Speaker Biography

Dr. Douglas C. Montgomery, Regents Professor, Arizona State University

Dr. Douglas C. Montgomery is the ASU Regents Professor of Engineering and Professor of Statistics at Arizona State University.  He was the John M. Fluke Distinguished Professor of Engineering, Director of Industrial Engineering and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle.  He was a Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology.  He holds BSIE, MS and Ph.D. degrees from Virginia Tech.  Dr. Montgomery's industrial experience includes engineering assignments with Union Carbide Corporation and Eli Lilly and Company.  He also has extensive consulting experience.

Dr. Montgomery's professional interests focus on industrial statistics, including design of experiments, quality and reliability engineering, applications of linear models, and time series analysis and forecasting. He also has interests in operations research and statistical methods applied to modeling and analyzing manufacturing systems.  He was a Visiting Professor of Engineering at the Monterey Institute of Technology in Monterey, Mexico, and a University Distinguished Visitor at the University of Manitoba.  Dr. Montgomery has conducted basic research in empirical stochastic modeling, process control, and design of experiments.  The Office of Naval Research, the National Science Foundation, the United States Army, and private industry have sponsored his research.  He has supervised 45 doctoral dissertations and over 40 MS theses and MS Statistics Projects.

Dr. Montgomery is an author of thirteen books, including Design and Analysis of Experiments, 5^th edition (2001), Introduction to Statistical Quality Control, 5^th edition (2005), Engineering Statistics, 3^rd edition (2004, with G. C. Runger and N. F. Hubele), Applied Statistics and Probability for Engineers, 3^rd edition (2003, with G.C. Runger), Response Surface Methodology, 2^nd edition (2002, with R. H. Myers), Generalized Linear Models (2002, with R. H. Myers and G. G. Vining), and Introduction to Linear Regression Analysis, 3^rd  edition (2001, with E. A. Peck and G. G. Vining).  Professor Montgomery has authored over 160 papers that have appeared in many archival journals, including the Journal of Quality Technology, Technometrics, Management Science, Naval Research Logistics Quarterly, IIE Transactions, Communications in Statistics, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Quality and Reliability Engineering International, IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing, Quality Engineering, Operational Research Quarterly, International Journal of Production Research, Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, and Transportation Research.  He has served as the Applied Probability and Statistics Department Editor and as the Quality and Reliability Engineering Department Editor for IIE Transactions and as an Associate Editor of the Naval Research Logistics Quarterly.  He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Quality Technology, the International Journal of Production Research, Journal of Applied Statistics, Journal of Probability and Statistical Science, Naval Research Logistics, and Quality Engineering.  He is a former Editor of the Journal of Quality Technology and is currently one of the Chief Editors of Quality and Reliability Engineering International.

Dr. Montgomery is a Fellow of the American Society for Quality Control, a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial Engineers, and an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute.  He has held several national offices in ASQC, ASA, and IIE.  He is a member of the Technical Advisory Board of the United States Golf Association.   He is a recipient of the Shewhart Medal, the William G. Hunter Award, the Brumbaugh Award, and the Shewell Award (twice) from the American Society for Quality Control.  He is also a recipient of the Ellis R. Ott Award.  He has also received several outstanding teaching awards, including the Arizona State University Engineering College Graduate Teaching Excellence Award in 1994.  He was named the ASU Outstanding Doctoral Mentor in 2004.