MESSAGE FROM THE EDUCATION CHAIR

"New Ed Program Starts Aug.7"

Section Members & Honored Eavesdroppers,

We are pleased to announce that National University's Division of Extended Learning will begin the initial offering of the ASQ refresher courses next month at the Rancho Bernardo campus! 

We would like to thank everyone who participated in the survey.  Because of the overwhelming demand, we have decided to start course offerings right away. The courses have been scheduled to align with the ASQ certification exams and will end a few weeks prior to exam dates. Below is the information for the first set of courses.

Course Information: 

• Quality Engineer (CQE) - 4.5 CEUs. Cost: $400. Thursday evenings - from August 7th through November 13th

• Quality Auditor (CQA) - 3.6 CEUs. Cost: $350 Tuesday evenings - from September 2nd through November 18th. 

Both courses will be held from 5:30PM - 8:30PM at the following location: 

National University Rancho Bernardo Campus 

16875 West Bernardo Drive; Suite 150 

San Diego, CA 92127-1675 

Courses are scheduled to align with the ASQ certification exams and will end approximately 2 - 4 weeks before the exam date. 

Registration Information To register, please download the application at: http://k55.nu.edu/resources/NU/collateral/extendedStudies/registration.pdf  

Fill out the application and fax it to (858) 642-8714 or call Customer Service at (858) 642-8600. 

Students are responsible for ordering the required textbook from the Quality Council of Indiana at the following website: http://www.qualitycouncil.com/cm.asp#primers_bm  (Books are listed under Primers) Courses will be offered annually or semi-annually to align with the ASQ Certification Exam Dates. 

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me at dlclinard@cox.net    

Other Announcements

• There will be a new way to sign up for the fall refresher courses coming up in the next Education news letter.

• 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."

• 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, ASQ-CQA & CSQE 

Education Committee Chair

ASQ Section 703

619.466.4007 

This month we are highlighting: 

"Articles Needed"

by ASQ Website

Now is your time to earn CU's and beef up that resume.  Send Kim your articles for publication in our newsletter.  The link above takes you to a web page on our site with author guidelines.  

  "Tool: Organizational Strategy Slides" 

From Dr. Stan Rifkin's July membership meeting talk

(632kb Adobe Acrobat pdf file; reader link at pg bottom)

See more about the meeting at http://www.asqsandiego.org/news/jul08mtgmail.htm#tmm 

This presentation frames quality improvement initiatives in terms of organizational strategy and explains where -- in different strategies -- quality ranks. It also presents how to re-frame quality in terms of what each strategy is trying to optimize. In the speaker's experience, this re-framing remarkably accelerates the adoption of quality initiatives.