To receive information or to register for ASQ Education Courses, contact Education Development and Promotion, ASQ, 611 E. Wisconsin Ave., PO Box 3005, Milwaukee, WI 53201-3005, 800-248-1946, 414-272-8575, fax 414-272-1734, Web site www.asq.org. 

November

1-2 Transitioning to ISO 9001:2000. Minneapolis. Call Pathway Consulting at 763-383-6031 or e-mail pathtrack2@aol.com. Also December 12-13, Milwaukee.

3 Advanced Leadership Skills. Dallas. Call Hogan Center for Performance Excellence at 972-406-1976 or fax 972-406-2922. Also November 10, Dallas.

4-8 Pac Rim IV: An International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Glasses. Wailea, Maui, HI. Call American Ceramics Society at 614-794-5890 or fax 614-899-6109.

6-8 ASQ Education Course. Statistical Process Control. Las Vegas.

6-10 ASQ Education Course. Reliability Engineering. Milwaukee.

6-10 ASQ Education Course. Introduction to Quality Engineering. San Diego.

6-10 ASQ Education Course. ISO Lead Auditor Training. Milwaukee.

6-10 Building Continual Improvement: Service Industries and Administrative Areas. Knoxville, TN. Call Statistical Process Controls, Inc. at 800-545-8602 or fax 865-588-9440.

7-8 Transitioning to ISO 9001:2000. Orlando, FL. Call Sunrise Consulting at 919-961-7951 or e-mail thesunrise@mindspring.com.  Also December 6-7, Charlotte, NC.

7-9 ASQ Education Course. Implementing and Auditing an ISO 9000 Quality System. Milwaukee.

7-10 Design of Experiments. Cincinnati. Call Mesa Consulting Group at 513-677-8207 or e-mail sales@mesacg.com. 

13-14 Measurement Uncertainty. Honolulu, HI. Call American Association for Laboratory Accreditation at 301-644-3235 or fax 301-662-2974.

13-14 ASTM Committee E20 on Temperature Management. Orlando, FL. Call ASTM at 610-832-9738 or e-mail fquinzi@astm.org. 

13-15 Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP): A Basic Concept for Food Protection. Davis, CA. Call University Extension of University of California at 800-752-0881.

13-17 ASQ Education Course. Introduction to Quality Management. San Diego.

14-15 Behavioral Science Methods for Quality Improvement: Connecting People and Systems. St. Louis. Call Behavioral Science Technology at 800-548-5781 or fax 805-646-0328.

14-15 Environmental Site Assessment Practices for Commercial Real Estate. New Orleans. Call American Society for Testing Materials at 610-832-9686 or fax 610-832-9668.

14-16 ASQ Education Course. Advanced Topics in SPC and Short-Run Applications. Washington.

27 ISO 9000:2000 Revisions With Jack West. Orlando, FL. Call European Quality Institute at 412-782-3383 or e-mail iso9000x@aol.com. 

28-29 Computer System Validation in FDA-Regulated Industries. Somerset, NJ. Call Validation Associates at 215-504-9635 or fax 215-504-9735.

28-30 Millennium International Conference of the Israel Society for Quality. Jerusalem. Call 972-2-6520574 or e-mail seminars@isas.co.il. 

29-30 Six Sigma Automotive. Dearborn, MI. Call 800-882-8684 or 973-256-0211.

December

1 Microsoft Access 97-Part II: Building a Work Order and Shop Floor Labor Collection System. Atlanta. Call Georgia Institute of Technology Continuing Education Department at 404-385-3502 or e-mail conted@gatech.edu. 

2-7 International Conference on Business Consciousness. Acapulco, Mexico. Call Message Co. at 505-474-0998 or fax 505-471-2584.

3-4 Measuring Employee Satisfaction. Singapore. Call Asia Added Advantage at 65- 4794892 or fax 65-4790468.

4-6 ASQ Education Course. Information Quality Improvement. Washington.

4-7 Quality Audit and Certification. Detroit. Call Society of Manufacturing Engineers at 313-271-1500 or fax 313-271-2861.

4-7 Understanding Industrial Experimentation. Knoxville, TN. Call Statistical Process Controls at 800-545-8602 or fax 865-588-9440.

4-8 ASQ Education Course. ISO 9000 Lead Auditor Training. Nashville.

5-6 ASQ Education Course. Quality Audits for Improvement. Atlanta.

6 6th International Scientific Symposium on Improving Quality and Value of Health Care. San Francisco. Call Institute for Healthcare Improvement at 617-754-4800 or e-mail szepp@metrohealth.org. 

6-9 International Licensing and Strategic Partnering for Today's Technology Manager. Boca Raton, FL. Call Center for Professional Advancement at 732-613-4500 or fax 732-238-9113.

7-8 Linking Visual Measures to Workplace Standards. Dayton, OH. Call University of Dayton Center for Competitive Change at 937-229-4632 or fax 937-229-4666.

11-13 SPC (Statistical Process Control). Marietta, GA. Call Southern Polytechnic State University Center for Quality Excellence at 770-528-7417 or 770-528-7454.

11-14 ASQ Education Course. How To Transition to ISO 9001: 2000. Tampa, FL.

11-15 ISO/QS 9000 Lead Auditor Training Course. Chicago. Call Affiliated Educational Consultants at 773-262-8140 or e-mail hampto9@aecltd.com. 

12-13 Understanding QS-9000. Vandalia, OH. Call Interstate Quality Consultants at 800-450-1387 or fax 937-264-1370.

12-13 ASQ Education Course. Software Metrics. Dallas.

13-14 Measuring Customer Satisfaction. Pasadena, CA. Call California Institute of Technology at 626-395-4045 or e-mail execedu@caltech.edu. 

13-14 ASQ Education Course. ISO 9001:2000 Internal Quality Auditing. Tampa, FL.

21-22 Measuring Customer Complaint. Singapore. Call Asia Added Advantage at 65-4794892 or e-mail cting@singnet.com.sg. 

January

11-12 Reducing Time-To-Market in the Internet Age. Pasadena, CA. Call California Institute of Technology at 626-395-4043 or fax 626-795-7174.

15-17 ASQ Education Course. Baldrige Award Self-Assessment Training for Education. San Diego.

15-19 ASQ Education Course. ISO 9000 Lead Auditor Training. Dallas.

22-26 ASQ Education Course. Introduction to Quality Engineering. Las Vegas.

22-26 ASQ Education Course. Introduction to Quality Management. New Orleans.

29-30 ASQ Education Course. Quality Audits for Improved Performance. Las Vegas.

29-31 Second NSF International Conference on Indoor Air Health. Miami Beach, FL. Call Center for Public Health Education at 734-827-6888 or e-mail raeder@nsf.org. 

30-31 ASQ Education Course. After the Audit: Benefiting From the Audit Process. Denver.