

MESSAGE FROM THE EDUCATION CHAIR "$500 Education Gift" Section Members & Honored Eavesdroppers,
While we wait for our new Education Chair, our officers at large would like to make the following points: Our membership meeting this month will be this Tuesday (May 15) instead of our regular second Tuesday. See you this Tuesday. During our meeting this Tuesday, our speaker will be giving attendee's the following: $500 Voucher Gift for Attendence. As a special incentive, Dr. Starling will be giving out $500 vouchers to take the online course Advanced Roadmaps Development for free from the Roadmaps Institute. You must attend the presentation to receive the coupon and the coupon is only valid through December 31, 2007. Advanced Roadmaps Development builds on the Fundamentals of Roadmaps Development course with a strong focus on collaboration methods and techniques. A process appropriately called the ROADMAP Process is presented in detail. ROADMAP is the acronym for Review, Opportunity, Analyze, Develop, Milestone, Authorize and Proceed. Through this process organizations transform their assessments into actionable Enterprise Roadmaps, which integrate divisions and business units. During our next meeting we will have 10 special guests (Dr. Starling's fan club), so be on your best behavior ... please leave your overalls and hip wader boots at home for this one. Current Educational Course Status Several refresher courses are under way including the CSQE, CQE, and CQA. See details on our refresher course page. Unless 10 more people sign up within the next week for this month's workshop on "getting certified", it will be postponed until next month. Watch our workshops page for more information. News From National ASQ Phase II of ASQ Mentoring Program Pilot Launched. How will the mentoring program work? Student and Regular members wishing to become protégés complete the application and identify their top two selections from the mentor profiles on the mentor selection form. Both forms are then submitted to the mentoring program. Protégés will be matched with their top selection, if possible. Introductions will be made and if the relationship is mutually agreed upon, the mentoring experience will begin. Keep Informed With the Probabilistic Technology Community of Practice Probabilistic technology is taking off in new and different directions. How can you benefit from this methodology like the U.S. Army, Air Force, and NASA already have? Join the Probabilistic Technology Community of Practice and find out. It’s free. It’s new. It’s the Probabilistic Technology Community of Practice. Join today! Learn more about ASQ’s newest community of practice at http://www.asq.org/communities/probabilistic-technology/index.html The Certification workgroup is seeking 12 volunteers to participate in a Certified Quality Engineer (CQE) Spanish-Language Cut Score workshop at ASQ headquarters June 22 and 23, 2007. If you are fluent in Spanish (written and oral) and you are a current CQE please submit your résumé to Mary Martin. Each participant will receive 2 RU credits to apply toward recertification. For additional information please e-mail Mary Martin at mmartin@asq.org, or call her at 414-298-8789 x 7746. The Service Quality Division (SQD) is offering the A.C. Rosander scholarship for the 2007-2008 academic year for an eligible member of the Service Quality Division or their family members, or an individual sponsored by an eligible SQD member. The number of scholarships and the amount awarded will be determined on an annual basis by the Scholarship Committee based on the number of applicants. The applicant must be enrolled in an accredited university and submit a completed application by June 1, 2007. The scholarship recipients will be notified by June 15, 2007. For more information, contact Dale L. Morgan, SQD Scholarship Chair, or download the scholarship application. 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. Don't forget to check out our sponsor pages. Great courses and products being offered!! See links at the bottom of this email. Here's some details: I look forward to hearing from you and or seeing you soon,
	Sincerely, Officers at large pending a new Education Committee Chair ASQ Section 0703

FEATURED ARTICLE LINKS

	Share your experiences, term papers, or Quality oriented commentaries with us. Authors needed see author guidelines. This month we are highlighting:

	Tech Sector Salary Evaluation by Hank Posters MS Word (36kb) The average technology worker nationwide earns $75,500. This is 86 percent more than the average wage earned in the private sector. California's tech workers are the highest paid nationwide, averaging $95K.

	Employee Generic Skills Matrix Our friends at HME in Poway Click here for Excel version (633kb) HME recently hosted a Lean round table and tour where the attached file proved to be a shining example of how generic skills / training matrices can be utilized. HME was nice enough to share it with you as well. Send any questions or comments you might have to our webmaster Kim Niles.

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EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS UPDATES

Our section proudly sponsors a variety of educational and professional training

opportunities. See our main education page and our current refresher course training schedule.

Current Exam Dates Schedule

Certification Types and Links to "Body of Knowledge", & Additional Information

Application Deadline

Exam Dates

CQT - Quality Technician
CRE - Reliability Engineer
CMI - Mechanical Inspector
CQM - Quality Manager
CSSBB - Six Sigma Black Belt
CHA - HACCP Auditor
CBA - Biomedical Auditor

Every January and August

Next: August 17, 2007

Then again on:

January 11, 2008

Every March & Oct.

Next is October 20, 2007

Then again on:

March 1, 2008

CQE - Quality Engineer
CQA - Quality Auditor
CSQE - Software Quality Eng.
CQIA - Q Improvement Associate
CCT - Calibration Technician
CSSGB - Six Sigma Green Belt

Every April and October

Next is October 5, 2007
Then again on:

Every June & Dec.

Next is June 2, 2007

Then again on:

December 1, 2007

Upcoming Workshops and Modular Courses

See more information on our 3-hour workshops page.

TOPIC	Taught By	Date	Cost	Contact
"Getting Certified"	Hank Posters and Kim Niles	Wed. May 30, 2007; 5:30-7:30pm; Delta Design in Poway	$39 for two hours; Includes study files and spreadsheets	Hank, Kim, or Jenny
This will be a workshop for anyone interested in any certification. Some instruction will be prepared in case questions aren't asked. Otherwise it will be mostly question and answer. No food will be included. Plenty of parking in upper parking lot.
Our workshop coordinator is looking for speakers, interesting topics, and a meeting location. Contact Jenny Gossett (CQA-CBA), Director of Quality; e-mail: asq703workshop@yahoo.com

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