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

AUGUST

1-3 Excellence in Government 2001. Washington. Call Government Executive Magazine at 800-868-9445 or fax 202-828-7092.

2-3 ASQ Education Course. Integrating ISO 14001 Into QS-9000 Certified Systems. Detroit.

6-8 Systematic Software Testing Seminar. Pasadena, CA. Call Software Quality Engineering at 800-423-8378 or e-mail sqeinfo@sqe.com. 

6-10 Comprehensive ISO 9001 Course. Columbus, OH. Call International ISO Group at 513-742-7500 or fax 513-851-5881.

7-8 Basic Statistical Process Control. Schaumburg, IL. Call Affiliated Educational Consultants at 888-880-7490 or e-mail info@aecltd.com. 

7-9 ASQ Education Course. Implementing and Auditing an ISO 9000 Quality System. Milwaukee. Also Oct. 10-12, Atlanta.

8-10 Effective Internal Quality Auditing Workshop. Savannah, GA. Call B-K Education Service at 972-660-4575 or fax 972-641-1327.

9-10 ASQ Education Course. After the Audit: Benefiting From the Audit Process. Orlando, FL.

9-10 Customer Satisfaction Measurement. Hilton Head Island, SC. Call American Management Association at 480-262-9699 or e-mail customerservice@amanet.org. 

13-17 ASQ Education Course. ISO 9001:2000 Customer Satisfaction Compliance. San Diego.

13-17 ASQ Education Course. Reliability Engineering. Milwaukee.

14-15 ASQ Education Course. 16-Hour ISO 9001:2000 Lead Auditor Training. (American National Standards Institute/Registrar Accreditation Board accredited.) Milwaukee. Also Sept. 17-18, Las Vegas.

15-16 ASQ Education Course. Facts Analysis. Baltimore. Also Oct. 17-18, Milwaukee.

22 ASTM Committee E37 on Thermal Measurements. West Conshohocken, PA. Call American Society for Testing and Materials at 610-832-9739 or e-mail totoole@astm.org. 

26-29 ASQ Energy and Environmental Division 2001 National Conference. Richmond, VA. Call Tom Trbovich at 210-522-3145 or John Dew at 205-348-9831.

27-28 ASQ Education Course. Customer-Supplier Partnerships. San Diego.

SEPTEMBER

5-7 Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) Fundamentals: Refresher Course for the ASQ CQA HACCP Examination. Knoxville, TN. Call EQE International Inc. at 865-675-2580 or fax 865-671-5851.

8-11 National Association for Healthcare Quality (NAHQ) 26th Annual Educational Conference and Exhibit. Reno, NV. Call NAHQ at 800-966-9392 or fax 847-375-6320.

10-11 ASQ Education Course. Quality Engineering Statistics. Las Vegas.

11 Quality System Regulations for the Medical Device Industry. San Francisco. Call Excel Partnership at 800-374-3818 or fax 914-368-0377.

11-12 ASQ Education Course. Training Fundamentals. Milwaukee.

11-12 QuEST Forum 2nd Annual Best Practice Conference. Dallas.

11-13 Experiment Design Made Easy. Philadelphia. Call Stat-Ease at 800-801-7191 or fax 612-378-2152.

12-14 ASQ Education Course. The Project Management Process. Dallas.

13-14 ASQ Education Course. Implementing ISO 14000. Detroit.

13-14 ASQ Education Course. Using Quality Tools and Problem Solving Processes for Sustained Improvement. Baltimore.

17-18 ASQ Education Course. How To Transition to ISO 9001:2000. Atlanta. Also Oct. 23-24, Milwaukee.

17-18 ASQ Education Course. Quality Audits for Improved Performance. Phoenix.

17-18 ASQ Education Course. Theory of Constraints. San Diego.

17-21 ASQ Education Course. ASQ-Plexus Trainer/Coach Train-ing. Indianapolis.

