Milwaukee, Wis. (PRWEB) February 12, 2013
ASQ will present its Distinguished Service Medals and eight other awards May 5 in Indianapolis, Ind., prior to its annual World Conference on Quality and Improvement.
ASQ, the leading authority on quality in all fields, organizations and industries, recognizes recipients for their innovative contributions and achievements in quality. Winners exemplary achievements are representative of the ideas and tools that make our world work better.
Each individual will be recognized during ASQs Annual Business Meeting Sunday, May 5. For more information about ASQ awards, visit the ASQ website at http://www.asq.org/about-asq/awards.
Distinguished Service Medal winners
ASQs Distinguished Service Medal represents the highest distinction for service from ASQ and honors the lifetime contribution of any person who has been recognized as a long-term enabler, catalyst or prime mover in the quality movement. The Distinguished Service Medals for 2013 have been awarded to:
Charles Aubrey, Juran Institute, Boston, Mass. For a lifetime of selfless, dedicated commitment and service to the global quality community as a volunteer leader, exceptional quality practitioner, and role model of devotion to the promotion of quality in both the profit and nonprofit sectors; as volunteer leader in ASQ for 35 years with activities spanning from local sections, through divisions as well as the highest leadership positions nationally; as the American representative to the Asia Pacific Quality Organization, supplemented by a dozen years as its elected leader and global champion; as a motivated enabler of personal and administrative quality and implementer of quality principles and practices in numerous organizations; for his vision in developing the application of quality methods in the banking community; and as a continuing thought leader for quality applications in finance.
Douglas C. Montgomery, Arizona State University, School of Computing, Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering, Tempe, Ariz. For his dedication and promotion of quality through high-impact research, service, and leadership; for his continued ambassadorship on behalf of ASQ and its promotion nationally and internationally.
2013 Society Medals:
Feigenbaum Medal presented to Austin S. Lin, Procter & Gamble, Avenel, N.J. For the interdisciplinary collaborative application of quality methods, both within and beyond the quality profession’s traditional scope, with an emphasis on career development and nurturing the growth of future leaders of the quality profession.
Freund Marquardt Medal presented to Gary L. Johnson, U.S. EPA (Retired), Apex, N.C. For outstanding leadership and pioneering contributions to the development of international and national quality management, environmental management, and management systems auditing standards and their implementation.
Hutchens Medal presented to Manu K. Vora, Business Excellence, Inc., Naperville, Ill. For his commitment to social responsibility in founding, funding and leading the Blind Foundation for India to serve more than 15 million blind people in India.
Juran Medal presented to Paul H. ONeill, 72nd Secretary of the U.S. Treasury, Pittsburgh, Pa. For serving as secretary of the treasury of the United States in 2001 and 2002; for being a quality revolutionary as CEO of Alcoa from 1987-2000 where he used systems thinking and quality tools to pursue perfect safety and process excellence resulting in the United States safest industrial companies, huge productivity gains, accompanied by Alcoas market value increasing tenfold during his tenure.
Lancaster Medal presented to Bertrand Jouslin de Noray, Neuvy Saint S