USDA Graduate School honors DAU as: runner-up for W. Edwards Deming Award

Program Manager, Sept-Oct, 2002

On Sept. 12, during a ceremony held at the U.S. U Department of Agriculture (USDA) Graduate School Annual Faculty Reception, the USDA Graduate School presented the W Edwards Deming Outstanding Training Award to the Air Force Audit Agency USDA also honored the Defense Acquisition University Maintenance and Logistics Command Atlantic, and Department of Energy Idaho Operations Office with the Training Recognition Award as runners-up for the 2002 W Edwards Deming Outstanding Award. Presented annually, the award honors a Federal Government civilian organization or branch of the military that has successfully completed an innovative employee development and training program.

The Deming Award honors Dr. W Edwards Deming and recognizes his 22-year career with the Graduate School as a mathematics and statistics faculty member and curriculum chair. Deming, known as the father of the Japanese post-war industrial revival, was regarded by many as a cutting-edge quality guru. Before his death in 1993, he authored hundreds of papers and published The New Economics, a synthesis of his ideas on quality and leadership.