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Kim Niles

Please contact me with any calendar related submissions, questions, or comments. Also see: Don's '02 Quality Conference Photos, past year events, or our officer's calendar.

Current Upcoming Local Professional Events
Every Month: About the 1st of the month: Meeting E-News Sent Usually the 2nd Tuesday: San Diego Section 703 Membership Meeting Usually the 2nd Wednesday: Palomar Section 708 Membership Meeting About the 15th of the month: Education based e-newsletter sent Typically every Thursday: Refresher courses Often the 3rd Tuesday: IIE- Institute of Industrial Engineers SD Meeting Usually the 4th Tuesday: Soc. for Software Quality SD Meeting January 2010: Jan 12-14. Lean Enterprise Institute will hold a series of one and two-day workshops in San Diego on Jan 12-14.Click on the San Diego block to see the list of workshops - http://www.lean.org/Workshops/WorkshopCalendar.cfm. Every January: See recurring monthly events at top of page February 2010: Every February: MathCounts competition in San Diego among local schools put on by local societies. Our ASQ SD section has donated $250 to this event to purchase prizes for the kids that are competing. See http://www.mathcounts-ca.org/sandiego.htm or contact Ken Discenza at sitedesign@cox.net. February 11-13, 2010: UCSD Design of Experiments Course (Course Code: AMES-40165) February 11-13 2010 http://extension.ucsd.edu/studyarea/index.cfm?vAction=singleCourse&vCourse=AMES-40165&vStudyAreaId=9 February 19, 2010: National Engineers Week. NEW 08 Awards Banquet. Contact kim.niles@cox.net (Kim Niles) for more information or see http://www.new-sandiego.org/ Sponsored by the San Diego County Engineering Council (SDCEC). Hosted by University of San Diego (USD) Joan Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice (KIPJ) USD Department of Engineering. Every February: See recurring monthly events at top of page March 2010: March 6, 2010. Upcoming March CMMI course in San Diego. Click here for more information. March 2010: ASQ Lean Six Sigma Conference March 2010 Phoenix Learn from proven firsthand applications, technical applications, and best practices in the concurrent sessions. The 2010 conference will also feature networking and learning opportunities from sponsors and exhibitors from a variety of markets addressing various levels of experience. For more information www.asq.org/conferences Every March: See recurring monthly events at top of page. April 2010: April 23?: UCSD TRIZ Class - 3 day April 25-28, 2010: NAPM San Diego - ISM International Supply Management Conference Every April: AeA Spring tech mixer. Every April: BE WiSE Program (Better Education for Women in Science and Engineering) http://www.sdsa.org/BEWiSE and includes activities for young Women. Every April: See recurring monthly events at top of page May 2010: May 14 & 15?: Project Management Institute annual conference ... see www.pmi-sd.org May 16: The 3rd SABPA Entrepreneur Symposium ... register online at www.sabpa.org May 24-26 (every May): ASQ World Conference on Quality & Improvement http://wcqi.asq.org/ Every May: Section Officer Dates: May 1 - Deadline to submit elected section officers to HQ. May 16 - Member Leader Events at the World Conference. May 17-20 - Annual Business Meeting and the World Conference. Every May: See recurring monthly events at top of page June 2010: June xx: Del Mar Fair Opens Every June: Section Officer Dates: June 27 - Section Leader Training, Knoxville, Tenn. Contact Linda Milanowski. Every June: See recurring monthly events at top of page. July 2010: July xx: Pathfinder Communication 3-day course-July 10. (all Fridays) 8:30 am to 4:30 pm all three days The full course (all 3 days) is $325 per attendee. The instructor provides the materials. For more information or call 858-245-9802. See more and sign up at http://www.pathfindercommunication.com/services.cfm Every July: See recurring monthly events at top of page August 2010: Every August: See recurring monthly events at top of page September 2010: Every September: See recurring monthly events at top of page October 2010: Every October, 2009: INCOSE San Diego Mini-Conference. Please send your reservation to Ed Andrews at eaphoto2@earthlink.net ... please rsvp prior to 10/15. Every October: Surface Mount Technology Association (SMTA), SD Conference: See http://www.smta.org/chapters/chapters_detail.cfm?chapter_id=7 Every October: See recurring monthly events at top of page November 2010: Every November: See recurring monthly events at top of page December 2010: Every December: See recurring monthly events at top of page
