Honors and Awards

2006 Elected Fellow, American Society for Quality.

2004 A. D. Welliver Summer Faculty Fellow, The Boeing Company.

2003 Selected as a Webstar, Florida State University for innovative use of web-based tools for learning. http://online.fsu.edu/webstars/stars/pignatiello.html

2002 Engineering Education Award in appreciation of exceptional contributions to curriculum development and implementation at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering.

2001 IIE Transactions Best Quality and Reliability Engineering Paper Award for “Uniqueness and Convergence of Solutions to ARL Integral Equations in CUSUM and Other Control Charts,” (co-authors: Venkateshwara Rao and Ralph Disney).

1998 Best Paper Award, “in recognition of the contribution to the quality management literature,” Quality Management Conference, Tempe, AZ, February 13-14, 1998 (co-authors: M. Scott Poole and Tina Barr).

1994 The Shewell Award, American Society for Quality Control, Chemical and Process Industries Division, for best research paper and presentation, “Process Capability Studies and Indices: Some Fundamental Issues” (co-author: John S. Ramberg).

1994 The Cecil C. Craig Award, American Society for Quality Control, Automotive Division, for “Process Capability Indices: Just Say NO!” (co-author: John S. Ramberg) which was judged as a significant contribution to the advancement of quality control in the automotive industry.

1992 Recognized by the student chapter of the Institute of Industrial Engineering one of their Most Valuable Professors (MVPs).

1991 The Ellis R. Ott Foundation Award for the best research paper in the area of quality improvement, “Top Ten Triumphs and Tragedies of Genichi Taguchi” (co-author: John S. Ramberg).

1991 Old Gold Fellowship, The University of Iowa.

1990 The Ellis R. Ott Foundation Research Award for the best research paper in the area of quality engineering, “Adaptive Sampling for Process Control” (co-author: George C. Runger).

1990 The University of Iowa Collegiate Teaching Award. This University-level faculty achievement award is the highest honor for excellence in teaching at the University of Iowa.

1987 Teaching Excellence Citation, Student Voice, University of Arizona.

1985 Award of Excellence, Institute of Industrial Engineers, Chapter Development Program for the University of Arizona.

1978 Alpha Pi Mu, Industrial Engineering Honor Society.

1976 B.S. awarded Magna Cum Laude from the University of Massachusetts.