ASQ News – January 2011
News from ASQ National that may be of interest to our local membership:
- ASQ Grants Fellow Status to 15 Members. Including two local Quality colleagues:
- Eugene D. Kirsch, Booz Allen Hamilton, Rockville, Md. — For exceptional contributions to the application of standards and quality engineering methods to the management of enterprise quality and risk performance.
- Robert J. Scanlon, Transportation Security Administration, Arlington, Va. — For exceptional effectiveness in the application of quality improvement tools and techniques for performance excellence in the manufacturing, service, and government sectors, and for dedicated service to ASQ through national and section positions and the nation as an examiner for the Baldrige National Quality Award.
- 2012 Candidates for ASQ Office
- ISO 9000 User Survey
- Baldrige Program Safe—For Now
Newsletter
Spring 2010 Education Update
Courses for the Spring Semester have been announced. The classes will be held at the Community College of Baltimore County (Continuing Education and Economic Development).
Course Listing from ccbcmd.edu
The textbook will be the corresponding Primer from the Quality Council of Indiana (http://www.qualitycouncil.com) and will need to be purchased prior to the first class.
If you would like to take any of these courses, please go to the following website to enroll: http://www.ccbcmd.edu/ceed/classes/bus_smallbiz.html
Interested in teaching or have questions regarding these courses or have a particular course you would like to see in the Fall, please email 
ASQ Baltimore (Section 502) Education Committee
Updates to the Certification Exam Schedule
Updates were made to the Certification Exam Schedule page (click on Advancement » Exam Schedule) to see the updates to the rooms for the exam and the maps and links on the page, which has been updated.
If you have any questions, please contact Chief or Assistant Proctor through the Proctor web page, or email: 
Thank you.
Proctor
Updates to the Certification Exam Schedule
Updates were made to the Certification Exam Schedule page (click on Advancement » Exam Schedule) to see the updates to the rooms for the exam and the maps and links on the page, which has been updated.
If you have any questions, please email 
Proctor
Jobseekers Website
If you have not already noticed, there have not only been changes made to the main ASQ Baltimore website, but also the JobSeekers website, now located at http://www.asqbaltimore.org/jobseekers/.
The new website now has a regularly maintained Calendar of Events (Career Fair/Job related) and a new feature where relevant articles regarding various issues surrounding the Job Search are provided for the membership to view. This is in addition to the Job Ads that are continued to be posted when available.
Additionally, the website now maintains a database listing of all of the links that used to be included in the Jobseekers Packet (including training, a large local company list, tips, news, etc). These lists are now computerized and can be displayed in a variety of ways as needed. Additionally, there have been a significant number of updates to the items on the list. The website will also regularly check for broken links, so hopefully the list of links will remain fresh.
The Yahoo Groups that currently maintain the email list of ASQ Balt Jobseekers will continue to function for now, but a new, different subscription system may be implemented in the near future.
If you have any questions, please check out the site and/or email the Placement Chair at 
Thank you
Eric Finegan, Placement Chair
New Senior Members
Congratulations to the most recent 7 members promoted to Senior Membership.
New Senior Members (Section 0502):
* Benson Denise E.
* Desormeaux Brenda
* McAllister Byron Thomas
* Nellum Michelle
* Richardson Evelyn V.
* Saba Clarissa
* Sandleben Dana A.
Examining Committee
Certification Education News
Unfortunately, the classes were all cancelled due low enrollment.
The Education Commmittee has put together a program planned to be held at Community College of Baltimore County-Catonsville in the fall.
* Six Sigma Green Belt Training.
* Manager of Quality/ Organizational Excellence.
* Quality Auditor
Note, if there is not enough interest in the courses, they may be cancelled, so if you are interested, please sign up early.
The current class listing for the three course offered by Community College of Baltimore County-Catonsville are listed on our Education page. For further information, you can go the CCBC course listing webpage for further information.
