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This paper is from Session 4A: Statistics education and the engineering world

which comes under Topic 4: Statistics education/training and the workplace             Full topic list

(Thursday 6th, 10:30-12:30)

Achieving success in industrial training

Presenter

• Peter Martin (Australia)

Abstract

The teaching of statistical techniques to people in industry, as part of quality control or process improvement programs, can be a rewarding but somewhat daunting process for academics. Whilst the spin-offs for undergraduate teaching are numerous, and will be explored in a future paper, the biggest gains include the co-operation between the specific industry and the academic institution concerned. This paper explores some of the requirements and conditions that go towards enhancing successful industrial consultancies involving statistically based training programs provided by academics.