ASQ Awards Freund Scholarship to Doctoral Industrial Engineering Student
Milwaukee, Wis. (PRWEB) September 05, 2013 -- ASQ has awarded its Richard A. Freund International Scholarship to Kaibo Liu, a Georgia Institute of Technology student earning a doctoral degree in industrial engineering.
Liu, of China, was awarded the $5,000 scholarship, which is named after a past ASQ president and supports a quality professional’s graduate studies. ASQ is the leading authority on quality in all fields, organizations and industries.
As part of his studies, Liu will be an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison beginning Nov. 1.
“Kaibo Liu stood out among the candidates with his impressive academic achievements and ambitions to conduct innovative research that will benefit the quality community,” said Chuck Aubrey, Freund Scholarship chair and ASQ past chair. “In addition, we were impressed with Kaibo’s determination to research, as part of his doctoral studies, data fusion for quality control and system improvements — a challenging topic that can have a positive impact on the quality discipline.”
Aside from his studies, Liu is an accomplished author, having won awards from the Industrial and Systems Engineering Research Conference and from the quality, statistics and reliability section of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences — or INFORMS. He also is dedicated to teaching, and in 2011 won the outstanding teacher assistant finalist award at Georgia Tech.
“My career goal is to become an active, leading researcher in the data fusion field for quality control and system improvements,” Liu said. “I have prepared to fully devote myself to conducting innovative research and teaching. The recognition and support of the Richard A. Freund Scholarship will help in achieving this goal.”
About the Freund Scholarship
The Richard A. Freund International Scholarship honors the memory of Richard A. Freund, a past president of ASQ (1972–73). Freund was recognized internationally for his contributions to quality, international goodwill and tireless scholarship. Awarded since 1994, the scholarship supports a candidate’s graduate study of the theory and application of quality control, quality assurance, quality improvement and total quality management. It covers the engineering, statistical, managerial and behavioral foundations of those fields. The scholarship is offered to ASQ members and nonmembers worldwide. For more information about the scholarship, visit asq.org/about-asq/awards/freundscholar.html.
About ASQ
ASQ is a global community of people dedicated to quality who share the ideas and tools that make our world work better. With millions of individual and organizational members of the community in 150 countries, ASQ has the reputation and reach to bring together the diverse quality champions who are transforming the world’s corporations, organizations and communities to meet tomorrow’s critical challenges. ASQ is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wis., with national service centers in China, India, Mexico and a regional service center in the United Arab Emirates. Learn more about ASQ’s members, mission, technologies and training at asq.org.
Kevin Braley, ASQ, http://www.asq.org, +1 8002481946 7587, [email protected]
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