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. 

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 800-966-9392 or fax 847-375-6320.

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

10-12 Systematic Software Testing Seminar. Portland, OR. Call Software Quality Engineering at 800-423-8378 or e-mail sqeinfo@sqe.com.

10-14 Successful Six Sigma Part One (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.

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. Also Nov. 13-14, Orlando, FL.

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

11-12 SPC Using SQCpack 2000. Dayton, OH. Call PQ Systems at 800-777-3020 or fax 937-885-2252.

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

12-13 Registrar Accreditation Board Certified Preparing for ISO 9001:2000 Transition Training. Chicago. Call Brewer and Associates at 972-641-8020 or fax 972-641-1327.

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

12-14 Project Management: Planning, Scheduling and Control. Madison, WI. Call University of Wisconsin-Madison Executive Education at 800-292-8964 or fax 608-441-7325.

13-14 Performance Excellence Boot Camp. Dallas. Call Hogan Center for Performance Excellence at 972-406-1976 or fax 972-406-2922.

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.

14 Advanced Highly Accelerated Life Test (HALT) and Highly Accelerated Stress Test (HAST) Applications. Boston. Call Hobbs Engineering at 303-465-5988 or e-mail learn@hobbsengr.com.

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 Training. Indianapolis. Also Nov. 5-9, Orlando, FL.

17-21 ASQ Education Course. Software Quality Engineering. San Diego. Also Nov. 5-8, Las Vegas.

17-21 Perfecting Continual Improvement Skills. Knoxville, TN. Call Statistical Process Controls 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. Also Nov. 26-29, Orlando, FL.

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 Conference Unit at 44-0-20-7383-6409 (UK) or e-mail Quality@bma.org.uk.

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

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

24-28 QS-9000 Lead Auditor 36-Hour Training. Cleveland. Call International ISO Group at 513-742-7500 or fax 513-851-5881.

24-28 Introduction to Quality Engineering. Chicago. Call Affiliated Educational Consultants at 888-880-7490 or e-mail info@aecltd.com.

24-28 Lean Boot Camp. Northern Georgia. Call Elena Johnson at 800-924-2517 or e-mail recruitingoffice@leanbootcamp.cs.com.

24-28 ASQ Education Course. Introduction to Quality Engineering. Dallas. Also Nov. 12-16, San Diego.

24-28 ASQ Education Course. Introduction to Quality Management. Milwaukee. Also Nov. 12-16, Las Vegas.

24-28 ASQ Education Course. ISO 9001:2000 Lead Auditor Training. (American National Standards Institute/Registrar Accreditation Board accredited.) San Diego. Also Nov. 12-16, Las Vegas.

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 Calibration and Control of Measuring. San Francisco. Call Excel Partnership at 800-374-3818 or www.excelpartnership.com.

8-12 World Standards Week 2001. Washington. Call American National Standards Institute (ANSI) at 212-642-4900 or www.ansi.org.

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.

15-16 Managing Supplier Performance: Measurement, Certification and Quality Improvement. Chicago. Call American Management Association at 800-262-9699 or e-mail customerservice@amanet.org.

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.

18-19 Chemical and Process Industries and Statistics Division 45th Annual Fall Technical Conference. Toronto, Canada. Call Sharon Fronheiser at 716-722-3003 or www.amstat.org./sections/spes/.

22-23 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 Experiment Design Made Easy. San Jose, CA. Call Stat-Ease at 800-801-7191 or fax 612-378-2152.

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.

23-26 Miconex 2001 Inter-national Trade Fair for Measurement, Instrumentation and Automation. Shanghai, China. Call Messe Düsseldorf North America at 312-781-5180 or e-mail info@mdna.com.

NOVEMBER

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

4-8 Pac Rim IV: An International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Glasses. Wailea, Maui, HI. Call American Ceramic Society at 614-794-5890 or e-mail customersrvc@acers.org.

5-6 ASQ Customer-Supplier Division 2001 Conference. Louisville, KY. E-mail Jeff.Jaswa@AkzoNobel.com. or visit www.asq.csd.org.

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

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. Chicago. Call JCR at 630-792-5800 or visit www.Infomart.com.

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

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