To receive information or to register for ASQ Education Courses, contact Education Development and Promotion, ASQ, 600 N. Plankinton Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53203, 800-248-1946, 414-272-8575, fax 414- 272-1734, Web site www.asq.org.

NOVEMBER

Oct. 31-Nov.2 ASQ Education Course. Internal Quality Auditor Training. (American National Standards Institute/Registrar Accreditation Board accredited.) Orlando, FL. Also Dec. 11-13, Las Vegas.

1-2 ASQ Education Course. Customer-Supplier Partnerships: An Introduction. Baltimore.

4-8 The 13th American Symposium on Quality Function Deployment (QFD). Baltimore. Call QFD Institute at 734-995-0847 or e-mail qfdi@qfdi.org.

5 Calibration and Control of Measurement Systems. St. Paul, MN. Call Excel Partnership at 800-374-3818 or fax 203-426-7811.

5-6 ASQ Customer-Supplier Division Conference. Louisville, KY. E-mail Jeff.Jaswa@AkzoNobel. com or visit www.asqcsd.org.

5-6 Jack Miller Seminar on Total Quality Management. Chicago. Call Group Communi cations at 800-231-3353 or fax 281-530-2505.

5-8 ASQ Education Course. Software Quality Engineering. Las Vegas.

5-8 12th World Productivity Congress 2001. Hong Kong. Call Cindy Lui at 852-2788-5830 or fax 852-2788-6056. Also Nov. 9-10, Beijing.

5-8 Advanced Topics in Statistical Process Control. Knoxville, TN. Call Statistical Process Controls at 865-584-5005 or fax 865-588-9440.

5-9 ASQ Education Course. ASQ-Plexus Trainer/Coach Training. Orlando, FL.

5-9 Successful Six Sigma Part Three (Four-part series one week a month for four months). Cincinnati. Call Mesa Consulting Group at 513-677-8207 or e-mail info@mesacg.com.

5-9 Comprehensive ISO 9001:2000 Course. Cincinnati. Call International ISO Group at 513-742-7500 or fax 513-851-5881.

5-9 ASQ Education Course. Reliability Engineering. Dallas.

6-9 Product and Process Design Improvement Using the Taguchi Approach. Detroit. Call Nutek at 248-540-4827 or e-mail rkroy@wwnet.net.

7-9 ASQ Education Course. Performance Consulting. Atlanta.

7-9 Joint Commission Re sources' (JCR) 2001 National Conference: Promoting Quality and Patient Safety Across the Health Care Continuum. Chic ago. Call JCR at 630-792-5800 or e-mail helpdesk@infomart.ca.

8-9 ASQ Education Course. 16-Hour ISO 9001:2000 Lead Auditor Training. (American National Standards Institute/ Registrar Accreditation Board accredited.) Milwaukee.

12-14 Project Management Seminar: Managing Project Risk. Madison, WI. Call University of Wisconsin-Madison Executive Education at 800-292-8964 or fax 608-441-7325.

12-14 Software Testing in the Real World. Scottsdale, AZ. Call Software Quality Engineering at 904-278-0707 or fax 904-278-4380.

12-15 The 39th Annual Reliability Engineering and Managment Institute. Tucson, AZ. Call University of Arizona at 520-621-2495 or fax 520-621-8191.

12-16 5th International Software and Internet Quality Week Europe Conference. Brussels, Belgium. Fax 415-550-3030 or e-mail qw@soft.com.

12-16 ASQ Education Course. Introduction to Quality Engineering. San Diego. Also Dec. 10-14, Orlando, FL.

12-16 ASQ Education Course. Introduction to Quality Management. Las Vegas. Also Dec. 10-14, Scottsdale, AZ.

12-16 ASQ Education Course. ISO 9001:2000 Lead Auditor Training. (American National Standards Institute/ Registrar Accreditation Board accredited.) Las Vegas. Also Dec. 3-7, St. Petersburg, FL.

12-16 Lean Boot Camp. San Antonio. Call Elena Johnson at 800-924-2517 or e-mail recruiting office@leanbootcamp.cs.com.

13-14 Current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) and Quality Issues for Biopharmaceuticals. Boca Raton, FL. Call Center for Professional Advancement at 732-613-4500 or fax 732-238-9113.

13-14 ASQ Education Course. Training Fundamentals. Orlando, FL. Also Jan. 24-25, Las Vegas.

14-15 ASQ Education Course. After the Audit: Continual Improvement From the Audit Process. Phoenix.

15 Advanced Highly Accelerated Life Test (HALT) and Highly Accelerated Stress Test (HAST) Applications. Boston. Call Hobbs Engineering at 303-465-5988 or fax 303-469-4353.

26-29 ASQ Education Course. Advanced Topics in Statistical Process Control and Short-Run Applications. Orlando, FL.

DECEMBER

4 Integrating ISO 14000 and QS-9000. Dayton, OH. Call Inter state Quality Consultants at 800-450-1387 or e-mail iqc@iqcinc.com.

5 Perspectives on Quality. Seattle. Call GMB Partnership at 509-968-9805 or e-mail gmbp@elltel.net. Also Dec. 12, Seattle.

6-7 ASQ Education Course. How To Transition to ISO 9001:2000. Phoenix.

9-12 13th Annual National Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care. Orlando, FL. Call Institute for Health care Improvement at 888-320-6937 or fax 617-754-4848.

11-12 ASQ Education Course. ISO 9001:2000 Internal Quality Auditing. San Diego.

11-12 ASQ Education Course. Registrar Accreditation Board Approved ISO 9001:2000 Transition Training From Registrar Accreditation Board Certified Quality Management System Auditors. Las Vegas.

11-12 ASQ Education Course. Reliability Engineering. Dallas.

11-12 ISO 9000:2000 Standards: Revision and Implementation. Houston. Call ABS Consulting at 301-921-2345 or fax 301-921-0373.

16-18 6th International Conference on Manufacturing Technology. Hong Kong. Call Chiang Industrial Charity Foundation at 852-2574-0298 (HK) or e-mail cicfinfo@hkstar.com.

18 One-Day Executive Retreat Covering the Integration of Six Sigma, Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) and Lean. Estes Park, CO. Call SigmaPro at 970-207-0077 or fax 970-207-0078.

JANUARY

14-15 The Memory Jogger II: Seven Quality Control Tools Using Data for Fact-Based Decision Making. Orlando, FL. Call GOAL/QPC at 800-643-4316 or e-mail service@goalqpc.com.

15-16 ASQ Education Course. Implementing ISO 14000. Orlando, FL.