To receive information or to register for ASQ Education Courses and Conferences, contact Education Development and Promotion, ASQ, 600 N. Plankinton Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53203, 800-248-1946, 414-272-8575, fax 414-272-1734, website www.asq.org. For AQP Courses and Conferences, contact AQP at 800-733-3310 or fax 513-381-0070.

MARCH

2-4 11th Annual Conference on Quality in the Space and Defense Industries. Cape Canaveral, FL. Call Lester Lemay at 254-776-3550 or e-mail lesl@sgmeet.com.

3-4 ASQ Education Course. Transitioning to an ISO/TS 16949: 2002 Quality Management System. Nashville, TN.

3-5 QuEST Forum Training. TL 9000 Quality Management System Implementation. Raleigh, NC. Also April 4-7 in New York. Call Excel Partnerships at 800-374-3818 or fax 203-426-7811.

10-11 Six Sigma Seminar With Dale Mize. Faribault, MN. Call Laura Hardy, South Central Technical College at, 507-332-5802 or e-mail hardyl@sctc.mnscu.edu.

10-12 ASQ Education Course. Internal Quality Auditor Training. Dallas.

10-13 Software Test Automation Conference and Expo. San Francisco. Call Software Quality Engineering at 800-423-8378 or e-mail sqeinfo@sqe.com.

10-14 ASQ Conference. 15th Annual Quality Management Division Conference. Phoenix.

10-14 ASQ Education Course. Software Quality Engineering. St. Petersburg, FL.

11-12 ASQ Conference. 10th Annual ISO 9000 and ISO 14000 Conference. Dallas.

11-12 ASQ Education Course. Under-standing and Implementing the International Workshop Agreement (IWA): ISO 9000 Standards Applied to Healthcare Quality Management and Process Improvement. Atlanta.

12-13 ASQ Education Course. Integrating ISO 14001 and ISO 9001. Dallas.

12-13 ASQ Education Course. ISO 9001:2000 Customer Satisfaction Compliance. Dallas.

12-13 ASQ Education Course. Measurement, Data Analysis and Continual Improvement. Dallas.

12-15 5th Annual National Patient Safety Foundation Patient Safety Congress. Washington, DC. Call at 800-321-3690 or e-mail clieser@npsf.org.

13-14 ASQ Education Course. 16-Hour ISO 9001:2000 Lead Auditor Training. (American National Standards Institute-Registrar Accreditation Board accredited.) Dallas.

13-14 ASQ Education Course. Hospital System Failure Mode and Effects Analysis. Orlando, FL.

13-14 Design/Build/Lease/Financing. Kansas City, MO. Call Jack Miller at 800-231-3353 or e-mail jack@jackmiller.com.

17-21 ASQ Education Course. Introduction to Quality Management. Mesa, AZ.

18-20 ASQ Education Course. Implementing and Auditing an ISO 9001:2000 Quality System. Milwaukee.

19-20 The ISO 9001:2000 Course: Making the Transition and Implementing the New Standard. Cleveland. Call ABS Consulting at 301-921-2345 or fax 301-921-0264.

24-25 ASQ Education Course. Project Management for an ISO 9001:2000 Transition. Denver.

24-26 ASQ Education Course. Statistical Process Control. Las Vegas.

24-27 QuEST Forum Training. TL 9000 Quality Management System Auditing. Montreal. Also April 7-10 in Dallas. Call Excel Partnerships at 800-374-3818 or fax 203-426-7811.

24-27 WESTEC Advanced Productivity Exposition. Los Angeles. Call Society of Manufacturing Engineers at 800-733-4763 or e-mail service@sme.org.

24-28 ASQ Education Course. Introduction to Quality Engineering. Denver.

24-28 ASQ Education Course. ISO 9001:2000 Lead Auditor Training. (American National Standards Institute-Registrar Accreditation Board accredited.) Denver.

24-28 Six Sigma Green Belt Training. Chicago. Call Stat-A-Matrix at 800-472-6477 or fax 732-548-4085.

27-28 ASQ Education Course. Quality Audits for Improved Performance. New Orleans.

27-28 Product Safety and Liability Prevention. Milwaukee. Call Randy Goodden at 262-594-5715 or e-mail rgoodden@go.com.

30-April 2 Baldrige National Quality Program 30th Quest for Excellence. Washington, DC. Call Expo Exchange at 301-694-5243 or fax 301-694-5124.

31-April 1 ASQ Education Course. Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (Design and Process FMEA). Atlanta.

31-April 1 ASQ Education Course. ISO 9001: 2000 Transition Training for Internal Quality Auditors. Atlanta.

31-April 2 ASQ Education Course. Advanced Topics in SPC and Short-Run Applications. Atlanta.

31-April 2 ASQ Education Course. Building Software Quality Skills. Atlanta.

31-April 3 ASQ Education Course. Process Improvement Methods and Analysis. Atlanta.

31-April 4 ASQ Education Course. Reliability Engineering. Atlanta.

APRIL

1-2 Internal Auditing of Your Quality Management System: How To Conduct Successful Audits Under the New ISO 9001:2000 Standard. Houston. Call ABS Consulting at 301-921-2345 or fax 301-921-0264.

2-4 ASQ Education Course. Baldrige Award Self-Assessment Training for Education. Atlanta.

3-4 ASQ Education Course. Software Metrics. Atlanta.

3-4 ASQ Education Course. Transitioning to ISO/TS 16949:2002 Second Edition Overview. Atlanta.

5-8 ASQ Conference. 14th Annual ASQ Koalaty Kid Conference. Ottawa.

14-16 Minnesota Quality Conference. Bloomington, MN. Call ASQ's Minnesota Section 1203 at 651-779-1824 or e-mail mnqualconf@aol.com.

15-17 Quality Expo International. Rosemont, IL. Call Reed Exhibitions at 888-267-3794 or fax 732-548-4085.

MAY

1-2 American Productivity and Quality Center Knowledge Management Conference. Houston. Call at 800-776-9676 or e-mail nmickey@apqc.org.

5-7 ASQ Education Course. Statistical Process Control. Charlotte, NC.

5-9 ASQ Education Course. Introduction to Quality Engineering. Columbus, OH.

5-9 ASQ Education Course. Introduction to Quality Management. New Orleans.

5-9 ASQ Education Course. ISO 9001:2000 Lead Auditor Training. (American National Standards Institute-Registrar Accreditation Board accredited.) Phoenix.

5-9 ASQ Education Course. Introduction to Quality Engineering. Columbus, OH.

6-7 ASQ Education Course. Quality Audits for Improved Performance. Columbus, OH.

6-8 19th Annual Automated Manufacturing Exposition and Conference. Greenville, SC. Call Sam Jenkins at 800-553-7702 x16 or e-mail sam@am-expo.com.

12-14 Project IMPACT Conference and Solution Center. Arlington, VA. Call Institute for International Research at 703-807-1294 or e-mail cgoihman@irrusa.com.