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• Juran Center Announces Fellows and Doctoral Awards

  - 2006-07-01

  AWARDSThe Joseph M. Juran Center for Leadership in Quality has announced the 2006 Juran Fellows and Juran Doctoral Award winners.Fellows are doctoral candidates selected for their quality related research. They receive $10,000 each to expand their research after graduation. This year's fellows, selected from 22 applicants, were:* Brad Beauvais, Pennsylvania...

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• WELCOME NEW MEMBERS

  - 2006-03-01

  ASABE welcomes the following new members who joined the Society, reinstated a lapsed membership, or upgraded to full membership from student/preprofessional membership from October through January. When available, the member's place of employment has been provided. Please join us in extending a warm welcome to these new and returned members...

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• Reference & User Services Association.(appointments)(Brief Article)

  - 2005-07-01

  The Reference & User Services Association RUSA announced that Diane Zabel is its new president. She will take the office in July. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Currently, Zabel is the Louis and Virginia Benzak Business Librarian an endowed position at the Schreyer Business Library...

  Tags: co-author, librarian, Penn State, Pennsylvania State University, Quality

• Lancaster New Era, Pa., Certification Column.

  - 2004-04-26

  Lancaster New Era, Pa. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 26--Kevin Brandt of Landis Brothers Inc. has earned the turfgrass and agricultural equipment technician certification from Penn State University. Brandt, of 148 Coffee St., Millersville, was a member of the first...

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• A.S.T.M. International. (Industry News).

  - 2003-07-01

  Dr. Donald V. Waddington, professor emeritus of soil science at Penn State University, earned the 2003 Award of Merit and the accompanying title of "Fellow" from A.S.T.M. International. He was honored for his pioneering efforts in establishing international standards for natural playing surfaces. The Award of...

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• Statistical Process Adjustment Methods for Quality Control in Short-Run Manufacturing

  BNET - 2002-08-01

  Process adjustment techniques based on the feedback control principle have become popular among quality control researchers and practitioners, due to the recent interest on integrating Statistical Process Control SPC and Engineering Process Control EPC techniques. This paper focuses on studying sequential adjustment methods, closely related to well-known Stochastic Approximation procedures,...

  Tags: Pennsylvania State University, Quality Control, Adjustment, Quality, Business Operations