Breakfast Meeting Registration
June Breakfast Meeting – Process Improvement Revisited
Come and enjoy breakfast as we enlighten you on some of the basic techniques of Process Improvement such as Kaizen, Ishikawa, Process flow diagrams, and Pareto Charts, that can be learned and practiced from the convenience of your PC.
Please join us June 14 for Breakfast at ARINC in Annapolis.
Register electronically by emailing Susan Spurgeon at by noon on June 12.
Look for future info on next year’s programs. Watch for details to come!
Do you have ideas for next year’s breakfast meeting for the 2007-2008 Program Year?? Are you willing to host an ASQ Breakfast meeting during the 2007-2008 Program Year?? Contact Jo McLaughlin at .
Thanks to ARINC for graciously hosting and sponsoring ASQ’s June Breakfast Meeting.
Check out all our upcoming events.
Breakfast Meeting Committee
New Senior Fellows
Congratulations to the most recent 18 members promoted to Senior Fellow. New Senior Fellows (Section 502) (2007, Feb – Apr):
* DeGraves, Douglas A.
* Everett, Charles R.
* Fabyan, Rebecca B.
* Howard, Harry H.
* Humenik, Victoria
* Kfuri, Toni E.
* Lentz, Mark William
* Merz, Vincent P.
* Nickel, Daniel J.
* Paolino, Maria Angela
* Schaeffer, Howard J.
* Sisk, James A.
* Sklar, Ian B.
* Stewart, Kimberly C.
* Toalston, Sandra
* Ward, Gordon M.
* Weidmyer, Thomas
* White, Jonathan Edward Barrett
Examining Committee
Maryland Performance Excellence Awards: Call for Examiners
The Maryland Performance Excellence Awards program, which honors organizations working to increase their effectiveness through performance excellence, is accepting applications for examiners in the 2007 awards program. This Baldrige-based program recognizes organizations for performance excellence with the U.S. Senate Productivity Award and Maryland Quality Award.
* Examiners receive valuable training and experience in applying the Criteria for Performance Excellence by reviewing an award application as a member of an Examiner Team.
* Learn how leading organizations achieve performance excellence.
* Gain visibility, credibility and recognition in the state and from your U. S. Senators.
* Develop analytical, consensus-building and systems-perspective skills that can be applied to your organization.
* Must participate in 3 days of training, led by national Baldrige examiners, and commit to spending 100 to 150 hours for pre-work, training, application review individually and as a team member, and writing the final feedback report. Examiners meet with their applicant at the MPEA Conference and Awards Ceremony in April 2008 to provide feedback.
* Being an examiner is the best way to learn the Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence and to develop skills that can be applied in your organization.
* Examiner Applications due: June 15, 2007
Flyer: MPEA: Call for Examiners
Learn more about being an MPEA Examiner at http://www.mpea.umd.edu/examiners.html, email , or call 301-405-7173.
MPEA is a program of the Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute in the A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland. MPEA is supported by U.S. Senators Barbara Mikulski and Benjamin Cardin.
For further information, check out our Calendar page to review the deadlines, look at ASQ Baltimore’s MPEA Information page, or the MPEA home page, http://www.mpea.umd.edu/.
Quality Community – MPEA
Certification Education News
The Education Committee is putting together a program planned to be held at Catonsville Community College in the fall.
* Six Sigma Green Belt Training.
* Manager of Quality/ Organizational Excellence.
* Quality Auditor
The choice of courses was based on the survey results from the March membership meeting.
Watch the main web site and the Education page for updated information.
Education Chair
Meetings of Local Interest
A short list of upcoming meetings that will be of local interest to our membership.
* ASQ Baltimore – May Breakfast Meeting “Breakfast at Tersiguel’s on Main Street in Ellicott City” (17 May, 2007) – see the announcement on the Breakfast page.
* ASQ Washington Software Special Interest Group (SSIG) (Tuesday May 22, 2007) – “The Eclipse Process Framework”
* RAPS Baltimore/Washington Metropolitan Area Chapter (Wednesday, 23 May 2007) – ” Medical Device Recalls – What, When, How and Why – The CDRH Perspective”
* ASQ Baltimore – June Breakfast Meeting (June 14, 2007) – “Using Solitaire for Problem Solving”, ARINC” — watch for updated information.
* QAAM – May Meeting (May 22, 2007) – “Work Breakdown Structures – A Primer” .
Program Committee
Section Board Roster updates
Executive board:
Chair
Eric Whichard
Vice-Chair
No candidates at this time.
Treasurer
Aron Brall
Secretary
Eric Finegan
Other Board / Committee members:
Education Committee Chair
Joan Richter
Membership Committee Chair
Susan Spurgeon
Examining/Recertification Committee Chair
Joan Richter
Breakfast Committee
Jo MacLaughlin
Susan Spurgeon
There are also other multiple (non elected) positions open within the Section.
* Programs Chair / Cmte.
* Arrangements Chair / Cmte.
* Section Management Plan
* Newsletter
* Recognition
* Student Branch Counselor
* Advisor (multiple postions open)
Nominating Committee
Joel Glazer Retiring
Joel Glazer Retiring
June 30, 2007 will be Joel Glazer’s last day in service to the ASQ Baltimore Section Board.
The Board thanks Joel Glazer (ASQ Fellow since 2003) for his service to the Baltimore Section as Examining Committee Chair since July 2004, Program speaker, Senate Productivity and Maryland Quality Awards Examiner, Software Quality Chair and ASQ Region 5 Software Division Councilor.
* Joan Richter () will be taking over Recertification Committee Chair.
* Norm Marceau has taken over ASQ Region 5 Software Division Councilor.
