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Background
Accreditation
Appendix I

B. Accreditation Summary

Appendix IC. Faculty Vitae

Roger W. Berger
Professor
Phased retirement status, teaching Spring semesters only

Degrees:

    BS, Mechanical Engineering, Univ. of Nebraska, 1958

    MS, Industrial Engineering, Kansas State Univ., 1962

    PhD, Industrial Engineering and Management, Oklahoma St. Univ., 1968

Service:

    IE Department: Curriculum Committee, Honors and Awards Committee, Scholarship Committee, Alumni Relations Committee, Promotion and Tenure Committee

    Engineering College: Honors and Awards Committee, Ad Hoc Committee to create the Dept. of Engineering Fundamentals and Multidisciplinary Design

    Iowa State University: PACE Awards Committee

    Alpha Pi Mu (Industrial Engineering Honorary) Faculty Advisor

    American Society for Quality Faculty Advisor

Related Experience:

    3 years at Sandia Corporation, Albuquerque New Mexico

    5 years as Assistant Professor, West Virginia University

    1 summer at Whirlpool Corp, Benton Harbor Michigan

Consulting:

    Donnelly Marketing, Nevada Iowa

    Sharp Industries, Des Moines Iowa

    US Army

Professional Registration:

    Not currently registered (let it expire around 1985)

Principal Publications:

    Quality Engineers Handbook — Editor

    Implementing Statistical Process Control — Senior author

    Quality Circles — Co-author

Professional Societies:

    American Society for Quality

    American Institute of Industrial Engineers

Honors and Awards:

    Governor’s Award for service in Quality in the state of Iowa State University

    Numerous service awards, plaques, certificates, and one medal, from the American Society for Quality, and various units of same

    Fellow, American Society for Quality

Service:

    Editor of Quality Management Forum, a quarterly newsletter for members of the Quality Management Division of American Society for Quality

    Founder of the National Quality Management Conference, now in its 12th year of presentation. (Name was changed to Quality Management Conference in 1998)

Professional Development:

    Quality Function Deployment

    Effective Teaching (this was required because my teaching was considered inadequate at the time. I was given a certificate of participation)

    Design of Experiments (2 weeks, Purdue University)

    Materials Handling Institute on Teaching (2 weeks, Montana State University)


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