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Section 0102

Merrimack Valley

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The Merrimack Valley
section (# 0102) covers
NE Massachusetts and
SE New Hampshire

Established 1961

The section typically meets from Sept-June on the first Thursday of the month.

American Society for Quality
Merrimack Valley Sec. 0102
PO Box 275
North Andover, MA 01845-0275


This sight maintained by:

Jack Gale

 

 

ASQ-MV Education and Certification Exam Review Courses

NOTICE: Exam Date: March 5, 2005    Application Deadline: January 21, 2005
Exams: CRE, CMI, CQT, CHA, CQA-Biomedical, Certified Quality Manager, & Certified Six Sigma Black Belt

 

Class/Topic

Instructor

Location

Start Date

Day/Time

Duration
(weeks)

Appl. Deadline

Exam Date

Cost

CQMgr Prep

J. Perigaut

Synventive
Peabody

8/30/2005

Tue
5:30-8:30

7

8/19/2005

10/22/2005

$400

CQE Prep

K. Morman

Matrix
Hudson, NH

3/16/2005

Wed 5:30-7:30

12

4/1/2005

6/4/2005

$500

CQA Prep

D. LeSaux

Skyworks
Woburn

4/11/2005

Mon
6:00-9:00

7

4/1/2005

6/4/2005

$400

CQIA Prep

C.Priest

FLIR
Billerica

4/5/2005

Tue
6:00-8:30

8

4/1/2005

6/4/2005

$400

Lean Organizations

J. Perigaut

Synventive
Peabody

3/8/2005

Tue
5:30-7:30

5

NA

NA

$350

Directions to Course Sites       Certification Examination Schedule     Instructors Bios     Education Policy  

Checks for the registration must be made payable to ASQ-Merrimack Valley Section. We now have PayPal.
NOTE: Certification Examination Fees are not included in the Review Course fees. You must apply to ASQ.

Registration and cancellation notices are requested one week (minimum) prior to course start date to allow adequate planning for instructor and students. Registrations received with shorter notice may result in delays in text delivery to student.

Persons interested in teaching courses or students interested in courses not listed or other questions regarding education programs offered by the Merrimack Valley Section, ASQ may contact the Section education chair.

To register, select email register link with each course, or contact :

Charles Priest
(978) 658-2713
lcpriest@yahoo.com

Ken Morman, Registrar
603-883-9679
kmorman@empire.net


Course Descriptions

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Certified Quality Manager Exam Preparation- Register

Instructor: John Perigaut
Location: Synventive Molding Solutions, Peabody MA
Cost: $400 - includes Textbook ( Quality Council of Indiana CQMgr Primer, 4th Edition)

This course helps participants to prepare for the ASQ Quality Manager Certification Examination.
The course will review the "Body of Knowledge" from which exam questions are derived.

Topics include:

  • Quality Standards
  • Strategic Planning
  • Customer Satisfaction & Focus
  • Project Management
  • Continuous Improvement
  • Training & Education
  • Conduct & Ethics


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Certified Quality Engineer Exam Preparation - Register

Instructor: Ken Morman
Location: : 
Matrix Technologies Corporation, 12 Executive Drive in Hudson, NH
 Cost: $500 including text (Quality Council CQE Primer, Bound Solutions Text and Electronic Exam CD)

This course helps participants to prepare for the ASQ Quality Engineer Certification Examination. The course will review the "Body of Knowledge" from which exam questions are derived. Topics include:

  • Basics of Quality Engineering
  • Cost of Quality Plans
  • Motivation & Human Factors
  • Metrology, Inspection & Testing
  • Statistical Principles & Applications
  • Conduct & Ethics

reddot.gif (290 bytes)Certified Quality Auditor Exam Preparation - Register

Instructor: Daniel LeSaux
Location:
SkyWorks, Woburn MA -
Cost: $400 including text (CQA Primer, Quality Council of Indiana)

This course helps participants to prepare for the ASQ Quality Auditor Certification Examination. The course will review the "Body of Knowledge" from which exam questions are derived. Topics include:

  • Auditor Qualifications
  • Planning & Preparation of Audits
  • Implementation & Conduct of Audits
  • Analysis & Reporting
  • Conduct & Ethics


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Certified Quality Improvement Associate Exam Preparation - Register

Instructor: Charlie Priest
Location:  Matrix, Hudson, NH
Cost: $400 Including CQIA Primer, First Edition

Topics to be covered in the course include:

