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  Professor Goh Thong Ngee Received the William G. Hunter Award from the American Society for Quality
   
 

Professor Goh Thong Ngee of the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department was named the 2007 recipient of the William G. Hunter Award. The award, established by the Statistics Division of the American Society for Quality in 1987 in honor of the division's founding chairman, is presented annually to encourage the creative development and application of statistical techniques to problem-solving in the quality field. This is the first time the award was given to a recipient from Asia.

   
 

 

 
 
 
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Past Recipients of the William G. Hunter Award were:

1988 William J. Hill

1989 Rudolf G. Kittlitz

1990 Ronald D. Snee

1991 Gerald J. Hahn

1992 Brian L. Joiner

1993 John F. MacGregor

1994 J. Edward (Ted) Jackson

1995 William Lawton

1996 Douglas C. Montgomery

1997 Lynne B. Hare

1998 Patrick Sylvester

1999 Roger Hoerl

2000 David Bacon

2001 Karen Kafadar

2002 Soren Bisgaard

2003 William Q. Meeker

2004 Tony Greenfield

2005 Douglas M. Hawkings

2006 Bovas Abraham

 
 

About Professor T N Goh

Professor T N Goh, PE, holds a BE from the University of Saskatchewan and a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Among the various positions he has held are Dean of NUS Faculty of Engineering and Head of Industrial and Systems Engineering Department. He a Fellow of the American Society for Quality and Academician, International Academy for Quality. He is Founder President, Institute of Industrial Engineers Singapore Chapter, and formerly President, Singapore Institute of Statistics as well as honorary Secretary, Operational Research Society of Singapore. Recent international awards and honours he has received include IEEE Engineering Management Society's "Educator of the Year" Award (2004) and International Academy for Quality's inaugural Walter E. Masing Book Prize (2006). Prof Goh is author or co-author of four books and more than a hundred research papers on subjects related to statistical methods in quality engineering.

 

   
 
 
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