Richard A.Freund International Scholarship in USA: awards $5,000 worth of scholarship to deserving students.
ASQ is committed to providing enhanced expertise, professional networks, tools, and solutions to help our members promote their products, services, and industries. We provide professional training, certification and knowledge to members around the world.
ASQ is a global organization with members in more than 130 countries. We have our headquarters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and we also have centers in Mexico, India and China. Our association is comprised of a community of members, helping members make connections with other high-quality professionals and practitioners, enhance their knowledge and careers, and become opinion leaders.
At ASQ headquarters, we create tools and resources and provide the necessary support to help our member leaders continue to provide these opportunities. Our Quality Progress magazine, ASQTV online video series, Quality Resource Library and international conferences are all examples of the resources we provide and the opportunities that have significant impact and value creation on our members and customers.
Our mission: ASQ enables people and communities around the world to achieve excellence through quality.
Our Vision: ASQ will be the thought leader and preferred community for those who pursue excellence.
This scholarship honors the memory of Richard A. Freund, a past president of ASQ. It is for graduate study of the theory and application of quality control, quality assurance, quality improvement, and total quality management. It covers the engineering, statistical, managerial, and behavioral foundations of those fields.
The annual application deadline is April 1.
The study may take place in one’s own country or in another country.
Applicants do not need to be ASQ members
Applicants should have a GPA of 3.25 or higher (undergraduate and graduate)
Concentration must be in quality control, quality assurance, quality improvement, total quality management, or similar quality emphasis.
All nationalities
The award is made by July 1 of each year. The approximate amount of the yearly award will be $5,000.