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Professor Soren Bisgaard 

Soren Bisgaard
 

Eugene M. Isenberg Professor in Integrative Studies;

Professor of Technology Management


Telephone: 413-545-5621

Email: bisgaard@som.umass.edu

Office: SOM 307C


Education:

Ph.D., Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
M.S., Engineering, Technical University of Denmark 

Research/Teaching Interests:

Technology Management
Innovation
Six Sigma
Statistics
Experimental Design
Process Monitoring
Entrepreneurship
Quality Management
Quality Improvement


Publications/Presentations:

DeKoning, H., Does, R., Bisgaard, S. (2008), "Lean Six Sigma in Financial Services," International Journal of Six Sigma and Competitive Advantage. Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 1-17.

 

Vermaat, M. B., Does, R. and Bisgaard, S. (2008), "EWMA Control Chart Limits for First and Second Order Autoregressive Processes," Quality and Reliability Engineering International. Vol. 24, pp. 573-584.

 

Bisgaard, S. (2008), "Must a Process be in Statistical Control Before Conducting Designed Experiments?" With discussion. Quality Engineering, Vol. 20, No. 2. pp. 143-150, Response, pp. 169-176.

 

Bisgaard, S. and Huang, X. (2008), "Visualizing Principal Components Analysis for Multivariate Process Data." Journal of Quality Technology, Vol. 40, No. 3, pp. 334-344.

 

Steinberg, D. (Editor), Bisgaard, S., Fisher, N. Gunter, B., Hahn, G., Doganaksoy, N., Keller─McNulty, S., Kettering, J., Meeker, W., Montgomery, D., Wu, J., (2008), "The Future of Industrial Statistics: A Panel Discussion," Technometrics, to appear.

 

Bisgaard, S. (2008), "Geared Towards Innovation" Quality Progress, Vol. 41, No. 9, pp. 21-25.

 

Bisgaard, S. (2008), "Quality Management and Juran's Legacy", Republished, Quality Engineering, 21, pp. 390-401.

 

Does, R. Vermaat, M. B., Verver J. P. S., Bisgaard, S. and van den Heuvel, J. (2008), "Reducing Start-Time Delays in Operating Rooms, Journal of Quality Technology, Vol. 40, To appear.

 

Kaplan, S., Bisgaard, S., Truesdell, D., Zetterholm, S. (2008), Design for Six Sigma In Healthcare: Developing an Employee Influenza Vaccination Process, Journal for Healthcare Quality. To appear.

 

Vivacqua, C. A. and Bisgaard, S., (2008). "Using Strip-Block Designs as an Alternative to Reduce Costs of Experimentation in Robust Product Design and Multistage Processes." Technometrics. To appear.

 

Bisgaard, S. (2007), "Quality Management and Juran's Legacy", Quality and Reliability Engineering International, 23, pp. 665-677.

 

Bisgaard, S. and Huang, X. (2007), "Dimension Reduction of Multivariate Process data," American Statistical Association, Fall Technical Conference, Columbus, OH, 10/11/2007. 

 

Bisgaard, S. and Huang, X. (2007) "Multivariate SPC with Cross and Autocorrelated Data," American Statistical Association, Fall Technical Conference, Columbus, OH, 10/11/2007. 

 

Pre-conference Tutorial: Statistical Consulting and Change Management Workshop by Sue Ellen Bisgaard and Soren Bisgaard, Wednesday, October 11th, American Statistical Association and American Society for Quality 50th Annual Fall Technical Conference, Columbus, Ohio, October 12-13, 2007.

 

Bisgaard, S. (2007), Quality as Innovation, International Academy for Quality, Orlando FL, 5/3/2007.

 

Bisgaard, S. and Huang, X. (2007), Multivariate Dimension Reduction, The 21th New England Statistics Symposium, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 4/21/2007.

 

Bisgaard, S. (2007), Quality as Innovation Management, MAAQE VI: Multinational Alliance for the Advancement of Organizational Excellence, Versailles, France, 6/20/2007.

 

Bisgaard, S. (2007), "Quality as Innovation Management," in  Kevin Foley, K., and Hermel, P. (2008), New Perspectives on the Theories and Applications of Organizational Excellence, Sydney Australia: SAI Global/Consensus Books.

 

Bisgaard, S. and DeMast, J. (2006), "After Six Sigma - What's Next," Quality Progress, January pp. 30-36.

 

Graves, S., Bisgaard, S., Box, G., Kulahci, M. Van Gilder, J., Ting, T., Marko, K., James, J. and Zatorski, H. (2006), "Accelerated Testing of On-Board Diagnostics". Quality and Reliability Engineering - International, Vol. 23, pp. 189-201.

 

Kulahci, M. and S. Bisgaard, (2006) "A Generalization of the Alias Matrix," Journal of Applied Statistics, Vol. 33, No. 4, pp. 387-395.

 

DeKoning, H., Verver, J., van den Heuvel, J., Bisgaard, S. and Does, R. (2006), "Lean Six Sigma in Healthcare," Journal of Healthcare Quality, Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 4-11.

 

Does, R., Vermaat, T., DeKoning, H., and Bisgaard, S. (2006), "Standardizing Healthcare Projects," Six Sigma Forum Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 14-23.

