Volume 31, Number 1 Newsletter February 1, 1999

Speaker: Dr. Vijay Nair

The traditional approach to statistical process control, as developed by Shewhart in the 1920's, focuses on process monitoring and change-point detection. There has been little emphasis on the development of statistical methods for failure diagnostics and process improvement. There is a critical need for such methods in advanced manufacturing industries where a considerable amount of in-process and product quality data are now being collected routinely. These data contain useful information that can be exploited for improving the processes. This talk will outline a statistical framework for intelligent manufacturing and use some real applications from the automotive and semiconductor industries to describe the research issues. In particular, methods for identifying spatial patterns of defects will be discussed.

We will have a student presentation competition as well as contributed paper presentations. We hope that area faculty will encourage students to participate. Preparing a paper will be valuable experience for a student. Please submit a one or two paragraph abstract by March 1st to:

Brad Warner

HQ USAFA/DFMS

2354 Fairchild Drive, Suite 6D2A

USAF Academy, CO 80840-6252

Phone:(719) 333-4470

Fax: (719) 333-2114

Email: WarnerBA.DFMS.USAFA@usafa.af.mil

Pre-registration Form: ASA CO/WY Chapter 1999 Spring Conference, Friday, April 9, 1999

Pre-registration must be received with payment by Monday, April 5, 1999. Walk-up registration will be available the day of the conference for an additional $3. Please mail this form and payment to Brad Warner (see above address).

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Please note that the registration will not include lunch.

Cherry Creek High School is one of the area schools sponsored by the local chapter. Cherry Creek offers a general probability/statistics course first semester as a prerequisite for an Advanced Placement Statistics course in the spring. Last spring CCHS students did very well on the AP Stat Exam. Twenty-three out of twenty-four students who took the exam scored a 3 or higher. The table shows the AP scoring, along with the distribution achieved by the CCHS students as compared to the national average.

5 extremely well qualified 6 (25.0%) 13.4%

4 well qualified 9 (37.5%) 21.3%

3 qualified 8 (33.3%) 24.6%

2 possibly qualified 1 (4.2%) 18.7%

1 no recommendation 0 21.9%

CCHS teacher Jim Luhring reports that they also did a poster competition this fall. Jim thanks the ASA for its support. He was able to attend the Westco Conference in the spring of 98 in Colorado Springs. He also uses the publications from ASA in his classes, sharing articles with students from AMSTAT NEWS, STATS, and CHANCE magazines.

Awards are available for outstanding statistics majors from schools in the chapter area, in honor of Maurice Davies, a founder of the chapter. One undergraduate or graduate student from a school may receive an award. The award carries with it a one-year student membership in the American Statistical Association. If a department desires to present such an award, please send the name of the student to the chapter president by March 15, 1999.

Bill Navidi

Dept. of Mathematical & Computer Sciences

Colorado School of Mines

Shortly after our last issue was mailed, we received a note from out past president, Jim Rutledge.

"It has been an honor and a privilege to serve as the CO-WY ASA president for the past year. The year

went by very fast and I had a great time. I would like to especially thank the other chapter officers. Bill, Jack, Jim, Joan, Karen, and Snehalata - thank you for all your help and support. I would like to take this opportunity to encourage other chapter members to get involved as a chapter officer. When I agreed to be the president-elect, I was very apprehensive about the amount of work that would be involved. I quickly learned that the other chapter officers would work together so that no one person would become overwhelmed. The best part about being a chapter officer is that you get the opportunity to meet new people. I found this to be the most rewarding aspect about being involved in the chapter. Even though I have moved to Ohio, the CO-WY chapter will always hold a special place in my heart."

Please check you mailing label. The date on the right side shows when your membership in the local chapter expires. Colorado-Wyoming Chapter annual dues are $5.00 per year for regular members and $2.00 per year for student members. You may pay chapter dues through ASA headquarters along with your society dues, OR you may pay them directly to the chapter treasurer. National membership is not a prerequisite for membership and participation in chapter activities.

A dues payment form is on the back of this page. Please make checks payable to CO-WY ASA. Payments should be mailed to our treasurer at the following address:

Snehalata Huzurbazar

P.O. Box 3332, Dept. of Statistics

University of Wyoming

Laramie, WY 82071

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