Project Organization
The DOE project is a cooperative effort of three different
organizations:
1. Bob Peterson and Kathy Peterson from the Macomb
Intermediate School District kabob41@comcast.net
2.
Members of the DOE Users Group
The composition of this group changes as the program spreads to
different schools. The program began initially in the three magnet schools for
math/science in Macomb County.
Marie Copeland,
Macomb Math and Science Technkology Center
Ken Dupuis, Utica Math, Science and Technology Center
kd6mucs@ucs.misd.net
Rob Blume , Macomb
Acadmey of the Arts and Science.
Rob.Blume@armadaschools.org
Darlene Florio,
South Lake High School, was the first teacher to introduce the
program to non-college bound high school students.
df1msol@sol.misd.net
3.
Bert Gunter, Merck Research Labs
Bgunter@home.com
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Notes and Biographies
Bob Peterson, Math Consultant at the MISD, is chiefly
responsible for organizing and administering the project.
Prior to his work at the MISD, he taught hig school math
and science for more than twenty years. He was a participant in the Woodrow Wilson program for high
school teachers at Princeton University in 1984 when the
Quantitative Literacy Project was launched.
He received the Presidential Award for Excellence in
Science and Mathematics Teaching and has written several
mathematics texts.
Kathleen
Peterson was the Mathematics Coordinator at the Detroit College of
Business (Now
Davenport University) before she “retired” to work part-time
(?) on the DOE project. She
had written most of the lessons and has done in-service training
of teachers and in some cases has team-taught with the teachers.
She is completing a Ph.D. in Educational Evaluation and Research Methods at Wayne
State University, expecting to complete it in the Spring of 2001.
She has co-authored a math text book with her husband, Bob.
Bert
Gunter is a statistician for Merck and Co.
Bert lives in Princeton, NJ, but met Bob and Kathy Peterson
at the Woodrow Wilson program in 1984 when he was a speaker there.
He has been involved in efforts to improve statistical
education at high school, college, and professional levels for
over 15 years. Active
in promoting use of statisics in business and industry, he has
written a regular column on statistics for Quality
Progress magazine and has written books on statistical and
quality training in industry.
He developed materials which you can read in So
What
is DOE, anyway? He
has provided training and ongoing technical support for the
project.
Special
recognition should go to Kala Smith, who is now retired, but was
instrumental, along with Marie Copeland in introducing DOE at the Macomb Math Science Technology
Center.
Board of Advisors
The project is aided by a Board of Advisors consisting
of distinguished statisticians and educators. We are very
grateful for their support and advice. We invite you to
meet them through the short biographies that we have
provided here. Click on a name below:
Charles R. Allan
Charles R. Allan has been the mathematics education
consultant for the Michigan Department of Education for
ten years. Prior to that appointment, he was a
mathematics teacher for 16 years for the Detroit Public
Schools. In his present position, he is co-director of
the Michigan Curriculum Framework Project and of the
Michigan Mathematics Education Coalition; and is the
mathematics consultant to the Michigan Statewide
Systemic Initiative and the Michigan Dwight D.
Eisenhower Mathematics and Science Improvement ACT
program.
Mr. Allan has an M.A. degree, Secondary Continuing
Certification and Middle School Endorsement from the
University of Michigan and BA in mathematics from the
University of Windsor.
He currently serves as an advisor to many
organizations, including the Council of Chief State
School Officers, the Education Commission of the States
and the Addison-Wesley Publishing Company. Nationally,
he has been and continues to be active in many math and
science education initiatives. Among his current
activities, he is an advisor to projects funded by the
National Science Foundation, The U.S. Department of
Education, and the Mathematical Sciences Education
Board. He is also state coordinator of the Michigan
Presidential Awards program, among many other duties.
Mr. Allan is active in many professional
organizations. Among these are National Council of
Teachers of Mathematics, the National Council of
Supervisors of Mathematics and the Mathematical
Association of America.
Mr. Allan has retired from MDE in 2002. He is
still on the Board of Advisors.
