MSMESB 2002 Technical
Program:
Getting Real with Statistics
Please note: This program is a work in progress and will continue to be added to as sessions and speakers confirm they will be a part of the program. Only confirmed presenters are listed. When abstracts are provided, they will be linked to the talk or workshop title as appropriate. Timings and rooms are subject to change based on needs.
MSMESB Conference
June 6-8, 2002
Hosted by the Terry College of Business
University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
PROGRAM
Thursday, June 6
3:00 - 5:00 p.m. Optional tour of
Eaton Corporation
For those that signed up for the Eaton Tour, UGA vans
will leave the Holiday Inn Hull Street exit (near the registration desk)
at 3:00 p.m. promptly. Your hosts will be Terry faculty members,
Kari Jones and Ray Hagtvedt.
7:30 - 9:00 p.m. Registration and Welcome
Reception, Wray-Nicholson House
The Wary Nicholson House is approximately one block behind the
Holiday Inn, at 298 Hull Street. Conference host representatives
will be at the registration desk of the hotel lobby to assist you with
directions. Hot and cold hors d-oeuvres will be served.
The technical program is organized with a keynote session and three tracks as follows:
Keynote Session: Enhancing Undergraduate Statistics
Track 1 - Getting Real With Our Customers
Track 2 - Getting Real With Statistics in the Business Curriculum
Track 3 - Getting Real With Technology
Friday, June 7
7:00 - 8:00 a.m. Buffet Breakfast, Georgian Ballroom, Holiday Inn
8:00 - 8:30 a.m. Time to travel (walk or otherwise) to Sanford Hall
8:30 - 8:50 a.m. Welcome
to the University of Georgia - 213 Sanford Hall
Terry College of Business
George Benson, Dean
John Neter, Professor Emeritus
Introduction to Technical Program
Bill Parr
President of MSMESB, Technical Program Manager
University of Tennessee
8:50 - 10:00 am. Plenary
One, 213 Sanford Hall
Data Mining
Lynne Stokes
Editor, American Statistician
Southern Methodist University
10:00 - 10:30 a.m. Break - Refreshments, Sanford Hall, 2nd Floor
10:30 - 11:45
Track 1
309 Sanford Hall
The Role of Statistics in Business
Dr. Lynne Billard
Former President American Statistical Association
Dr. T. N. Sriram
Department of Statistics, University of Georgia
Session Chair: Betty Thorne, Stetson University
Discussion
10:30 - 11:45
Track 2
312 Sanford Hall
Textbook Publisher's Panel
Curt Hinrichs, Publisher, Duxbury Press
Scott Isenberg, Senior Editor, McGraw-Hill
John D. McKenzie, Babson College
Session Chair
11:45 - noon North Campus Historical Tour on way to Downtown area
12:00 - 2:00 p.m. "Flavor of Downtown
Athens" Lunch (on your own)
Restaurant Cuisines & Locations information included
in the Historical Tour Brochure
2:00 - 3:15 p.m. Plenary 2, Room
213 Sanford Hall
Teaching,
Using and Improving the Baldrige Criteria
for Performance Excellence
Harry S. Hertz, Director of Baldrige National Quality
Program
George S. Easton, Associate Professor of Decision &
Information Analysis, Emory University
Session Chair: Dean George Benson, University of Georgia
3:15 - 3:45 p.m. Break - Refreshments, Sanford, 2nd floor
3:45 - 5:00 p.m. Track 1, 309 Sanford Hall
We've Preached to the Choir - Now What?
Panel / workshop led by
Thomas E. Love,
Case Western Reserve University,
Curt Hinrichs,
Duxbury Press
and
Tina Konrath
Minitab Inc.
Session Chair: Keith Ord, Georgetown University
3:45 - 5:00 p.m. Track 2, 312 Sanford Hall
"The View from Faculty"
Session Chair: George Bateman, University of Chicago
Tom Johnson, North Carolina State University
Glenn Miller, Georgia Tech
Bill Carlson, St. Olaf College
6:40 - 8:15
Tour of Butts Mehre Heritage Hall, Cocktails
UGA Buses marked "MSMESB Conference" will leave the Holiday Inn
Hull Street exit at 6:40 p.m.
8:30 - 10:00 p.m. Buffet Dinner - Herty Field
Saturday, June 8
7:00 - 8:00 a.m. Planning Committee Breakfast, 327 Brooks Hall
7:00 - 8:00 a.m. Catered Buffet Breakfast, Rusk Hall, 4th Floor
8:15 - 9:15 a.m. Plenary Three, The
Future of Business Schools, 213 Sanford
P. George Benson, Dean of Terry College of Business,
University of Georgia
David S. Kidwell, former Dean of Carlson School of Management,
University of Minnesota
Ronald E. Shiffler, Dean, College of Business Administration,
Georgia Southern University
Session Chair: Professor George Tiao, University of Chicago
9:15 - 9:30 a.m. Break - Refreshments, 2nd Floor, Sanford Hall
9:30 - 10:45 a.m. Track 1, 309 Sanford Hall
Dr. Ronald D. Snee
Principal, Business Performance Excellence
Tunnell Consulting
"Statisticians: Growing from Consultants into Effective Leaders"
Session Chair: Raja Velu, Syracuse University
9:30 - 10:45 a.m. Track 2, 312 Sanford Hall
"The View from Business Users"
Milo Schield, Augsburg, Presenter and Session Chair
Tina Konrath, Minitab
Lee Crieghton, SAS/JMP
10:45 - 11:15 Break - Refreshments, 2nd Floor, Sanford Hal
11:15 - 12:30 Keynote Session - 213
Sanford Hall
Speaker - Dr. Richard L. Scheaffer, University of Florida
Past President, American Statistical Association
Presentation Title: Enhancing
Undergraduate Statistics
Session Chair: Bill Parr, University of Tennessee
MSMESB President
12:30 - 1:30 Buffet Luncheon, Dean Rusk Hall
1:30 - 2:30 Poster Session
Dr. David P. Doane, Oakland University, "Decision Modeling and Risk Analysis in Introductory Statistics"
Dr. Song-Gui Wang (presenting) and Su-Ju Win, Beijing Polytechnic University, "A New Estimate of the Parameters in Linear Mixed Models"
Dr. Matt Ball, Bosch Corporation, "The Role of Process in the Successful APplication of Statistical Methods as Improvement Tools"
Dr. Reidar Hagtvedt, Terry College of Business, University of Georgia, Dr. Gregory Todd Jones, Georgia State University, and Dr. Kari Jones, University of Georgia, "VisualRegression – A Tool to Explain the Link Between Parameters and Estimates in OLS"
Dr. Richard A. Drapeau, Lamar University, "A First Experience of Using Duane Davis' Business Research for Decision Making, 5th Edition Text in a Required MBA Course"
Dr. Stanley D. Stephenson, Southwest Texas State University, "Building a Better Database"
Dr. Nick Evaggelopoulos, Dr. Stanley A. Taylor, and Dr. Manfred W. Hopfe (presenting), California State University, Sacramento, "Evaluating the Impact of a Statistical Quality Control Case"
2:40 - 3:55 p.m.
Plenary Session 4 - 213 Sanford Hall
John Sall
Co-Founder and Executive Vice President
SAS Institute
Director, JMP Business Unit
"Technology in Statistics"
4:00 - 5:00 p.m. Wrap-Up
Session, 213 Sanford Hall
Session Chair - Bill Parr
University of Tennessee
MSMESB President
5:00 p.m. Conference Closes
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