On behalf of the selection committee, we announce that the 2024 Gerald J. Hahn Q&P Achievement Award recipient is Frederick W. Faltin of Virginia Tech.
Over his 40+ year career, Fred Faltin has made significant contributions as a researcher, consultant, author, and educator. He has successfully applied statistical quality and productivity methods across many problem domains, and through his publications and presentations, has promoted their use by others. Fred is best known for his work in process control and statistical process monitoring, design of experiments, and as a corporate research manager and international consultant. He was elected a Fellow of ASA in 2002.
Fred was deeply involved in quality and productivity improvement across many of General Electric's businesses and founded the data science laboratory at GE Research. After his career at GE, Fred co-founded a consulting company which supported organizations around the world in domains ranging from manufacturing to financial services, healthcare, and corporate real estate.
Fred has successfully promoted quality and productivity techniques through the publication of technical and non-technical papers and articles in refereed journals, magazines, and book chapters. He was co-Editor-in-Chief of three books in applications of statistics, including the highly cited Encyclopedia of Statistics in Quality and Reliability. Through the many professionals he has trained and mentored in courses, tutorials and seminars, his work has delivered incalculable value to individuals' careers and to the product and process design and improvement of their employers. Fred's ability to translate sophisticated statistical concepts and into real-world applications that non-statistical operators and managers could understand and apply has been a key to his impact. Methods that Fred developed and taught are now routinely used by practitioners across the globe as part of their everyday jobs.
Fred currently serves as Professor of Practice in the Department of Statistics at Virginia Tech, where he teaches the theory and practice of Data Science in VT's Computational Modeling and Data Analytics curriculum. In this role, he is promoting awareness and use of statistics for organizational quality and productivity improvement to the next generation of professional data scientists. Fred is a natural teacher whose wealth of personal and business experience greatly benefits his students.
Fred Faltin has demonstrated outstanding and sustained achievement and leadership in developing, promoting, and successfully improving the quality and productivity of products, services, and organizational performance using statistical concepts. He is an exceptionally deserving recipient of the prestigious ASA Gerald J. Hahn Q&P Achievement Award.
Congratulations Fred!!
Note: The Gerald Hahn Award recipient will give the Q&P plenary address at the Fall Technical Conference
Nominations for the 2025 award will be open later in the year.
Maria Weese2024 Chair, Q&P