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Dean Neubauer

Engineering Fellow
Corning Incorporated

My name is Dean Neubauer and I am the co-author of the best-selling text on acceptance sampling, "Acceptance Sampling in Quality Control, 2nd ed." published in 2009. I teach a course in acceptance sampling each year for the M.S. program in statistics at RIT, and am very active in the area of acceptance sampling standards for ASTM, ISO and ANSI/ASQ.

Biography

Dean is an Engineering Fellow in the Process Engineering Directorate in the Manufacturing, Technology and Engineering (MTE) Division at Corning Incorporated.  He has worked for Corning since 1981 and has been involved in projects in every major business over this time. He has thirteen U.S. patents for compositional work on a variety of materials.  His background includes degrees in statistics from Iowa State University and Rochester Institute of Technology.

Outside of Corning, Dean has taught as an Adjunct Professor in the M.S. program for the Center for Quality and Applied Statistics at R.I.T. since 1992.  He also participates on the ASTM E-11 Committee on Quality and Statistics where he is the current Chairman.  Dean is a book reviewer for the Technometrics and Journal of Quality Technology journals, serves on the Editorial Board of the Quality Engineering journal, is the co-author of Process Quality Control, 4th Edition, and is co-author of Acceptance Sampling in Quality Control, 2nd edition.  He is also the U.S. Lead Delegate to the ISO Technical Committee 69 on Statistical Methods Subcommittee SC5 on Acceptance Sampling.  In this role, he is responsible for the review of ISO, as well as, ANSI/ASQ Z acceptance sampling standards.

Dean was elected a Fellow of the American Society for Quality (ASQ) in 2000 and is a Certified Quality Engineer. Dean is also a Past Chair of the ASQ’s Chemical and Process Industries Division and a Past Chair of the Corning-Elmira ASQ Section.  He is a recipient of the 2003 Shewell Award from ASQ and the 2011 Harold F. Dodge Award from ASTM.  He has also been a Member of the American Statistical Association since 1979.  In 1993, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society in London, England and holds the certification of Chartered Statistician.  In 2010, he was given the Award of Merit carrying the title of Fellow from the American Society for Testing Materials (ASTM).

Education

Areas of Research / Professional Expertise

acceptance sampling, experimental design (including mixture designs), statistical process control, graphical methods of data analysis, data mining

Personal Interests

golf

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