In a March 25th press release ASQ National identified 24-new ASQ Fellows.  “ASQ Fellows are leaders in the quality community who are dedicated to making their organizations and communities better for the world around them,” said ASQ Chair Pat La Londe. “They have worked tirelessly to improve quality and sustain the quality movement – enhancing the world around them.”

One new Fellow is from Indiana, and is a member of the Illiana Section.

Steven J. Schuelka, SJS Consulting, Crown Point, Ind. — For championing quality improvement by delivering training internally and educating others throughout the Chicago area; and for providing exemplary leadership and service to the Illiana Section, the Statistics Division and ASQ as a whole.

ASQ Fellows must be nominated by their section, forum/division, a country councilor, or the elected chair or president of a country unit recognized by the ASQ board of directors.

A Fellow member must first be a Senior member for at least the past five calendar years prior to the submission.

The Process to become a fellow is contained on the ASQ National Website page Fellow Membership, a short summary follows:

1. In general, the Fellow candidate must be an ASQ member for 15-years, a senior member for 5 years and attained distinction in quality-related disciplines.
2. The candidate must meet the minimum scoring each of the six proficiency areas of technical competence, occupational responsibility, publications, ASQ activities, professional organizations other than ASQ, and teaching or consulting.
3. Finally the candidate must score a total of 28 points minimum across all six proficiency areas.

Fellow nominations must be received by MAY 1st.  If you plan on submitting this year please let the Section Leadership Committee know as we will need to review and endorse the nomination.  If you are looking to the future, there is no better time to start collecting the information needed for next year’s nomination.

Did you know that as a service to our membership, IndyASQ hosts the ASQ certification exams?

The most recent certification examination was in March at the University of Indianapolis.  This session included 6-different examinations with a total of 30 candidates taking the examinations.

Did you know that you can obtain re-certification points for proctoring an examination?  0.5 RU for an assistant proctor/day, 0.25 RU for a registration assistant.

 

Can I subscribe to the IndyAsq News page using a RSS  (Rich Site Summary) reader?

You bet – and it is simple to do.  You will notice that our IndyASQ news site does not have the typical RSS icon to subscribe to the posts.  But that is okay as most browsers today have an extension or plug in that will automatically detect if the website offers RSS feeds and do all the hard work for you!  For example in the Chrome browser the extension is RSS Feed Reader and is available here.  Information for Safari is located here. you may have to find or enable the plugin for your favorite browser.

Once you have enabled a RSS reader, navigate to the webpage that you would like to pull updates from – Indyasq.org. Click the RSS Icon in your browser, click the add feed button, and the available feeds on the website will be shown. See below:

Simply click the green + Follow button and close the RSS reader window by clicking the check-mark icon.

When you click on the feed – the headlines for all the posts on the site (or as many as you have set) will show, to read them just click the story of interest!

Enjoy the blog and never be out of touch with what is happening in your IndyASQ Section!

Rick Van Doel, Senior Advisor

As seen on ASQTV:

Quality plays an important role in industries regulated by government bodies like the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. A representative from the FDA talks to ASQ about this role, as well as an upcoming regulation that will affect consumers. The quality tool flowcharting is also explained and demonstrated.  Click the following link to launch the Video:

Quality and the FDA

As a benefit to ASQ Members, the Indianapolis Section of ASQ hosts ASQ Certification Examinations. Information on the examination location and dates is available at this link. The last examination date that has results posted occurred on December 5, 2015.  IndyASQ would like to congratulate the following IndyASQ members who successfully completed their examinations and obtained an ASQ certification. We look forward to meeting you at one of our ASQ Dinner meetings in the future.

Certified Quality Auditor:

Josh Cardinal, Tim Falks, W.Barry Ingram, John C. Lockwood, Marlo A. Mravec, Mandy E. Russell, Julie A. Stergar, Debby Whiteside

Certified Quality Engineer:

Siddharth Bavadekar, Sanal Kwatra, Ooha Malladi, Rajanikant Patel, Brandon Rasmusen, Larry F. Schoettmer, Amol P. Shende, Abhinav R. T.

Certified Quality Improvement Associate:

Trisha Dugan, James B. Gabbard, Tamara J. Hueston, Matthey LeCleir, Dawn Maxie, Rob Schlotterbeck, John Wheatley

Six Sigma Green Belt:

Randall E. Beaver, Adam Dather, Neil Flack, Caleb M. Klaman, James Lipe, Amy Schoenfelder, Cody S. Sheets, Nicholas Shook, Lori Stonecipher, Kevin T. Webster, Michael Welling

Certified Quality Process Analyst:

Charles Noel

The IndyAsq News page, a new page to our website where the Indianapolis Section Leadership Committee (SLC) can share information with our members.  This will provide an additional communication channel to our members to inform you of happenings within the section, committee updates, volunteer opportunities, and other relevant information about your section.  Rick Van Doel, Senior Advisor