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.

AUGUST

4-5 ASQ Education Course. ISO 9001:2000 Customer Satisfaction Compliance. Milwaukee.

4-6 ASQ Education Course. Implementing and Auditing an ISO 9000 Quality System. Milwaukee. Also Sept. 8-10, Dallas.

4-8 ASQ Education Course. Black Belt/ Quality Engineering Statistics. Milwaukee.

4-8 ASQ Education Course. Introduction to Quality Engineering. Milwaukee. Also Sept. 8-12, Dallas.

4-8 ASQ Education Course. ISO 9001:2000 Lead Auditor Training (Registar Accreditation Board accredited). Milwaukee. Also Sept. 8-12, Dallas.

4-8 ASQ Education Course. ISO/TS 16949:2002 Train-the-Trainer. Milwaukee.

5-6 Basic Statistical Process Control. Chicago. Call Affiliated Educational Consultants at 773-262-8140 or e-mail info@aecltd.com.

5-8 Product and Process Design Improvement Using the Taguchi Approach. Southfield, MI. Call Nutek at 248-540-4827 or e-mail rkroy@wwnet.net.

6 ISO 9001:2000 Overview. Dayton, OH. Also Sept. 10 and Oct. 8. Call IQC at 800-450-1387 or e-mail sales@iqcinc.com.

6-7 ASQ Education Course. After the Audit: Continual Improvement From the Audit Process. Milwaukee.

6-8 Project Management Workshop. Boston. Call Kepner-Tregoe at 800-537-6378 or e-mail info@kepner-tregoe.com.

6-8 ASQ Education Course. Software Functional Testing. Milwaukee.

7-8 ASQ Education Course. Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (Design and Process FMEA). Milwaukee.

8 ASQ Education Course. ISO/TS 16949: 2002 Overview. Milwaukee.

11-12 Reliability Analysis Tools. Irvine, CA. Call Hobbs Engineering at 303-469-4353 or e-mail learn@hobbsengr.com.

11-15 ISO 14001 EMS Lead Auditor Training. Las Vegas. Call ABS Consulting at 301-921-2345 or visit www.govinst.com.

11-15 Principles of Metrology Course. Tampa, FL. Call Fluke at 800-443-5853 or fax 425-446-5992.

12-13 Root Cause Analysis Methods Workshop. Hopewell, VA. Call Reliability Center at 800-458-0645 or e-mail info@reliability.com.

15 Blueprint for Organizational Success. Albuquerque, NM. Call Quality New Mexico at 505-944-2001 or e-mail qnm@quality-newmexico.org.

18-22 Continual Improvement: The Path to Business Excellence. Chicago. Call Stat-A-Matrix at 800-472-6477 or fax 732-548-4085.

21-22 Quality Systems Documentation. San Diego. Call BSI Management Systems at 800-745-5565 or visit www.bsiamericas.com/ training.

SEPTEMBER

4-5 Leading With Safety. Atlanta. Call Behavioral Science Technology at 800-548-5781 or e-mail bstojai@bstsolutions.com.

8-9 ASQ Education Course. Integrating ISO 14001 Into ISO/TS 16949:2002 Certified Systems. Dallas.

8-10 ASQ Education Course. Certified Calibration Technician Refresher. Dallas.

8-10 ASQ Education Course. Design of Experiments. Dallas.

8-12 Aerospace Congress and Exhibition 2003. Montreal. Call Aerospace North America at 604-473-9664 or e-mail info@aerospace-na.com.

8-12 ASQ Education Course. ISO 14000 Lead Auditor Training (Registar Accreditation Board accredited). Dallas.

8-12 ASQ Education Course. Software Quality Engineering. Dallas.

10-12 ASQ Education Course. Process Capability. Dallas.

11-12 ASQ Education Course. Hospital System Failure Mode and Effects Analysis. Dallas.

11-12 ASQ Education Course. Quality Cost Principles. Dallas.

11-12 ASQ Education Course. Transitioning to an ISO/TS 16949:2002 Quality Management System. Dallas.

15-17 Georgia Oglethorpe Annual Conference and Awards Banquet. Savannah, GA. Call Davina Henderson at 770-494- 5293 or visit www.georgiaoglethorpe.org.

16-17 ASQ Education Course. Quality Audits for Improved Performance. Phoenix.

17-18 ASQ Education Course. Accelerating Project Success. Toronto.

17-19 ASQ Education Course. Internal Quality Auditor Training (Registar Accreditation Board accredited). Atlanta.

28-Oct. 2 35th Annual Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering Technical Conference. Dayton, OH. Call 626-331-0616 or fax 626-332-8929.

29 ASQ Conference. Advanced Manufacturing Interest Group: Thriving in a Lean Environment. Naperville, IL. Call George Alukal at 312-542-0445 or e-mail galukal@CMCUSA.org.

OCTOBER

4-8 Product Development and Management Association International Conference. Boston. Call PDMA at 866-223-2579 or visit www.pdma.org/2003.