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W. L. Gore & Associates Awards QMM Program $10,000 GrantW.L. Gore & Associates, manufacturer of GORE-TEX® fabric and thousands of other innovative products, has awarded a $10,000 grant to support Penn State's Quality and Manufacturing Management (QMM) Program, which is administered jointly between the College of Engineering and the Smeal College of Business. W. L. Gore & Associates Inc. Awards QMM Program $10,000 GrantUNIVERSITY PARK, PA (January 24, 2007) – W.L. Gore & Associates, manufacturer of GORE-TEX® fabric and thousands of other innovative products, has awarded a $10,000 grant to support Penn State's Quality and Manufacturing Management (QMM) Program, which is administered jointly between the College of Engineering and the Smeal College of Business. The Gore gift will be used primarily to recruit talented students into the QMM program as W. L. Gore & Associates Fellows through scholarship support. The remaining portion of the grant will be used to support the overall program. The QMM program integrates business, leadership, communication management, technology, and engineering into a two-semester master's degree curriculum, conferring on its graduates the Master of Manufacturing Management (MMM). "The Gore gift recognizes the strategic importance of preparing tomorrow's manufacturing leaders," said Russell Barton, Smeal professor of supply chain and information systems and co-director of the QMM program. "It provides critically needed resources for strengthening an already strong MMM program. Support for scholarships and program awareness will allow us to attract top candidates, enriching the peer experience for everyone." By drawing upon the knowledge of an advisory board of industry experts and the expertise of the faculty, the QMM program offers its students the chance to learn about real-world manufacturing issues as well as the latest research and theory related to process improvement. For more on the program, visit www.mmmdegree.psu.edu. Perhaps best known for its consumer products like GORE-TEX® fabric and ELIXIR® guitar strings, Gore is a leading manufacturer of thousands of advanced technology products for the electronics, industrial, fabrics and medical markets. The company is headquartered in Newark, Del., posts sales of approximately $2 billion, and employs almost 8,000 associates at 50 facilities throughout the world. For more information, visit www.gore.com. REPORTERS & EDITORS: For more information, please contact Wyatt DuBois in the Smeal College of Business Media Relations Office at 814-863-3798 or wed112@psu.edu. Penn State's Smeal College of Business offers highly ranked undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, Ph.D., and executive education opportunities to more than 5,500 students at all levels. Featuring academic departments of accounting, finance, marketing, insurance and real estate, management, and supply chain and information systems, the college is also home to major research centers such as the Center for Supply Chain Research, the Institute for the Study of Business Markets, the Center for Digital Transformation, the Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the Center for Global Business Studies, and the Center for the Management of Technological and Organizational Change. Document Actions |