Quality Benefits and Philosophies, Team Roles and Responsibilities
Team Formation and Dynamics, Continuous Improvement
Basic Quality Tools. Quality Management Tools
Customer/supplier Relationships

reddot.gif (290 bytes)Certified Calibration Technician Exam Preparation - Register

Instructor: Jack Gale
Location: Essco, Chelmsford, MA
Cost: $400

This course helps participants to prepare for the statistics portions of the ASQ Certified Calibration Technician Examination.

reddot.gif (290 bytes)Quality Basics - Register
Instructor: B. Morin

At the completion of this course the participant will have more of an understanding of the quality function in the organization. The participant will understand inspection requirements and techniques, sampling and sampling tables, as well as having been exposed to several different quality systems.

  • What is quality?
  • Whose job is Quality?
  • Understanding company-wide quality
  • Big "Q" is for everyone
  • Little "Q" is inspection
  • The Quality system
  • Documentation
  • Sampling VS 100% Inspection
  • Introduction to Statistics

reddot.gif (290 bytes)Statistics for Quality Engineering 1 - Register

Instructor: Art Mawson
Starts: TBD
Duration: 10 sessions @ TBD
Location: TBD
Cost: $400 including text and MiniTab Student Edition Software

This course helps participants to prepare for the statistics portions of the ASQ Quality Engineering Certification Examination.

reddot.gif (290 bytes)Statistics for Quality Engineering 2 - Register

Instructor: Art Mawson
Starts: TBD
Duration: 10 sessions @ TBD
Location: TBD
Cost: $300 including text and MiniTab Student Edition Software
If you have taken Statistics for Quality Engineering 1, you do not need to purchase additional class material and the tuition is $250

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Instructor: John Perigaut
Location:  Synventive Molding Solutions, Peabody MA
Cost: $350


Instructors

reddot.gif (290 bytes)Art Mawson

Senior Quality Engineer at Koch Membrane Systems, Wilmington, MA
Over twenty years of Quality Engineering experience.
Fifteen years of experience as ASQ statistics instructor for both Merrimack Valley and Boston sections.
ASQ Certified Quality Engineer and Certified Quality Auditor.

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ASQ Certifications: CQE, CQA, CQMgr
Other certifications: Massachusetts Quality Award Examiner
Degree: Bachelor of Engineering and MBA in Finance
Current Company: Synventive Molding Solutions
Current Title: Quality Manager
Career highlights: John was a Certified trainer for Motorola's Six Sigma Course. Implemented ISO 9001 in various companies.

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Daniel LeSaux

ASQ Certifications: Senior member auditor, CQE, CQA

After earning a degree in electrical and mechanical engineering in Europe, Daniel has held positions in both large and small companies engaged in the design and manufacture of high-tech components. Daniel has over 25 years experience in the quality profession. Daniel is currently the QA Manager at Skyworks Solutions in Woburn MA. Daniel has successfully implemented and maintained ISO 9000, QS 9000, AS 9000 quality systems as well as the ISO 14001 environmental management system. Daniel is the lead auditor and coordinates all internal quality auditing activities.

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Ken Morman

ASQ Certified Quality Engineer (CQE) and Certified Quality Auditor (CQA). Holds Bachelors and 
Masters Degrees in Electrical Engineering and Masters Degree in Physics. Retired Quality Engineer 
from FLIR Systems, Inc., No. Billerica, MA. Trained in statistical quality improvement techniques directly with 
Dr. W. Edwards Deming and Dr. Lloyd S. Nelson at Nashua Corp. early 1980s. Selected as one of core group 
of trainers to introduce Deming philosophy to Nashua Corp. employees. Extensive experience in electronics
design, manufacturing, and quality. 

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Charlie Priest

 

Charlie Priest has more than 40 years in the Electronics industry as a Technician, Engineer, instructor and consultant. He has both an Associates in Science and a Bachelor in Science degrees from Northeastern University. He is a past Chairman of the Merrimack Valley Section. He has worked for many companies in the Merrimack Valley including Honeywell, Sanders and Digital Equipment.

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Jack Gale

ASQ Certifications: CQE, CCT
Degree: BS-Mechanical Engineering, UMASS-Lowell; MBA, WPI
 Career highlights: Implemented ISO 9001 and ISO/IEC 17025. Part of ASQ team to develop CCT certification program.

