Exposing Management Students to Deming

[Steven_S_Prevette@rl.gov]

One area of influence we can have in supporting Dr. Deming's ideas is being
willing to guest-lecture for colleges.  We have a branch campus of
Washington State University here in town.  A management professor was
looking to find a guest lecturer and queried his class about it.  One
student (this was a night course) had been through one of my Red Bead
sessions at work, and suggested it.

I did go in and do the Red Bead experiment for one of the class sessions.  I
just received an invitation to come back in April, with the following
comment:

I am in the process of preparing my syllabus for a WSU Management class this
spring semester and was wondering if you would be interested in being a
guest speaker again.  Your presentation on "The Red Bead Experiment" was
outstanding and such a hit with the students.  I have scheduled you for
April 12, 2001, Thursday at 4:15, If you accept.  Please advise.....   

Of course I accepted.  Off-line discussion with the moderator resulted in
the suggestion to post this as an example for "spreading the word".

Steve Prevette
QA Engineer, ESH Radiological Compliance
Fluor Hanford, A Fluor Global Services Company
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steven_s_prevette@rl.gov
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