Other Related Tech Org & Society Links
Organization	Association	National Website & Contact [last update 10/09]
ASA	Acoustical Society of America	http://asa.aip.org/
ACEC	American Council of Engineering Companies (formerly CELSOC)	http://www.celsoc.org/
ACerS	American Ceramic Society	http://www.ceramics.org/ Also see IMAPS
AIAA	American Institute of Astronautics and Aeronautics	http://www.aiaa.org/
AIChe	American Institute of Chemical Engineers	http://www.aiche.org/
AITP	Association of IT Professionals
AME	Association for Manufacturing Excellence	Jerry Wright http://www.ame.org
ANS	American Nuclear Society	http://www.ans.org/
APICS	American Inventory & Control Society	Sonia Farace - jmfarace@san.rr.com ; see www.apics-sd.org/
ASNT	American Society for Non-Destructive Testing	http://www.asnt.org/
ASCE	American Society of Civil Engineers	http://www.asce.org/
ASHRAE	American Society of Heating and Refrigeration Engineers	http://ashrae.org/
ASM	The Materials Information Society	http://www.asm-intl.org/
ASME	American Society of Mechanical Engineers International	www.asme.org
ASNE	American Society of Naval Engineers	http://www.navalengineers.org/
ASNT	Am.Soc.Non-destructive Testing	ASNT SD
ASP	Association of Strategic Planning
ASTD	ASTD - Testing and development (HR)
ASQ	American Society of Quality	http://www.asq.org/
ASSE	American Society of Safety Engineer	http://asse.org/
AFCEA	Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Assoc.	http://www.afcea.org/
ACM	Association of Computing Machinery	http://www.acm.org/
AEE	Association of Energy Engineers	http://www.aeecenter.org/
AFE	Association of Facility Engineers	http://www.afe.org/
APEM	Association of Professional Energy Managers	http://www.apem.org/
AWS	Association of Women in Science	http://www.awis.org/
CSPE	California Society of Professional Engineers	http://www.cspe.com/
CSI	Construction Specifications Institute	http://www.csinet.org
CELSOC	Consulting Engineers & Land Surveyors of California
DiscoverE	Discover Engineering	www.discoverengineering.org
FCA	Forensic Consultants Association
IESNA	Illuminating Engineering Society of North America	http://www.iesna.org/
IEEE	Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers	http://ieee.org Also see IMAPS
IIE	Institute of Industrial Engineers	Lenny Perry (laperry@sandiego.edu) or see http://www.iiesd.org/ http://www.iienet.org/
ITE	Institute of Transportation Engineers	http://ite.org/
ISA	Instrumentation Systems and Automation Society	http://www.isa.org
INCOSE	International Council on Systems Engineering	http://www.incose.org/ Mark Halverson - mark.halverson@ngc.com ; see San Diego INCOSE or http://www.imaps.org/
IMA	IMA - Institute of Management Accountants
IMAPS	International Microelectronics and Packaging Society	"SD Chapters" formed with International Microelectronics And Packaging Society (IMAPS) - http://www.imaps.org/; American Ceramic Society(ACerS) - http://www.acers.org/ ; IEEE-Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology (IEEE/CPMT) - http://www.cpmt.org/ and www.sdieee.org
IMC	The Institute of Management Consultants	Mike Barney CMC at imc.sd.rsvp@gmail.com Interested in membership contact Tim Rhine at imc.sd.rsvp@gmail.com
ISPE	International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineers	http://www.ispe.org/cs/san_diego_chapter_section/san_diego_chapter_home
MARS	The San Diego Mars Society	http://MarsSanDiego.org
MATHCOUNTS	MATHCOUNTS (also see SDCEC)	Ken Discenza at sitedesign@cox.net. www.mathcounts.org
NACE	National Association of Corrosion Engineers	http://www.nace.org
NAPM	National Association for Purchasing Management (NAPM)
NEW	National Engineers Week	www.eweek.org
OSA	Optical Society of America	http://www.osa.org/
PDMA	Product Dev. Managers Assoc.	www.pdmasocal.org
PMI	Project Management Institute	For more information, go to http://www.pmi-sd.org
RAPS	Regulatory Affairs Society
RMS	Reliability Maintainability and Supportability Partnership	Marty Sherman, Department Chair Life Cycle Logistics; Defense Acquisition University - West at (619) 524-4807 or email at martin.sherman@dau.mil http://www.rmspartnership.org/
