(Quality Digest: May 29, 2009) -- The first Hamdan Bin Mohammed e-University Medal was awarded to H. James Harrington, Ph.D., on April 8 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), for his efforts to support quality education throughout the UAE, and for his leadership as chairman of the advisory board of the e-TQM College. The college was the first e-learning educational institution in the Middle East.

Harrington is the CEO for the Harrington Institute, in California, and for Harrington Middle East, in Dubai, providing a full range of consulting services including management, technology, education, e-learning, knowledge, and Six Sigma solutions. For more than 11 years, he’s shared his knowledge with Quality Digest’s readers in his column “Performance Improvement.” Harrington served 10 years as an A-level member on the ISO/TC 176, the technical committee responsible for revising the ISO 9000 series of quality management standards. During the mid-1980s he served as president and then as chairman of the American Society for Quality (ASQ), two of the many achievements earned during his 20-plus-year membership with ASQ. Traveling the globe through these endeavors, he’s served in the honorary role as president of the Asia-Pacific Quality Control Organization, director for the Association Chilean de Control de Calidad, and as quality advisor to the Chinese government.

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