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George E.P. Box
George Box is one of the world's leading
statisticians. He has made fundamental contributions to
the theory and practice of statistically designed
experiments, robust statistical methods, Bayesian
methods, and time series analysis and control. He has
also originated many widely used methods for product and
process improvement, in particular Response Surface
Methodology and Evolutionary Operation. Currently he is
Professor Emeritus and Director of Research at the
Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Professor Box received PhD and D.Sc. degrees in
mathematical statistics from the University of London
and honorary doctorates from the University of
Rochester, Carnegie-Mellon University, and the
University of Madrid (Spain). He was for many years a
practicing statistician with Imperial Chemical
Industries in England. In 1960, he founded the
Department of Statistics at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison, leading its development into one of
the foremost statistical departments in the world.
Professor Box has been active in several professional
societies and been recognized with numerous honors. He
is a Fellow of the Royal Society of London, a Fellow of
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Fellow
and Past Vice President of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science. He is also a Past President
and Fellow of both the American Statistical Association
and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and a
Fellow, Shewhart, and Deming Medalist of the American
Society for Quality Control. He is also a recipient of
the Gold Medal of the Royal Statistical Society.
He has published over 150 papers and co-authored many
well-known books, including The Design and Analysis
of Industrial Experiments, Statistical Methods in
Research and Production, Time Series Analysis
Forecasting and Control, Bayesian Inference in
Statistical Analysis, Evolutionary Operation, Statistics
for Experimenters, and Empirical Model Building and
Response Surfaces.
Professor Box is renowned as a lively and interesting
lecturer and teacher. He has given hundreds of invited
talks and supervised the PhD dissertations of dozens of
students, many of whom have gone on to make important
contributions on their own.
A. Blanton Godfrey
A. Blanton Godfrey is Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer of Juran Institute, Inc., one of the
world s leading companies in providing consulting,
support materials, and resources for managing for
quality. Prior to joining the Juran Institute in August,
1987, Dr. Godfrey headed the Quality Theory and
Technology Department at AT&T Bell Laboratories in
Holmdel, New Jersey.
Dr. Godfrey hold an MS and PhD in Statistics from
Florida State University and a BS in Physics from
Virginia Tech. He is an Adjunct Professor at Columbia
University where he teaches a graduate course in quality
management and control in the School of Engineering and
Applied Science.
Dr. Godfrey is a Fellow of the American Statistical
Association and the American Society for Quality
Control, a member of Sigma Xi, an Academician of the
International Academy for Quality, a member of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science, and
a member of the New York Academy of Sciences. He was
active in the international technical committee that
created the ISO 9000 series of quality management
standards. He has published over fifty articles and book
chapters and two books. He is a co-author of Modern
Methods for Quality Control and Improvement (John
Wiley and Sons, 1986), named book of the year by the
Institute of Industrial Engineers in 1987. He is also a
co-author of Curing Health Care: New Strategies for
Quality Improvement (Jossey-Bass, 1990).
From 1987 through 1990, he contributed to the creation
of the Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award and
served as a judge for the first three years of the
award. In 1992 he received the Edwards Medal from the
American Society for Quality Control for his outstanding
contributions to the science and practice of quality
management.
Lynne B. Hare
Lynne B. Hare is Chief, Statistical Engineering
Division at the National Institute of Standards and
Technology in Washington, D.C.. He previously worked for
more than 15 years at the Thomas J. Lipton Company,
where he was first Manager of Statistical Services and
later Director of Technical Services. He has worked and
published extensively in the application of the
statistical design of experiments to formulation
problems, especially in the food industry.
Dr. Hare holds M.S. and PhD degrees from Rutgers
University and a B.A. degree from Colorado College. His
professional publications have appeared in Technometrics,
Journal of Quality Technology, and other
applications journals. He was one of the co-editors of
the popular book of case studies, Experiments in
Industry, published by the Chemical and Process
Industries Division of the American Society for Quality
Control. He has also served on the editorial board of
both the Journal of Quality Technology andTechnometrics,
where he is currently a member of the management
committee.
Dr. Hare is a Fellow of both the American Statistical
Association and the American Society for Quality
Control. He is past chairperson of the ASQC's Statistics
Division and is chair-elect of the ASA's Quality and
Productivity section and has won two testimonial awards
and the Ellis R. Ott Award for excellence in quality
management.
J. Stuart Hunter
J. Stuart Hunter is Professor Emeritus, School of
Engineering and Applied Science, Princeton University.
