The ASA’s Section on Quality and Productivity recently awarded two Mary G. and Joseph Natrella Scholarships during the 2013 Quality and Productivity Research Conference, which was held June 4–7 in Niskayuna, New York.
Haridy
Plumlee
The recipients for 2013 are Salah Haridy, a PhD candidate in the division of systems and engineering management at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, and Matthew Plumlee, a PhD candidate in the department of industrial and systems engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Haridy was recommended for the award by Zhang Wu and Philippe Castagliola (LUNAM Université / Université de Nantes). His presentation at the conference was titled “An Application of Curtailment in Control Charts.” Plumlee was recommended for the award by Jianjun Shi and V. Roshan Joseph. The title of his presentation was “Building Accurate Emulators for Stochastic Simulations.”
The winners were chosen for their outstanding teaching, community service, mentoring, leadership, scholarship, and commitment to the pursuit of quality improvement through the use of statistical methods. Each recipient gave a research presentation at the conference and received a $3,500 scholarship, plus $500 for travel expenses and complimentary registration for the conference and the pre-conference short course.
The scholarships are funded from the ASA Natrella Scholarship Fund and the Quality and Productivity Research Conference. Visit the ASA’s Quality and Productivity Section website for additional information.
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