SDBDC	The San Diego Biotechnology Discussion Group	Leo Lee www.sd-biotech.org and http://www.sd-biotech.org/meeting.htm
SDCEC	San Diego County Engineering Council	Ken Discenza at sitedesign@cox.net See Mathcounts and NEW
SCS	Society for Modeling Simulation International	http://www.scs.org/
SAMPE	Society for the Advancement of Material & Process Engr	Contact Ralph or Brett at Ralphecarson@aol.com ; brett@butlersunsolutions.com http://sampe.org/
SAE	Society of Automotive Engineers	www.sae.org
SDAA	The San Diego Astronomy Association	http://www.sdaa.org/Events#SP
SDSG	San Diego Speakers Guild	http://www.meetup.com/San-Diego-Speaker-s-Guild/
SDRAN	San Diego Regulatory Affairs Network	RSVP with Mary Wilhelm, VP Membership, SDRAN, P.O. Box 927595; San Diego, CA 92192-7595, e-mail: wilhelm_mary@yahoo.com or Jody Surowiec e-mail: jodysuro@hotmail.com or Joyce Williams, our President Elect, at jwilliams0628@sbcglobal.net. www.sdran.org.
SOCE	Society of Concurrent Engineering	http://www.scpdnet.org/
SFPE	Society of Fire Protection Engineers	http://www.sfpe.org
SHPE	Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers	http://www.shpe.org/
SOLE	Society of Logistics Engineers	http://www.sole.org/
SME	Society of Manufacturing Engineers	http://www.sme.org
SMTA	Surface Mount Technology Association	Normal location: Holiday Inn Express 5925 Lusk Blvd, San Diego 92121, CA jlucas@elgar.com
SAME	Society of Military Engineers	http://www.same.org
SCLN	Southern California Lean Network	Combining AMA, ASM, and others. Are you interested in hosting a So Cal Lean Network benchmarking event at your facility? Contact Jerry Wright by e-mail at Jerry.Wright@djortho.com or at 760-734-5690.
SCPD	Soc. of Concurrent Product Dev.	SCPD
SDSIC	SD Software Industry Council	SDSIC
SSQ	Society for Software Quality	RSVP: news@ssq.org
STCE	Society of Telecommunication Engineers	http://www.scte.org
SAVE	Society of Value Engineers	http://www.value-eng.org/
SWE	Society of Women Engineers	http://www.swe.org/
SEA	Stuctural Engineers Association of California	http://www.seaoc.org/
TA (former AeA)	Tech America (formerly American Electronics Association)	RSVP to Susana Capulong, Program Manager; Tel: 858.452.9288 x100; Susana_Capulong@aeanet.org http://www.aeanet.org
Other tech / prof. development society calendars in San Diego:	ASQ San Diego Linked-in Discussion Group ... see http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1234957 National ASQ Master Calendar ASQ Service Quality Division in SD: Email Johanna Vaught aqedallas2@aol.com , phone: 858-779-9270 for information or email to Membership Chair, Paul Tanner, pkt-asq@hotmail.com , or phone: 425-867-4560. ASQ Biomedical Division, Southern California Discussion Group: Karen Liu at (858) 909-1973 / e-mail kliu@nuvasive.com or Carole White at (760) 918-7327 / email carole.white@respironics.com ASQ Six Sigma Division, Region 7 Discussion Group: Contact Dean dean.deeds@boeing.com to sign up or join the related linked in group at http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2028128 ASQ - Temecula Valley: more here soon ASQ - Tijuana: more here soon Other Calendar Pages: isixsigma.com Events InsideQuality.com ISSP Quality Calendar Statgraphics Quality/Stats Calendar American Quality Mall Calendar APQC Region 7 events page Biocom's near daily calendar page at: http://www.biocom.org/event/ HAAMAHA/Ergon-Axia/TIES Freshnews tech. event cal. SOCALTech SCPD - Soc. of Concurrent Product Dev. SDRTA - San Diego Regional Technology Alliance Toastmasters Escondido Chambers 5529 Other ASQ Sections Find other section calendars via http://www.asq.org/sections/ ASQ section list via Quality org ASQ Stat Division Calendar Other Nearby Section Meetings: Sect. 708 Palomar, Sect.709 Ventura, Sect.702 San Gabriel, Sect.711 Riverside, San Fernando, Sect.701 Orange County, Sect.700 Los Angeles, Sect. 706 San Fernando Valley, Sect.704 Phoenix, Sect.707 Tucson, Sect.705 Las Vegas
Other Local Calendars:	Port of San Diego Calendar City of SD Special Events Calendar San Diego Tech Calendar Holiday Calendar North County Calendar of Events Del Mar Fairgrounds Events Calendar
Non-local Technical Societies:	A consortium based supply management portal at www.LeanSCM.net. American Association of Engineering Societies (www.AAES.org) Cal State Hayward - Extension (www.extension.csuhayward.edu) Lean SCM, LLC (www.LeanSCM.net) International Service Quality Association (ISQA) AQP Cal Council for Quality and Service

