General

Honors and Awards

1. Fellow, American Statistical Association
2. Fellow, American Society for Quality Control
3. Fellow, Royal Statistical Society
4. Fellow, Institute of Industrial Engineers
5. Elected Member, International Statistical Institute
6. ASU Outstanding Doctoral Mentor Award, 2004.
7. Shewell Award, 2001. Given by the Chemical and Process Industries Division of the ASQC for the best technical paper at the ASQC/ASA Fall Technical Conference, 2000.
8. Shewhart Medal, 1997. Awarded by the American Society for Quality Control for Outstanding Technical Leadership in the Field of Modern Quality Control.
9. William G. Hunter Award, 1996. Given by the Statistics Division of the American Society for Quality Control. This award is given for excellence in technical innovation and in the integration of statistics with other disciplines.
10. Brumbaugh Award, 1994. Given by the American Society for Quality Control for the best paper in a journal of the Society.
11. Shewell Award, 1993. Given by the Chemical and Process Industries Division of the ASQC for the best technical paper at the ASQC/ASA Fall Technical Conference, 1992.
12. Ellis R. Ott Award, 1992. Given by the Ellis R. Ott Foundation for the best paper on quality engineering during a two-year period.
13. Invited Keynote Address, "The Industrial Engineer and the Quality Improvement Sciences: Have We Missed an Opportunity ?", 8th Israeli Industrial Engineering Research Conference, Beer Sheva , Israel , May 1994
14. W. J. Youden Memorial Address, "A Perspective on Models and the Quality Sciences: Some Challenges and Future Directions", presented at the 42nd Annual ASQC/ASA Fall Technical Conference October 1998.
15. Inyong Ham Distinguished Lecturer, Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, "Statistical Methods for Process Robustness Studies", November 11, 1999 .
16. Invited Keynote Address, "Experimental Design for Process and Product Design and Development" Royal Statistical Society, Glasgow Scotland , 11 September 1998 .
17. Invited Keynote Address, "The Future of Industrial Statistics", South African Statistical Association Annual Meeting, University of the Witswaterstrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, 10 November 2000.
18. Invited Keynote Address, "Some Opportunities and Challenges for Industrial Statisticians", Industrial Statistics in Action 2000, conference at the University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, United Kingdom, 8-10 September, 2000.
19. Isobel Loutit Invited Plenary Address on Business and Industrial Statistics, "The Modern Practice of Statistics in Business and Industry", 33rd Annual Meeting of the Statistical Society of Canada, Halifax, NS, 8-11 June 2003. This was the inaugural Isobel Loutit Address.
20. Invited Keynote Address, "Statistics and Statisticians in Today's Business World", Royal Statistical Society Conference on Business Improvement through Statistical Thinking, 21-22 April 2004, Coventry, UK.
21. Invited Keynote Address, "Statistics and the Transformation of Science, Business and Industry", 5th Annual ENBIS Conference, University of Newcastle, Newcastle-Upon-Tine, UK, 14-16 September, 2005.
22. Testimonial Award from the Board of Directors of the American Society for Quality Control, 2000, for Leadership and Distinguished Service as Chair of the Brumbaugh Award Committee from 1996-2000.
23. Testimonial Award from the Board of Directors of the American Society for Quality Control, 1998, for Leadership and Distinguished Service as Editor of the Journal of Quality Technology, 1994-1997.
24. Pritsker Award - Annual Teaching Award, Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering, Arizona State University, 1997
25. University Distinguished Visitor, University of Manitoba, Fall, 1994.
26. Distinguished Alumnus, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech (Awarded 1994).
27. College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Arizona State University, Teaching Excellence Award (Graduate), 1994.
28. Pritsker Award - Annual Teaching Award, Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering, Arizona State University 1994.
29. Anderson Teaching Award, Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering, Arizona State University, 1993.
30. Pritsker Award - Annual Teaching Award, Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering, Arizona State University, 1992.
31. Engineer of the Year, 1987, Puget Sound Engineering Council.
32. Industrial Engineer of the Year, 1986, Puget Sound Region Institute of Industrial Engineers.
33. Alpha Pi Mu/AIIE Outstanding Teacher Award, School of ISyE, Georgia Tech, 1976-1977.
34. Listed in Who's Who in the American South and Southwest, American Men and Women of Science, Who's Who in Engineering.
35. Phi Kappa Phi
36. Sigma Xi
37. Alpha Pi Mu
38. Mu Rho Sigma (Honorary Member, Va. Tech Chapter 1995)

Consulting Experience

Extensive consulting assignments involving projects with over 100 organizations. General area of professional experience focused on engineering applications of statistics and operations research methods. Projects have involved design of experiments and response surface methods, implementation of statistical process control, process development including characterization and optimization, time series analysis and the design of forecasting systems, empirical model building, and the design and analysis of physical distribution systems. Specific industry experience includes semiconductors and elect ron ics, medical devices, biotechnology, consumer products, chemical and process industries, aerospace, and the service industries. Some consulting clients include Pfizer, Procter and Gamble, Intel, Motorola, AT&T, Boeing, IBM, The Coca-Cola Company, Lucent Technologies, Dial Corporation, Dow Chemicals, Amoco, Georgia-Pacific, Monsanto Chemicals, Hercules, Alcoa, and Eli Lilly.