Professor TN Goh has more than three decades' track record in research and dissemination of information in the fields of Quality Engineering and Quality Management. He is an elected Academician of the International Academy for Quality, Fellow of the American Society for Quality (ASQ), Honorary Member of the Singapore Quality Institute, and a GE-certified Six Sigma educationalist. In addition to general quality practitioners, more than a thousand Six Sigma and DFSS (Design for Six Sigma) personnel in a wide spectrum of companies in Asia-Pacific countries have benefited from his expertise through short courses, formal training and consulting.

Professor Goh will receive the award consists of a plaque and an honorarium of US$1,000 at the 2006 International Engineering Management Conference (EM-2006), in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.