2015 QPRC

Janet Myhre, Honored Guest

Wednesday Evening Banquet

 

Consulting U Education

 

Examples from lessons learned in problem solving consulting will be discussed. The relevance of these lessons learned to the general area of problem solving education and statistical thinking for both consultants and for students will be explored. The clinic concept, an externally funded program whose purpose was to provide real life consulting projects to students, will also be discussed.

 

Bio

This year, the conference is pleased to honor Dr. Janet Myhre, Professor Emeritus at Claremont McKenna College, following over 40 years as Professor of Statistics. Her teaching at Claremont McKenna featured her creation of "Clinic," which was a program funded externally to provide real-life consulting projects for students. Concurrent with her academic career, she formed her own consulting company to work on reliability problems for the Navy, and continues to do so to this day. She has made tremendous impact at the Navy, especially integrating the use of fault trees into their culture. She has also worked on confidence bounds for complex reliability systems. She is trusted by high-ranking Navy officers as an independent reviewer of all reliability projects, and her current contributions were recognized by a prestigious lifetime achievement award. Dr. Myhre is an ASA Fellow, was the leader of the Southern California Chapter of the ASA for many years, and still serves as Chapter Representative.