He is presently a statistical consultant to industry and
government. Professor Hunter is one of the world’s
foremost expositors and teachers of statistics,
particularly statistical experimental design and
statistics for the engineering and physical sciences. He
has given many short courses in these areas for
technical societies and was the instructor in three
television series on applied statistics, control
charting, and experimental design. He has also lectured
throughout the world, most notably at the Korean
Standards Research Institute (1979) and the National
Center for Industrial Science and Technology Management
Development, Dalian, China (1981, 1982).
Professor Hunter received his PhD in Experimental
Statistics from the Institute of Statistics, North
Carolina State University. His B.S. is in Electrical
Engineering and his M.S. is in Engineering Mathematics
from the same institution. He has published many
professional papers in the fields of experimental design
and statistical process control, and is the founding
editor of Technometrics, a journal of statistics
for the Physical, Chemical, and Engineering Sciences. He
is the coauthor (with I. Guttman and S.S. Wilks) of the
popular texts, Introductory Engineering Statistics
and (with G.E.P. Box and W.G. Hunter) Statistics for
Experimenters. He is also an editor of the John
Wiley series on Probability and Statistics.
Professor Hunter is a Fellow and Past President of the
American Statistical Association, and a Fellow of the
American Society for Quality Control, The Royal
Statistical Society, and the American Association for
the Advancement of Science. He is also a member of the
ASTM, AIChE, IIE, IMS and Biometrics Society and a
founding member of the Environmetrics Society. He is a
Chartered Statistician. He has been a staff member of
the National Academy of Science, Committee on National
Statistics, and Chairman of the Advisory Board, Applied
Mathematics, National Bureau of Standards (now the
National Institute for Standards and Technology). He has
also served as chairman of the Committee of Presidents
of Statistical Societies.
His numerous awards include the S. Wilks Medal, U.S.
Army, the Outstanding Statistician of the Year Ward,
Chicago (1987), the Deming Medal, Shewhart Medal, and
the Ellis Ott and Brumbaugh Award(twice) of the American
Society for Quality Control.
Ronald L. Iman
Ronald L. Iman has been a statistician at Sandia
National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM since 1975. He
is currently a Distinguished Member of the Technical
Staff in the Manufacturing Systems Reliability group.
Prior to joining Sandia, Dr. Iman was Assistant
Professor at Western Michigan University and a
Statistical Consultant for the UpJohn Company, among
several other positions.
Dr. Iman holds a PhD and M.S. in Statistics from
Kansas State University, an M.A. in Mathematics from
Emporia State University, and a B.S. in Math Education
from Kansas State University. He has authored over 75
professional publications, over 50 reports, and more
than 130 professional presentations. He is also author
or co-author of six textbooks, including Modern
Business Statistics (John Wiley, 1989 — with W.J.
Conover) and A Data-Based Approach to Statistics
(Duxbury, 1994).
Dr. Iman is a Fellow of the American Statistical
Association, and a member of the American Society for
Quality Control, The Biometrics Society, and The Society
for Risk Analysis. He served as President of the
American Statistical Association in 1994.
He has received the ASA Founders Award and the Don
Owen Award from the American Statistical Association and
the Shewell Award from the American Society for Quality
Control. He is also an eight-time winner of the
outstanding presentation award from the Section on
Physical and Engineering Sciences of the American
Statistical Association and received the Distinguished
Alumni Award from Emporia State University.
Manert Kennedy
Manert Kennedy is the Executive Director of the
Colorado Alliance for Science, headquartered at the
University of Colorado at Boulder, where he also teaches
in the Department of Environmental, Population and
Organismic Biology. Dr. Kennedy is widely recognized for
his ability to bring business, industry, education and
political groups together to address and solve problems
in education at the state and local levels. He received
the 1988 McKee Award from the National Symposium on
Partnerships in Education, a White House program by the
Education Committee of the Presidential Board of
Advisors, for his leadership in public/private
partnership development in education.
Dr. Kennedy is recognized as the Father of
the Alliance for Science movement in the U.S. and
abroad. He was the founder of the Colorado Alliance in
1982 which has since proliferated to over 700 such
alliances throughout the U.S. These broad-based
coalitions among schools, higher education, business and
government are the backbone of science, math and
technology education reform in many states and regions
of the country.
