MESSAGE FROM THE EDUCATION CHAIR

"TRIZ Class Report"

Section Members & Honored Eavesdroppers,

Before I start, we are past due for securing our slate of officers for next year.  We need candidates to fill the Chair position.  Please contact our chair if you can help or want to nominate someone else.  The new slate of officers begin their posts July 1, 2008.  

Since TRIZ is becoming more of a quality discipline, I asked Kim Niles to report on a three day class he took at UCSD on the subject earlier this month.  Here's his report:

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Our three day course was taught by Dr. Ellen Domb whose expertise is in structured creativity, called TRIZ.  She a guru on the subject and so managed to help us all master 8 of the 50 tools that were originally developed in Russia after studying millions of patents and realizing that there are the same patterns used over and over.

I could tell you a lot more but it sounds better coming from her so I invite you all to 

listen to an approximately 15minute pod cast of her at http://delphigroup.blogs.com/dan_keldsen/2007/01/innovation_grow.html.

Ellen is the President of The PQR Group and a founding board member and Judge for the California Council on Quality and Service. She is a charter member of the Quality Function Deployment Institute, co-founder of The TRIZ Institute, and the founder and current editor of The TRIZ Journal, http://www.triz-journal.com 

Her academic background ranges from Stanford University's Executive Management Program to a Ph.D. in physics from Temple University and a bachelor's degree from MIT. 

If you are interested in taking a course from her, UCSD will be offering the same class again in November.  I recommend that anyone interested in becoming more creative, or in helping others become more creative attend her class.  

Also don't miss the tool and article archives links below as well as the article we already have published on our site at http://www.asqsandiego.org/articles/triz.htm. 

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Current Educational Course Status

• The CSQE, CQE and CQA refresher courses are also underway with over 20 students in each.  See details on our refresher course page.     

Other Announcements

• The San Diego Quality Conference committee is in need of volunteers.  Please contact our Chair Doug McCloskey if you are a member who can help out. 

• Our section research project with the San Diego County Office of Emergency Services in an effort to address the repetitive problem of wildfire in San Diego needs more volunteers.  Contact our chair Doug McCloskey. The commitment is about 2 hours per month. Additionally, committee members receive 0.125 Recertification Credits per month for being on the committee.  Please contact Doug McCloskey at dm@grantrothbard.com  for further info and to join the committee."

• New rates for early RSVPs for membership meeting are $5.00 Discount plus 1 extra raffle tickets.  Also that another color of the ticket will be given to people who are eating dinner. Early RSVP's are considered more than one week before the meeting.  

• Several new jobs have recently been posted on our jobs page at http://www.asqsandiego.org/jobs.htm ... and keep sending them in.  

• Don't forget to check out our sponsor pages.  Great courses and products being offered!!  See links at the bottom of this email.   

• Don't forget to check out other local events on our local event calendar. 

Sincerely,

Dave Clinard 

Education Committee Chair

ASQ Section 0703 

This month we are highlighting: 

12 years of monthly TRIZ articles

by Dr. Ellen Domb  

(The articles are embedded in the monthly journals)

Dr. Ellen Domb is the President of The PQR Group and the founder and current editor of The TRIZ Journal, http://www.triz-journal.com 

  "Tool: TRIZ Contradiction Matrix" 

by www.Triz40.com and Dr. Ellen Domb

(link to their site)

One of the 50 tools of TRIZ is a contradiction matrix.  The link above takes you to www.triz40.com  which is a mechanized version of that matrix.  It works to create ideas for all types of Engineering, industries, service or mechanical types of situations as long as you keep your mind open regarding the answers it gives you.