PAPERS: The First International Symposium on System Informatics and Engineering, July 11-13, 2011, Qingdao, China.
• CALL FOR PAPERS: The annual International Conference on Manipulation, Manufacturing and Measurement on the Nanoscale (3M-NANO), Aug 29 - Sept 2, 2011, Changchun, China.
• CALL FOR PAPERS AND SESSIONS: The seventh annual IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (IEEE CASE 2011), August 24-27, 2011, Trieste, Italy.
• CALL FOR PAPERS: 8th International Conference on Reliability, Maintainability and Safety, July 21-25, 2009, Chengdu, China
• CALL FOR PAPERS: Quality Technology & Quantitative Management.
• Jing Li and Judy Jin received the Best Paper Award for the paper, "Optimal sensor allocation for system abnormality detection by integrating causal models and set-covering algorithms," from the Quality Control and Reliability track at the Industrial Engineering Research Conference (IERC) 2008.
• Chiwoo Park won First Prize for Best Student Paper at the IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE) 2008. Chiwoo's advisor is Yu Ding.
• PhD candidate Li Zeng received the Richard S. and Harriet K. Fein Scholarship from the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin - Madison. Li's advisor is Shiyu Zhou.
• TN Goh, Professor at the National Singapore University, a QSR Advisory Board member, has won the inaugural Walter E Masing Prize of the International Academy for Quality (IAQ) for his latest book: Six Sigma: Advanced Tools for Black Belts and Master Black Belts (by Tang, Goh, Yam and Yeap; Wiley 2006) .
• Darek Ceglarek has been elected to the grade of a Fellow of the International Academy for Production Engineering (CIRP; College International pour l'Etude Scientifique des Techniques de Production Mecanique ) head quartered in Paris, France.
• Ravipim Chaveesuk and Alice E. Smith received the E. L. Grant Award for the Best Paper published in The Engineering Economist, 2006. Their paper is "Dual kriging: An exploratory use in economic metamodeling", The Engineering Economist, vol. 50, no.3. 2005, 247-271.
• Wei Jiang received the 2006 NSF CAREER Award for "CAREER: Data Quality Management through Statistical Quality Control and Data Mining".
• Jionghua(Judy) Jin and Yu Ding received the Best Paper Award from IIE Transactions, 2006 for the paper "Online Automatic Process Control Using Observable Noise Factors for Discrete-part Manufacturing," IIE Transactions on Quality and Reliability, Vol. 36, No. 9, pp. 899-911.
• Jing Li, Jionghua (Judy) Jin, and Jianjun (Jan) Shi received the Best Paper Award from 2006 Industrial Engineering Research Conference for Causation-Based T² Decomposition for Multivariate Process Monitoring and Diagnosis.

Archived News

• Lawrence Seiford was named fellow of three societies: Fellow, American Society for Quality (ASQ) Fellow, Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) Fellow, The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).

• Fugee Tsung is elected as an elected member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI).

• Shiyu Zhou received the 2006 NSF CAREER Award for "CAREER: Multilevel Self-Improving Variation Modeling and Diagnosis for Complex Manufacturing Processes".

• Yong Chen and Jionghua (Judy) Jin received the Best Paper Award for the IIE Transactions focus issues on Quality and Reliability in 2003-2004.

• Marion R. Reynolds, Jr. and Zachary G. Stoumbos received The 2004 Brumbaugh Award for the largest single contribution to the development of industrial application of quality improvement, ASQ.

• Zachary G. Stoumbos was elected a lifetime fellow member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI). Zachary G. Stoumbos received The 2005 Most Innovative Research Award, Rutgers Business School, Rutgers University.

• William H. Woodall, Rachelle Koudelik, Kwok-Leung Tsui, Seoung Bum Kim, Zachary G. Stoumbos, and Chris P. Carvounis received The 2003 Jack Youden Prize for the best expository paper in Technometrics, ASA and ASQ.

•  C. F. Jeff Wu, Coca Cola Chair Professor at Georgia Tech, the Chair of QSR Advisory Board, was elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in 2004.

• Professor Judy Jin, our Council Member, received a Presidential Early Career Award for Science and Engineering (PECASE) at a White House ceremony. The PECASE award recognizes Judy as one of the top 20 NSF Career Award winners for the year.

• Dr. Fugee Tsung and Dr. Dan Apley have received the Best Paper Award for the IIE Transactions focus issues on Quality and Reliability for 2002-2003.

• Faculty Positions Available -- School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

• A New QSR Career Corner was Added

• QSR section in the IFORS Triennial 2005 Conference in Honolulu, Hawaii on July 11-15 2005

• Call for Presentation: INFORMS 2004 Annual Conference in Denver, CO, Oct. 24-27, 2004

• Quality, Statistics, and Reliability Cluster Call for Sessions and Presentations (Deadline: March 31 2004).
• QSR Special issue call for papers (Deadline: May 1 2004).

• Call for Participation: 2004 QSR Best student paper competition(Deadline: August 10 2004).
• QSR Best Student Paper Contest Rules .