Kennedy taught science (and coached football) in
Detroit area secondary school for ten years/ He also has
extensive background in education research,
administration and international education. He was
involved from the earliest days in the development of
the Biological Science Curriculum Study (BSCS), the
largest of the post-Sputnik education reform efforts in
the U.S., and served as the Associate Director of the
BSCS at the University of Colorado for 17 years.
Dr. Kennedy has published several books and more than
100 papers and films. He is widely known for his work in
the area of teaching science as inquiry. He has received
numerous national and international awards, among them
Butler University’s Lifetime of Achievement Award in
1993. He has been active in several professional
organizations and served as President of the National
Association of Biology Teachers in 1979.
Gary C. McDonald
Gary C. McDonald is Head, Consumer and Operations
Research Department at the General Motors Research &
Development Center in Warren, Michigan. Prior to holding
this position, he was Head of the Mathematics
Department. In addition to his management duties at GM,
Dr. McDonald has been an active researcher in applied
statistics, having authored or co-authored more than 40
papers in technical journals in a variety of applied and
theoretical areas. He is also active in mathematical
education and serves on the Board of Directors of the
MATHCOUNTS foundation.
Dr. McDonald holds M.S. and PhD degrees in statistics
from Purdue University and a B.A. degree from St.
Mary’s College (Winona, MN). He is a Fellow of the
American Statistical Association, the Institute of
Mathematical Statistics, American Association for the
Advancement of Science. He is also a member of Sigma Xi
and the Bernoulli Society. In addition to these
professional activities, he has also been actively
involved in the National Research Council and is a
member of the Board of Trustees of the National
Institute of Statistical Sciences.
Dr. McDonald’s expertise and experience has been
widely sought by others. He has served on math and
statistics advisory committees for four universities and
is adjunct Professor of Mathematics at Oakland
University He has also served on the editorial board for
four statistical research journals (Technometrics,
Communications in Statistics, Naval Research Logistics
Quarterly, and the Journal of Statistical
Planning and Inference). He has also been an active
member of several committees of the American Statistical
Association and Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
David S. Moore
David S. Moore is Professor of Statistics at Purdue
University, where he has been a member of the faculty
since 1967. He received his A.B. from Princeton and the
Ph.D. from Cornell. He has written many research papers
in statistical theory and served on the editorial boards
of the Journal of the American Statistical
Association, Technometrics, and the International
Statistical Review.
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Professor Moore is an elected fellow of the American
Statistical Association and of the Institute of
Mathematical Statistics, and an elected member of the
International Statistical Institute. He has served as
program director for statistics and probability at the
National Science Foundation.
In recent years, Professor Moore has devoted his
attention to the teaching of statistics. He was the
content developer for the Annenberg/Corporation for
Public Broadcasting college-level telecourse Against
All Odds: Inside Statistics and for the recent
series of video modules Statistics: Decisions Through
Data, intended to aid the teaching of statistics in
schools. He is the author of influential articles on
statistics education and of several leading texts, and
editor (with David C. Hoaglin) of the Mathematical
Association of America volume Perspectives on
Contemporary Statistics.
Professor Moore is currently president of the
International Association for Statistical Education, and
is one of the 1994 recipients of the Mathematical
Association of America's national award for
distinguished college or university teaching of
mathematics.
Richard Scheaffer
Dr. Richard Scheaffer is Professor of Statistics at
the University of Florida, Gainesville. He is widely
known for his work in statistical education. Since 1980
he has been one of the leaders and principal
contributors in the American Statistical Association’s
Quantitative Literacy Program, which provides
materials and inservice workshops for mathematics
teachers throughout the K-12 curriculum. He has also
authored materials for this program, published by the
Dale Seymour company. Currently, he directs an
NSF-funded program on Activity-Based Statistics which is
attempting to improve the hands-on component of teaching
statistical concepts. He is also a member of the AP
Statistics Test Development Committee of the College
Board.
Dr. Scheaffer holds a PhD in statistics from Florida
State University, an M.S. in statistics from Bucknell,
and a B.S. in mathematics in from Lycoming University.
He is the author of many professional papers and has
co-authored four statistics texts. He is a Fellow of the
American Statistical Association and has received the
Association's Founder's Award.
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Dr. Kent Voigt
Dr. Kent Voigt is the Interim Assistant Superintendant of
the Macomb Intermediate School District. He is
the director of Consultant Services.
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