17-21 ASQ Education Course. Software Quality Engineering. San Diego.

17-21 Perfecting Continual Improvement Skills. Knoxville, TN. Call Statistical Process Controls Inc. at 865-584-5005 or fax 865-588-9440.

19-20 ASQ Education Course. ISO 9001:2000 Internal Quality Auditing. Atlanta.

19-20 ISO 9000 Internal Quality Auditing. Atlanta. Call Georgia Institute of Technology Continuing Education at 404-385-3502 or e-mail conted@gatech.edu. 

19-20 ASTM Committee G04 on Compatibility and Sensitivity of Materials in Oxygen-Enriched Atmosphere. Panama City Beach, FL. Call American Society for Testing and Materials at 610-832-9726 or e-mail smawn@astm.org. 

19-21 ASQ Education Course. Advanced Topics in Statistical Process Control and Short-Run Applications. Atlanta.

19-21 ASQ Education Course. Internal Quality Auditor Training. (American National Standards Institute/Registrar Accreditation Board accredited.) Las Vegas. Also Oct. 31-Nov. 2, Orlando, FL.

19-21 First Annual Asia Pacific Forum on Quality Improvement in Health Care. Sydney, Australia. Call British Medical Journal Confer-ence Unit at 44-0-20-7383-6409 (United Kingdom) or e-mail Quality@bma.org.uk. 

19-21 45th European Organization for Quality Con-gress' Exhibition. Istanbul, Turkey. Call FGS Fuarcilik at 011-90-212-282-88-08 (Turkey) or e-mail basak@fgsfair.com.tr. 

20-21 ASQ Education Course. Quality Cost Principles. Dallas.

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

24-28 ASQ Education Course. Introduction to Quality Management. Milwaukee.

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

25-26 ASQ Education Course. Improving Business Performance: ISO 9000 as a Means To Support Compliance in Health Care. New Orleans.

25-26 ASQ Education Course. Registrar Accreditation Board-Approved ISO 9001:2000 Transition Training From Registrar Accreditation Board-Certified Quality Management System Auditors. Milwaukee. Also Oct. 4-5, Dallas.

25-27 ASQ Education Course. Design of Experiments. Atlanta.

26-28 ASQ Education Course. Baldrige Award Self-Assessment Training for Education. Chicago.

27-28 ASQ Education Course. Lean Manufacturing. Milwaukee.

OCTOBER

1-2 ASQ Education Course. Integrating ISO 14001 and ISO 9001. Las Vegas.

2-4 ASQ Education Course. Measuring and Managing Customer Satisfaction and Loyalty. Dallas.

2-4 ASQ Education Course. Process Capability. Milwaukee.

3-5 ASQ Education Course. Design of Experiments II: Process Modeling and Optimization. Milwaukee.

8-12 ASQ Education Course. ISO 14000 Lead Auditor Training. (American National Standards Institute/Registrar Accreditation Board accredited.) Milwaukee.

10-11 ASQ Education Course. Keeping Score. Orlando, FL.

15-16 ASQ Education Course. Integrated Process Management: A Quality Model. San Diego.

16-18 ASQ Education Course. Preparing the Service Organization for ISO 9000. Orlando, FL.

17 Auditing Computer System Providers. Columbus, OH. Call Validation Associates at 215-354-1720 or e-mail info@validassoc.com. 

22-23 The Memory Jogger II: Seven Quality Control Tools Using Data for Fact Based Decision Making. Washington. Call GOAL/QPC at 800-643-4316 or e-mail service@goalqpc.com. 

23-24 ASQ Education Course. Linking the Balanced Scorecard to Business Results. Phoenix.

23-25 ASQ Education Course. Using Baldrige Assessment to Improve Business Performance. Milwaukee.

23-25 Cleveland 2001 Advanced Productivity Exposition. Cleveland. Call Society of Manufacturing Engineers at 800-733-4763 or fax 313-271-2861.