TRAINING

www.asq.org
Information on all of ASQ’s seven certifications (quality engineer, quality auditor, software quality engineer, quality technician, quality manager, Quality Inspector and reliability engineer) and on recertification can be found at this site by clicking on the links to certification and recertification.

www.astd.org
The American Society for Training & Development is a professional organization providing resources on workplace performance issues. Highlights of the site include articles related to work force issues, reports of the organization’s many studies, a buyers’ guide and a literature search.

www1.astd.org/HPICommunity
The American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) offers training to support human performance improvement. This site tells about ASTD’s six-course improvement certificate program.

www.asu.edu
The American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) offers its human performance improvement certificate program through Arizona State University. This portion of ASU’s website outlines the seven-week course. ASU and ASTD recommend it for consultants who work in training, human resources or organizational development, trainers who want to become performance improvement consultants and managers who want to improve the performance of their employees and departments.

consultinginstitute.org
This is the home page for the International Institute of Consulting and Training. The site specializes in training, consulting and publishing. Training focuses on a number of different areas including: metrology, calibration, procedures, gage repair and ISO 17025/Guide 25.

www.engr.wisc.edu/centers/cqpi
The Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement (CQPI) conducts research on methods of quality improvement and provides a forum for students and professionals to promote the exchange of quality ideas. The center works collectively with the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering, the Graduate School of Business and the Department of Statistics.

www-1.ibm.com/ibm/palisades/abi
IBM's Advanced Business Institute offers executives courses and conferences on modern management. In addition, the site provides complete copies of recent publications concerning management and technology issues.

www.sei.cmu.edu
The U.S. Department of Defense established the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) to advance the practice of software engineering. The SEI site provides links to events and conferences, but the real advantage is links to three software engineering information repositories found under "products and services."

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