American Society for Quality, Kitchener Section #405, Canada

Welcome to the American Society for Quality Kitchener(ASQ Kitchener - Section 405) website.

Message from your Chair

Greetings! If you are a member but have not been receiving emails regarding our meetings, please sign on to the ASQ.org website to check your email preferences and that your email address on file with ASQ is correct. We are required to download and use a new list each month and can no longer maintain a separate file with updated email addresses sent to us by our members.

Are you using LinkedIn? There is a group for ASQ Kitchener in LinkedIn. This is another avenue we can use for better communication between members of our group.

Since September 2013, the leadership team has been trying out some new approaches to improve the experience for our section members. Switching to Eventbrite for registration, reducing the number of meetings that include dinner (and associated cost), and making more meetings free have all been favorably received by meeting attendees.

Going forward, we have two new elected members of the leadership team for the 2014 calendar year. Several of the non-elected positions are still available as some of the incumbents are quite willing to step down should someone else be willing to take up the reins.

We have started running education sessions this spring and hope to continue this.

Since we have determined that there are few section members who are writing exams and the exams cost us time and money to run, we have notified ASQ headquarters that we are reducing from running exams 4 times a year to running them only twice a year. Those two sessions will still allow us to offer all ASQ exams to our members annually.

We require volunteers as proctors and if we had enough volunteers we could offer the exams on the full ASQ schedule. If you are interested in being a proctor or taking over the Certification Chair role, please email us at .

Sincerely, Janet Kennedy, Chair 2012-2013

Upcoming Events

We are now using Eventbrite to announce our events and accept registrations. Registration at the door will no longer be accepted as it is too difficult to plan for attendance properly. Check out our events and register online at Eventbrite .

Certification Exams are held at Conestoga College

Look here for directions to the campus and the room.

Did you know?

If you find yourself "in transition", you can still retain your ASQ membership. Unemployed ASQ members can apply to receive a discount based on consecutive years of membership. [Learn more]