Points in History

Taking Away the 'C' In 1997, ASQC drops "Control" from its name, becomes ASQ, and formally adopts a new mission to promote performance excellence in a broad range of organizations and activities worldwide.

Why groups of societies join forces:

to support community outreach (or the illusion of community outreach?).
to promote their own society special events
to build their memberships through exposure to other professionals and possibly media coverage in the area.
for society leaders to network
to facilitate joint meetings
to build up a pool of speakers
to produce one or more meeting per year on a grander scale than any one society is able to produce (NEW?; http://www.newsd.org)
to produce one or more community outreach projects on a grander scale than any one society is able to produce (scholarships?)
to benchmark best practices specific to our San Diego area
to jointly develop member valued tools such as a jobs board.
what else? ... email kim.niles@cox. net

Thoughts From IIE

Building a network at meetings is a smart way to increase the return you get from making the time to be involved in your favorite society. Here's five benefits of a well-develop network:

Your creativity is increased. When you talk to your business buddies, you get other points of views. By seeing the world from different perspectives, your mind gets stimulated and new ideas are often born.
You can solve problems with more ease. Whether challenged by finding better marketing, developing more efficiency or dealing with difficult bosses/employees, odds are someone in your chapter has had a similar experience.
You can have a support team. In this era of great change and time shortage, it’s nice to know that you are not alone.
You have access to other’s best practices. Best practices can help you cut cost and increase productivity. Make a habit of talking with your network about the most valuable thing they’ve learned and what works well for them.
You’ll be able to accomplish more in less time. Having a diverse network creates a variety of minds for you to tap for answers – answers that might take you lots of time to find on your own! Become a resource in your expertise for your other chapter buddies and they will do the same for you.