Faculty

Dr. Joseph G. Voelkel
Graduate Program Chair

Office: 14-2544
Phone: (585) 475-2231
Email: jgvcqa@rit.edu

Web: http://people.rit.edu/~jgvcqa

Joseph G. Voelkel, Ph.D., is a Professor and Graduate Program Chair in the Graduate Statistics Department at The John D. Hromi Center for Quality and Applied Statistics at Rochester Institute of Technology. Prior to this appointment, he was a statistical consultant for Allied-Signal Corporation (now Honeywell), where his clients' concerns included chemicals, plastics, fibers, water-treatment polymers, and agricultural products. He has also served on the faculty at the University of Wisconsin, where he worked in cancer research, and as an adjunct at Canisius College.

Since joining the faculty at RIT, his consulting and training has included clients from the films, optics, electronics, resin, plastics, automotive, laser, and bearing industries. His primary areas of expertise include experimental design, quality control and improvement, mixture experiments, reliability, and analysis of messy data. Dr. Voelkel received his BS in Mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, his MS in Industrial Engineering/Management Sciences from Northwestern University, and his Ph.D. in Statistics from University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is a fellow of the American Society for Quality, and a member of the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. He also serves on the editorial board of Quality Engineering.