The Quality, Statistics, and Reliability (QSR) section is an interdisciplinary section of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), comprised of members from industrial engineering, statistics and business communities from many different countries.

 

The purpose of the QSR Section is to encourage discussion and interaction among individuals having an interest in Quality, Statistics and Reliability research. The bylaws of QSR can be found here.
 

 

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TN Goh, Professor at the National Singapore University, a QSR Advisory Board member, has won the inaugural Walter E Masing Prize of the International Academy for Quality (IAQ) for his latest book: Six Sigma: Advanced Tools for Black Belts and Master Black Belts (by Tang, Goh, Yam and Yeap; Wiley 2006) .  Darek Ceglarek has been elected to the grade of a Fellow of the International Academy for Production Engineering (CIRP; College International pour l'Etude Scientifique des Techniques de Production Mecanique ) head quartered in Paris, France. Ravipim Chaveesuk and Alice E. Smith received the E. L. Grant Award for the Best Paper published in The Engineering Economist, 2006. Their paper is “Dual kriging:  An exploratory use in economic metamodeling”, The Engineering Economist, vol. 50, no.3. 2005, 247-271. Wei Jiang received the 2006 NSF CAREER Award for "CAREER: Data Quality Management through Statistical Quality Control and Data Mining".   Jionghua(Judy) Jin and Yu Ding received the Best Paper Award from IIE Transactions, 2006 for the paper "Online Automatic Process Control Using Observable Noise Factors for Discrete-part Manufacturing," IIE Transactions on Quality and Reliability, Vol. 36, No. 9, pp. 899-911. Jing Li, Jionghua (Judy) Jin, and Jianjun (Jan) Shi received the Best Paper Award from 2006 Industrial Engineering Research Conference for “Causation-Based T2 Decomposition for Multivariate Process Monitoring and Diagnosis”. Lawrence Seiford was named fellow of three societies: Fellow, American Society for Quality (ASQ) Fellow, Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) Fellow, The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). Fugee Tsung is elected as an elected member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI). Shiyu Zhou received the 2006 NSF CAREER Award for "CAREER: Multilevel Self-Improving Variation Modeling and Diagnosis for Complex Manufacturing Processes". archived news...

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