Faculty

Dr. Edward G. Schilling
Professor Emeritus

Office: 14-2513
Phone: (585) 475-6129
Email: egscta@rit.edu
Web: http://www.rit.edu/~egscta

Edward G. Schilling, Ph.D. is Professor Emeritus of Statistics in the Center for Quality and Applied Statistics, at Rochester Institute of Technology, where he has held the position of Director of the Center and Chair of the Graduate Statistics Department.

Prior to joining R.I.T. he was manager of the Lighting Quality Operation for the Lighting Business Group of the General Electric Company. He received his B.A. and M.B.A. degrees from SUNY Buffalo, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in statistics from Rutgers University. He has been on the faculties of SUNY Buffalo, Rutgers University and Case Western Reserve University. He has had extensive industrial experience in quality engineering at R.C.A. and the Carborundum Co., and in statistical consulting and quality management at General Electric. Dr. Schilling is a Fellow of the American Society for Quality, the American Statistical Association and the American Society for Testing and Materials; and he is also a member of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and American Economic Association. He is registered as a professional engineer in California and is certified by ASQ as a quality and a reliability engineer. He serves as Founding Series Editor for the Marcel Dekker series of books on Quality and Reliability, and has published extensively in the field of quality control and statistics.

Dr. Schilling was the 1983 Shewhart Medalist, the recipient of the 1999 E.L. Grant Award, the Freund-Marquardt Medal in 2005, and the Distinguished Service Medal in 2002; and is the first person to receive the Brumbaugh Award four times from the American Society for Quality. He also was the recipient of the 1984 Ellis R. Ott Award for contributions to quality management from the Metropolitan New York Section of that Society and was honored by being invited to give the 1986 W.J. Youden Memorial Address at the Joint ASQ/ASA Annual Fall Technical Conference. He was the recipient of the H.F. Dodge Award by the American Society for Testing and Materials in 1993 and the Award of Merit in 2002.

Dr. Schilling was associate editor of the fifth edition of Juran’s Quality Handbook. His two books, Acceptance Sampling in Quality Control, and Process Quality Control (with E.R. Ott and D.V. Neubauer) are among the leading texts in the field.