Day 814 of 1000
My professor for Statistical Quality Control at the University of Texas at El Paso was Dr. Thomas McLean. He was the head of the department, a classmate of Ross Perot at the Naval Academy, and a great guy. I was there to run the Machine Vision Applications Laboratory which was started by Dr. Carroll Johnson and I, but they talked me into getting a Masters degree in Industrial Engineering at the same time. I had to take a few undergraduate leveling classes to get started and the SQC class was one of them.
I loved the class. It was not so much that the material was so complex or innovative, but that I had worked in the manufacturing sector for ten years before I arrived at UTEP and I understood its importance. SQC is a tool that is frequently used in conjunction with Machine Vision. Machine Vision has been the main focus of my career, so it was great to take that class with an excellent instructor. I used what I learned in that class for part of my thesis and frequently ever since.
I told Kelly about the class. I am sure she was a little skeptical, but she was required to take it as part of her Statistics degree. She has enjoyed it a lot. Yesterday, she had to make brownies that were used as part of a project for the class where the quality of a process was measured and evaluated. What an awesome way to make this material come to life.