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Mike Difranza, PE

(Quality-CA); BS Electrical Engineering; technical staff, MITRE Corporation's Reliability & Maintainability Skills Center; Chair, Professional Development Program, ASQ-Boston.

reddot.gif (290 bytes)Barbara Morin

 

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Directions to Course Sites:

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reddot.gif (290 bytes)Essco   14 Alpha Rd, Chelmsford, MA 01824

From Route 495, take exit 35 - Route 3 South. Take exit 29, Route 129. Go West on Rt. 129, towards Chelmsford Center.
Pass Comcast and Kronos and take left onto Alpha Road at the 3M building. ESSCO is the third business on the left at 14 Alpha Road. Enter by the rear glass door.

reddot.gif (290 bytes)FLIR Systems   25 ESQUIRE RD. NO. BILLERICA MA 01862 978-901-8000

Coming from the north or south, take Rt. 3 to Exit 28, Treble Cove Rd. Go west (right) onto Treble Cove Rd. and follow it a very short distance to Republic Rd. on the right. Turn right onto Republic Rd., then right again onto Esquire Rd. Follow Esquire Rd. about one-half mile to FLIR Systems on the right, and follow the sign for Visitors.Follow Visitors sign and enter at the Main entrance .

reddot.gif (290 bytes)  Matrix Technologies Hudson, NH 03051

From the Everett Turnpike in Nashua, take Exit 2. At the end of the overpass, take a left onto Lowell Road. Go through the first set of lights (Dunkin Donuts on left). At the second set of lights, take a left onto Executive Drive.

reddot.gif (290 bytes)Merrimack College

Route 495 to Route 114 South (Andover) follow route 114 to top of hill. Merrimack College will be on the right. Room to be assigned.

reddot.gif (290 bytes)Middleton Aerospace

From I495 North or South take Exit 42A (Rt. 114 South) to Middleton, where it is called Main Street. Middleton Aerospace (206 S. Main St.) is on the left, south of the intersection with Rt. 62. Back to CQE

reddot.gif (290 bytes)Raytheon, RT 133, Tewksbury, MA

From Rt.133 and I-495, take Rt. 133 towards Lowell. Go past the Andover Raytheon facility, go past the "99" and Cracker Barrel. 1/2 mile beyond the Cracker Barrel, North street will be on the left (If you go by a Baptist church on your right, you have gone too far). Down North Street a very short distance the Raytheon entrance will be on your right.

You will have to stop just inside the entrance (signs show you where) and be cleared by a guard. Once you are in the building, an escort (Ratheon employee) will meet you at the guards desk. Back to CQManager

reddot.gif (290 bytes)  Skyworks, 20 Sylvan Rd. Woburn, MA 01801

From the North - via Route 93S to I-95 S/MA-128 S via exit 37B. Take the RT-38 exit 35 and enter next rotary and take 1st exit onto MAIN ST/MA-38 N. Turn left onto Elm St, then take immediate left onto Sylvan Rd. Follow the road around parking lot; Skyworks will be down on your right about .5 miles.

From the West, take MA-2E to I-95 N/MA-128N. Take the WINN ST exit 34,  turning left onto Winn St. Turn right onto Beacon St, which   becomes Sylvan Rd. Skyworks will be down on your right about .5 miles.

reddot.gif (290 bytes)Synventive Molding Solutions 10 Centennial Drive Peabody, MA 01960 www.synventive.com

Driving from 95/128 N: 128/95 N separates after exit 44. Stay left taking Exit 45. Follow signs towards Gloucester, 128 N. Your next exit is on the right approximately 1-mile after split. Take Exit 28. Bear right off exit. Go straight to the set of lights. (Disregard signage that directs you right for Centennial Drive.)

Left at lights onto Centennial Drive. First left, 10 Centennial Drive. As you arrive into Centennial Technology Center, take a left. Take your first right into the parking lot, right again through parking lot to our East entrance. East entrance on left.

reddot.gif (290 bytes)Triad Engineering Corp., 164 Middlesex Turnpike, Burlington, MA 01803. Back to Precision I and II

From Route 95/128: Exit 32B (Middlesex Turnpike). From the off-ramp, bear right onto Middlesex Turnpike, passing the Burlington Mall and then Tower Records on your right. Triad is on the left, at 164 Middlesex Turnpike.

From Route 3: Exit 26 (RT-62 exit toward Bedford/Burlington). Turn left on to RT-62/Burlington Rd. Continue to follow RT-62. Turn right onto Middlesex Turnpike. Triad is on the right at 164 Middlesex Turnpike.