ASQ rewards achievements in quality methodology.
Press Release Summary:
ASQ will present 3 Distinguished Service Medals and 10 Society Medals and Awards during its World Conference on Quality and Improvement. Recognized for innovative contributions and achievements in area of quality methodology, recipients include Søren Bisgaard, A. Blanton Godfrey, Noriaki Kano, Paul Batalden, Douglas Beigel, Kanthassamy Senthilmaran, Mohamed Zairi, Jorge Gerdau Johannpeter, Spencer Hutchens Jr., Stephen N. Luko, David W. Bacon, Bradley Jones, and Christopher J. Nachtsheim.
Original Press Release:
ASQ Rewards Achievements in Quality Methodology
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, - ASQ (American Society for Quality) will present three Distinguished Service Medals and 10 Society Medals and Awards during its annual World Conference on Quality and Improvement in St. Louis, Mo., May 23, 2010. The recipients are recognized for their innovative contributions and achievements in the area of quality methodology.
Each individual will be awarded a medal or award during the Annual Business Meeting on Sunday, May 23. For more information about ASQ awards, visit the ASQ Web site at www.asq.org/about-asq/awards/.
Distinguished Service Medals presented to:
Søren Bisgaard - (posthumously) Amherst, Mass., Univ. of Massachusetts-Amherst, Isenberg School of Management
For exceptional service to the quality community by investigating, writing, and teaching statistical methods and their innovative applications for improvement of business and industrial processes, thereby enhancing the quality of management.
A. Blanton Godfrey - Raleigh N.C., North Carolina State University
For a distinguished career of contributions to the quality profession; for establishing broad quality improvement initiatives in healthcare, education, and industry; and for personally demonstrating exemplary quality practice internationally by blending statistical and managerial quality methods.
Noriaki Kano - Tokyo, Japan, Professor Emeritus, Tokyo University of Science
For successfully promoting the cause of quality; for effectively communicating quality principles and teaching quality methods globally; for creatively inventing the theory of attractive quality; and for selflessly serving humankind as one of the dominant thought leaders for Total Quality Management.
Society Medals:
Deming Medal presented to Paul Batalden - Hanover, N.H., Dartmouth Medical School
For his leadership of quality improvement in the healthcare sector, his improvement work as a teacher and physician, and his contributions to improvement of quality of life worldwide.
Edwards Medal presented to Douglas Beigel - Columbia Md., COLA
For improving the internal efficiencies within COLA from complicated, paper-laden processes to streamlined and efficient methods; for developing new products and services that meet the needs of the physician community, medical professionals, and consumers; for offering alternative methods of education and training for the healthcare community; and for his breakthrough management techniques within COLA that will dramatically change COLA and increase its impact in improving the health of people in the world.
Feigenbaum Medal presented to Kanthassamy Senthilmaran - Santa Clara, Calif., CSC
For outstanding contributions to quality by developing a methodology for dashboard metrics by applying the Critical to Quality Process; for demonstrated leadership at the section level and elsewhere; and for professional activities supporting training, mentoring, and service to the quality profession and other societies.
Grant Medal presented to Mohamed Zairi - Keighley, United Kingdom, The European Centre for best Practice Management
For the development of exceptionally meritorious, technologically innovative, and intellectually challenging quality management educational programs at Bradford University European Center for Total Quality Management (United Kingdom) and Hamdan bin Mohamed e-University (United Arab Emirates).
Juran Medal presented to Jorge Gerdau Johannpeter - Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, Gerdau Group
For his entrepreneurial and meritorious leadership of the Gerdau Group; and for his extraordinary vision for and commitment to the development of pervasive culture of quality in Brazil, throughout the Americas, and worldwide.
Lancaster Medal presented to Spencer Hutchens Jr. - Oak Brook, Ill., Intertek
For his inspirational leadership, dedicated personal commitment to the cause of excellence, empathetic respect for the rights of individuals, and exceptional role in vigorous support of the global quality community that hereby recognizes him as the world's finest goodwill ambassador.
Shainin Medal presented to Stephen N. Luko - East Hartford, Conn., Pratt & Whitney
For his work in creating a unique approach to multiple-station manufacturing sampling problems that several companies have subsequently used successfully.
Shewhart Medal presented to David W. Bacon - San Marcos, Texas, Sigma Breakthrough Technologies Inc.
For outstanding contributions to quality in the chemical and process industries through research, teaching, and consulting; and for leadership in education of engineers and scientists in the field of quality and industrial statistics through teaching and administration
Society Awards:
Brumbaugh Award presented to Bradley Jones - Cary, N.C., JMP Division of SAS Institute
For co-authoring the article "Split-Plot Designs: What, Why, and How" published in Journal of Quality Technology, Vol. 41, No. 4, October 2009, pp. 340-361.
Brumbaugh Award presented to Christopher J. Nachtsheim - Minneapolis, Minn., Operations and Management Science Department, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota
For co-authoring the article "Split-Plot Designs: What, Why, and How" published in Journal of Quality Technology, Vol. 41, No. 4, October 2009, pp. 340-361.
ASQ, (The American Society for Quality) www.asq.org, has been the world's leading authority on quality for more than 60 years. With more than 85,000 individual and organizational members, the professional association advances learning, quality improvement and knowledge exchange to improve business results and to create better workplaces and communities worldwide. As a champion of the quality movement, ASQ offers technologies, concepts, tools and training to quality professionals, quality practitioners and everyday consumers. ASQ has been the sole administrator of the prestigious Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award since 1991. Headquartered in Milwaukee, Wis., ASQ is a founding sponsor of the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI), a prominent quarterly economic indicator, and also produces the Quarterly Quality Report.