 

Kulahci, M. and S. Bisgaard (2006), "The Partial Confounding and the Projection Properties of Plackett and Burman Designs," Quality and Reliability Engineering International, 22, pp. 1-10.

 

Bisgaard, S. and Huang, X. "Dimension Reduction of Multivariate Process Data," Invited presentation. American Statistical Association and American Society for Quality, 50th Annual Fall Technical Conference, Columbus, Ohio, October 12-13, 2006

 

Bisgaard, S., Kulahci, M. and Huang, X. "Multivartiate SPC with Cross and Autocorrelated Data," Invited presentation. American Statistical Association and American Society for Quality 50th Annual Fall Technical Conference, Columbus, Ohio, October 12-13, 2006.

 

Pre-conference Tutorial: Statistical Consulting and Change Management Workshop by Sue Ellen Bisgaard and Soren Bisgaard, Wroclaw, Poland, 18-20 September, 2006. 

 

Bisgaard, S. "Quality Management and Juran's Legacy." Panel discussion, Wroclaw, Poland, 18-20 September, 2006. 

 

van den Heuvel, J., Does, R., and Bisgaard, S. (2005), "Dutch Experiences Implementing Six Sigma In Healthcare." Six Sigma Forum, February, pp. 11-14.

 

Kulahci, M., and Bisgaard, S. (2005), "The Use of Plackett-Burman Designs to Construct Split Plot Designs," Technometrics, Vol. 47, No. 4, pp. 495-501.

 

Bisgaard, S. (2005), "Innovation, ENBIS and the Importance of Practice in the Development of Statistics," Quality and Reliability Engineering International, Vol. 21, pp. 429-438.

 

Soren Bisgaard and Sue Ellen Bisgaard (2005), "Statistical Consulting Skills," One day Workshop presented at the 5th Annual European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics (ENBIS) Conference, Newcastle, UK, September 17, 2005. 

 

Youden Address, ASA/ASQ 49th Annual Fall Technical Conference, St. Louis, MO, October 21, 2005.

 

Bisgaard, S., Invited panel presentation, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Annual Congress, November 10, 2005, Orlando FL: Engineering Design and Experimental Design 

 

Bisgaard, S. and Freiesleben, J. (2004), "Six Sigma and the Bottom Line." Quality Progress, Vol. 37, No. 9, pp. 57-62.

 

Quality and Productivity Research Conference, Raleigh, NC, May 19-21, 2004. Title: Dutch Experiences Implementing Six Sigma In Healthcare.

 

One-day Professional Seminar organized by Slovenian Society of Statistics, cosponsored by University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Economics, Ljubljana, Slovenia, April 6, 2004 Title: Successful Implementation of Six Sigma A Champion Overview.

 

Colloquium, Slovenian Society of Statistics, co-sponsored by University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Economics, Ljubljana, Slovenia, and Pro-ENBIS, April 7, 2004. Title: The Economic and Scientific Context of Quality Improvement and Six Sigma.

 

Box Award Invited Address: ENBIS and the Importance of Practice in the Development of Statistics, Annual European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics, The George Box Award, The Fourth European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, September, 2004.

 

Key note speaker, European Conference on Mathematics in Industry (ECMI), 2004, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, June 22, 2004

 

Box, G., Bisgaard, S., Graves, S., Van Gilder, J., Marko, K., James, F. (2003).  "Performance Evaluation of Dynamic Monitoring Systems: The Waterfall Chart," Quality Engineering.  Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 183-191.

 

One-day workshop on On-Board Diagnostics (OBD), Society of Automotive Engineers, Detroit, MI,  March 3, 2003. Title: Basic Principles for the Development and Performance Evaluation of On-Board Diagnostics.

 

INFORMS, Atlanta, GA, October 19-22, 2003, Title: Design of Experiments in Engineering Practice and Engineering Curriculum: Contributions to Panel Discussion.


Academic and Professional Activities:

Member of the Management Committee, Technometrics. 

Member, Publications Management Board, American Society for Quality. 

Member of the Editorial Review Board, Journal of Quality Technology. 

Member of Editorial Board, Quality Engineering. 

Column Editor for Quality Engineering. 

Member of the Quality Press Advisory Board

Member of selection committee for a full professorship in Applied Statistics: Statistical Practice and Consulting, 2003, Technical University of Denmark.

Chair, Shewhart Medal Committee, American Society for Quality.

Member, William G. Hunter Award Committee, American Society for Quality.

The George Box Award, European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics, 2004.

W. J. Youden Memorial Address, American Statistical Association, 2005.

Cecil C. Craig Award, 2006, Automotive Division, American Society for Quality.

Elected to the rank of Academician, 2006, International Academy of Quality. 

Management Consulting to Samsung-Corning, Seoul, Korea

Consulting for Rockwool, A/S, Copenhagen, Denmark

Management Consulting to MagnaChip, Inc., Seoul, Korea.


Grants:

IGERT: Research and Innovation in Nanoscale Device Development"
Sponsor: National Science Foundation

PI's: Mark Tuominen, Physics and James Watkins, Chemical Engineering, Co-PI's:  Soren Bisgaard and Michael Malone.