ASQ Section 0511 August 2022 Meeting Announcement

Starts:  Aug 10, 2022 11:00 PM (UTC)
Ends:  Aug 11, 2022 12:30 AM (UTC)
Associated with  Northern Virginia Section

Wednesday, 10 August 2022



Community Matters: Connections by Divisions



Presented by Ken Rapuano

ASQ Section 0511 Vice Chair and Compliance Officer




Short Narrative/Description:



ASQ Section 0511 is a community of quality professionals of Northern Virginia. But geography is not the only principle used by ASQ to organize communities. Topic and industry-specific communities are formed based on member interests. They are member-led communities that include divisions, forums, interest groups, and technical communities.



Community Matters is a Section 0511 Initiative that parallels its Quality Matters initiative:



  • In the Quality Matters initiative, the Section members define and select areas of their interest and discuss their experience with questions about each such area at a Round Table led by a Moderator.

  • In this new Community Matters initiative, Section 0511 will take a look at the communities that already exist in ASQ such as Divisions, Forums, and other types. A Quality Professional will provide an overview of an ASQ Community, present one’s personal experience of engaging with that Community, and present and discuss an interesting material from that Community.
    • This new initiative is presented now in August 2022 as Community Matters: Connections by Divisions.


Community Matters Timeline:



Today’s Speaker, Ken Rapuano, is the Lead of the Community Matters Initiative.



  • In the first presentation in this initiative, Mike Coleman presented the Reliability and Risk Division (RRD) in October 2021 and its material on Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) in November 2021:

  • At upcoming Section 0511 meetings, Ken Rapuano will present his own Energy and Environmental Division (EED) and its materials, including his related experience as a Quality Professional in an environmental firm.

  • At meetings afterwards, Ken Rapuano will lead other Quality Professionals in presenting their Communities. You can see the list of ASQ Communities here:

Program Content:



In Ken’s August 2022 presentation, you will see the following:



  • First, Ken will explain the ASQ communities: Divisions, Forums, and other formations.
    • This includes who participates in them and the role that publications, web sites, and emails play in their work.

    • This also includes how ASQ certifications align with such communities.


  • Then, Ken will show the format of a review of an ASQ Community using Mike Coleman’s pioneering presentations of October and November 2021 on ASQ Divisions: RRD and GD&T.
    • This includes a discussion of the community, review of its materials, perhaps also an exchange of contributions with the community being reviewed.


  • Finally, Ken will briefly review the roster of the ASQ Communities as noted here:

Speaker Background:



Ken Rapuano is a Senior Chemist at HydroGeoLogic, Inc., a Reston-based environmental firm. He has been an IHMM-Certified Hazardous Materials Manager (CHMM) since 2010 and an ASQ-Certified Quality Auditor (CQA) since 2015.



His expertise includes analytical chemistry, data validation and usability assessments, and health and safety. He also supports database management and risk assessment.



Outside of work, he is still playing Dungeons and Dragons and has been known to take an occasional interest in beer brewing, history, sports, computer games, and cats.



Ken was elected as the Section 0511 Secretary for 2019-2021, then was elected as the Section