Happy August to all!
 I hope everyone is enjoying their summer and are planning on joining us this September 11th, which is now known as Patriot’s Day for the entire nation. We will have Lars Gacad speaking on the subject of Strategic Quality Planning.
        Our Section will also be awarding Yarde Metals a special recognition award for excellence in productivity and quality improvement. The Executive Committee and Awards Committee were quite impressed with Yarde Metals and combined felt that this recognition award should be given to the team at Yarde Metals.
      The next subject I would like to bring up is our fall offering by the Education team.
They are as follows:
CQE Mock Exam and Review (CQE-4) 
Process Mapping /Process Management
Non-Metallic Materials: Applications & Testing
Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE)
Basic Metallurgy
Lean Initiatives
Measuring Customer Satisfaction
Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing (GD&T)
Certified Quality Improvement Associate (CQIA)
Six Sigma Black Belt Refresher course
Advance Statistical Tools (CQE-3)
Certified Software Quality Engineer Refresher course (CSQE)
Certified Quality Technician Refresher course (CQT)
Certified Quality Engineer Refresher course (CQE)
Certified Manager of Quality and Operational Excellence (CMQOE)
Certified Quality Inspector (CQI)
Certified Quality Auditor (CQA)
SPC Basics (CQE-1)
Quality Engineering Basics (CQE-2)

 With the new website unfortunately we don’t have the old system of signing up for classes. So all you have to do is let John Sweney know that you are interested in the class by sending him an email of interest. The details are available on the website under Education and a special link on the front page. These links will pop up with all the information, ready to print out. John’s email is This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or email me and I will pass it on to John. Either way will get you into our training classes.

 The last item I would like to bring up is our listing for this year’s events. We have a partial listing of events that Howard Herman and the Programs team are working on for the rest of the year.  As soon as we can, the entire list will be published.
  Have a great rest of the summer and I hope to see everyone in September

Bob Dembkoski ASQ-CQA,CQIA
Hartford Section Chair 2007/2009