TAINAN, Taiwan - (Business Wire) Prof. Jeh-Nan Pan, the Vice Dean of the NCKU College of Management and Professor of Statistics Department, was honored with the Quality Award of Year 2009 from Chinese Society for Quality with his paper entitled “A Comparative Study on Evaluating Air Quality of Taiwan Using Various Multivariate Process Capability Indices”. This is his fourth time to receive the same award. He will be conferred with this award at 3:30 pm, November 7th on GIS NTU Convention Center, Taipei, Taiwan. Global ecosystems in the advent of high-technology development with the problems of the air, water and land pollution such as greenhouse effect, human respiratory system damage, plants damage led to the globalization crisis. In order to further protect the environmental ecosystem and to achieve global sustainability, the governments around the world start to establish the regulations stipulated by environmental protection agency of each country. Therefore, how to regulate the environmental performance becomes an important research issue now.
The multivariate process capability index established by Niverthi and Dey in 2000 is based on the assumption of normality. However, the air pollution data may not follow the normal distribution. In Prof. Pan’s study, he provided Revised Niverthi-Dey (RND) index with using percentile estimation and Revised Taguchi’s quadratic loss function; and then indicated the results of comparative and evaluative study in air quality capability by using the concept of coverage probability with various multivariate process capability indices. Finally, RND index can reflect the air quality capability much more precisely to indicate the real situation of air pollution in Taiwan.
About Prof. Jeh-Nan Pan
Prof. Jeh-Nan Pan received his Ph.D. from Dept. Industrial Engineering at Texas Tech University (TTU), USA, 1984. He received CQE Certificate E-8570 and CRE Certificate R-2039. He received many awards regarding reducing the scrap-rate by promoting Total Quality Management (TQM) and employee trainings when he served as the chief engineer and senior quality specialist in Relay Division of Leach International, Los Angeles. Moreover, He has been a professor teaching engineering statistics, operating research and quantitative method in California State University (also known as Cal State, CSU) and University of Southern California (USC).
In 1992, Prof. Pan came back to Taiwan and established the Statistical Consulting Center in NCKU. He has assumed the duties as the visiting scholar/professor of University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2000. He promoted the exchange of research and academic staff and students between Dept. of Management Sciences of City University of Hong Kong (CityU) and NCKU when he was the Chairperson of Dept. of Statistics from 2001 to 2004. He is now the Vice Dean of College of Management as well as the Chairperson of Institute of International Management (IIM) as the incumbent. He has devoted himself to many international programs such as academic exchange, student exchange programs, international conference, and Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) certification.
Prof. Pan has published more than 70 papers about statistical quality management and reliability analysis in academic journals. In addition, he edited two Chinese textbooks about preventive quality assurance and quality management. He also co-authored “Creating Quality” with Dr. William J. Kolarik, who is now the Dean of College of Industrial Engineering at Oklahoma State University (OSU), U.S.A., published by McGraw-Hill Company in 1995. He has served duties as the associate editor of Journal of Quality, Journal of Management & Systems, Journal of Probability and Statistical Science (JPSS), International Journal of Management and Enterprise Development (IJMED), and Asia Pacific Management Review.
Prof. Pan has received “Quality Award” in 1996, 1999, 2001 and this year. In addition, he was also honored with “Research Outstanding Teacher Award” from College of Management in 2006, “Excellent Teaching Award”, “Remarkable Teacher Award” and “Marquis Who’s Who in World” in 2008.
About National Cheng Kung University (NCKU):
NCKU is located in the ancient city of Tainan, the historical and ancient cultural capital city of Taiwan, which boasts more than 50 national relics sanctioned by the government and is approximately 250 kilometers south of Taipei. It is connected to all major cities in Taiwan by the recently initiated state-of-the-art Taiwan High Speed Rail. Further, this historical heritage is the pride of Tainan City and represents a rich cultural resource to NCKU. The technological sectors in the Southern Taiwan Science Park offer students at NCKU with a stage to apply what they have learned into practice.
With three quarters of a century of distinguished history, with well over 130,000 powerful alumni now dotting the globe, many have achieved supreme successes in arts, business, education, science, technology and healthcare and are ready and willing to assist the 22,000 academic selective students and 1200 academic faculty members. Currently, both have an international flavor, with enormous regional support, and there is a permeating culture of proactive intellectual growth on the world’s stage NCKU in Tainan, Taiwan, has evolved from its engineering genesis into a powerful and comprehensive research international university in the Asia Pacific.
Since NCKU’s establishment in 1931, it has developed into a research intensive and comprehensive university with integrated academic fields in nine colleges: Liberal Arts, Sciences, Engineering, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Planning & Design, Management, Social Sciences, Medicine, and Bioscience & Biotechnology. NCKU currently offers 40 undergraduate programs (excluding the Program of Bachelor’s Degree), 78 master’s degree programs, 54 doctoral programs and 20 master’s degree programs for working professionals.
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