Lin Honored As American Society for Quality Fellow
The board of directors of the American Society for Quality (ASQ) has elected as a fellow Dennis Lin, University Distinguished Professor of Statistics and Supply Chain Management at Penn State's Smeal College of Business.
Lin Honored As American Society for Quality Fellow
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA (June 15, 2006)—The board of directors of the American Society for Quality (ASQ) has elected as a fellow Dennis Lin, University Distinguished Professor of Statistics and Supply Chain Management at Penn State's Smeal College of Business.
Lin was honored for his outstanding leadership and innovation in the fields of quality and statistics as an educator, practitioner, and integrator with other disciplines, specifically in the areas of supply chain management, data mining, experiment design, quality engineering, statistical process control, and reliability.
The American Society for Quality has more than 100,000 individual and organizational members and is widely recognized as the world's leading authority on quality. ASQ Fellows are elected based upon having achieved professional distinction and pre-eminence in the technology, theory, education, application, or management of quality control.
Since he joined the Smeal College in 1995, Lin has published more than 100 journal articles and has served on editorial boards of the top journals in his field. He is an elected fellow of the American Statistical Association, an elected member of the International Statistical Institute, a lifetime member of the International Chinese Statistical Association, and a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society.
He is an honorary chair professor for several universities, including National Chengchi University in Taiwan, Remin University of China, and Xian Statistical Institute in China. He received his doctorate in statistics from the University of Wisconsin and a Bachelor of Science degree from National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan.
For a complete list of the ASQ honorees, visit http://www.asq.org/media-room/news/2006/06/20060607-asq-fellows.html.
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.
