MESSAGE FROM THE EDUCATION CHAIR

"Pre-clinics Are a Hit!"

Section Members & Honored Eavesdroppers,

This month's section meeting successfully experimented with reinstating pre-clinics prior to our regular meetings, after about a 10 year hiatus ... or did it?  

While the pre-clinic was a hit this month, it was taught by a real professional who discussed his latest publication and even tossed in a story or two about his personal experiences with Deming and Juran.  So while it seemed to be a hit, it will be a hard act to follow.  Can we keep up the momentum?

Some advantages of pre-clinics in theory include:

• to allow members to share personal techniques, stories, case studies of how they've used related models, methods, and tools, etc.

• to allow members to gain twice as many re-certification units per meeting

• to double the potential of members finding meetings worth attending.

• to improve hands-on, more active participation  

• to allow students to share term papers while soliciting feedback from industry 

• to allow members to build public speaking skills, key to our profession as quality professionals and facilitators

• ... and the list goes on

While I'm sure we can twist the arm of one of our officers to speak at the last moment, please help yourself and our membership by preparing a short 15-30 minute talk on a quality topic (may include slides or a handout).  Contact Abe or Kim if you have any questions or can help.  

Current Educational Course Status

• Several new courses are now just being offered (CQI, CQA, CQM/OE, and Stats for CQE and CSSBB).  See details on our refresher course page.

Other Announcements

• Several new jobs have recently been posted on our jobs page.  In addition, we have recently split that page into two pages in order to facilitate printing and upload speed.  See http://www.asqsandiego.org/jobs.htm and keep sending them in.  

• Note that we now have two new sponsors (SDSU and Progressive Edge).  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: 

Be Careful What You Measure

by Jim Cochran, Section 708 Member

(26kb Pdf file; reader link at page bottom)

This is a student paper written for a quality measurement class in support of a Masters Degree in Quality Science from CSUDH.  The premise of the paper is that collecting and reporting the wrong metrics can have unintended consequences for an organization.

QFD Worksheet

by an anonymous member

(42kb MS Excel Document)

• Click here to download the file 

This document was recently released on ASQ's Six Sigma forum.  If you join the forum you can find other related tools as well.  Note that there are three sheets.  The first two sheets are used to populate the matrix on the third sheet.