Where is quality made? Quality is made in the boardroom.
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| — | W. Edwards Deming |
TOPICS IN QUALITY: STEM EDUCATION AND CAREERS
Featured STEM Resources
Visit the STEM Education and Careers topic page to see resources related to advancing science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) efforts. Featured content includes open-access proceedings from the upcoming 2013 Advancing the STEM Agenda Conference.
When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself.
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| — | Sir Alexander Paterson |
EDUCATION DIVISION
Partnerships to Improve STEM Education
The May 2013 issue of Quality Approaches in Higher Education focuses on partnerships among universities, industry, and government that enhance and provide experiential learning to STEM and engineering majors.
The most common source of mistakes in management decisions is the emphasis on finding the right answer rather than the right question.
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| — | Peter Drucker |
It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.
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| — | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
JOURNAL FOR QUALITY AND PARTICIPATION
Leadership Development: Nature or Nurture?
In the current Journal for Quality and Participation, Kenny Moore argues that truly great leaders are not developed in the classroom but are born with qualities that take them far in life and in business.
Read “Leadership Development: A Whole Lot of Hooey” (PDF, open access), and browse more articles from this issue on leadership development.
BOOK OF THE WEEK
Implementing ISO/IEC 17025:2005
by Bhavan “Bob” Mehta
The purpose of this book is to demystify the requirements delineated within ISO/IEC 17025:2005 while providing a road map for organizations that wish to receive or maintain accreditation for their laboratories.
I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.
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| — | John D. Rockefeller |
QUALITY PROGRESS
Balancing Act
The cover story of the May 2013 QP details how better management of quality data can help organizations identify continuous improvement opportunities, reduce risk, and improve product quality.
Read “Balancing Act,” and listen to an interview with the authors.
Someone without data becomes part of the problem rather than part of the solution.
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| — | Rich Fraser, SRG Global, Statistical Engineering |
Pathways to Social Responsibility
2013 Pathways to Social Responsibility: Successful Practices for Sustaining the Future
The 2013 issue of Pathways to Social Responsibility focuses on global responsibility and includes organizational profiles, a summary of sustainability value chain research, a profile of the 2012 Spencer Hutchens Jr. medalist, and more.
See previous issues of this annual publication.
