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Harold F. Dodge | |
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| Born | Harold French Dodge (1893-01-23)January 23, 1893 Lowell, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | December 10, 1976(1976-12-10) (aged 83) |
| Education | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS) Columbia University (MA) |
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| Spouse | |
| Children | 3 |
| Father | William Hanson Dodge |
| Awards | Shewhart Medal |
Harold French Dodge (January 23, 1893 – December 10, 1976) was one of the principal architects of the science ofstatistical quality control. He is known for his work in originatingacceptance sampling plans for putting inspection operations on a scientific basis in terms of controllable risks.
Harold French Dodge[1] was born on January 23, 1893,[citation needed] inLowell, Massachusetts.[2][3] His father was the photographerWilliam Hanson Dodge.[citation needed] Dodge graduated with aBachelor of Science in electrical engineering from theMassachusetts Institute of Technology in 1916. He graduated with aMaster of Arts in mathematics and physics fromColumbia University in 1922.[1][2][3]
Dodge worked as a quality result engineer atBell Labs in New York City from 1917 to 1958.[2][3] In the early 1930s, he worked withHarry Romig in developing the Dodge-Romig Sampling Inspection Tables.[3] At Bell Labs, he also worked withWalter Shewhart,George Edwards,R. L. Jones,Paul Olmstead,E.G.D. Paterson, andMary N. Torrey.[3]
During his tenure with Bell Labs, he was involved in developing some of the basic concepts of acceptance sampling alongside his peers, includingconsumer's risk,producer's risk, double sampling,lot tolerance percent defective (LTPD) andaverage outgoing quality limit (AOQL). He also originated types of acceptance sampling schemes, CSP type continuous sampling plans, chain sampling plans and skip-lot sampling plans.[3]
DuringWorld War II, Dodge had an office in the Pentagon and served as a consultant to theSecretary of War.[3] He was a quality assurance consultant forNASA from 1961 to 1962 a consultant forSandia Corporation from 1958 to 1967.[3] He was chairman of theAmerican Standards Association (later the American National Standards Institute)War Committee Z1, which prepared theZ1.1,Z1.2, andZl.3quality control standards.[3] He developed Army Ordnance standard sampling tables and was an instructor at more than 30 Army Ordnance quality control training conferences. He chaired theAmerican Society for Quality's Standards Committee and became the first chairman of theAmerican Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM)'s committee on quality and standards (E11) in 1946.[3][4]
From 1958 to 1970, he was professor of applied and mathematical statistics at the graduate college ofRutgers University's Statistics Center.[2] He had patents on telephone instruments and electrical stethoscopes. He wrote articles on the analysis of heart and lung sounds and had dozens of articles on sampling inspection and quality control in technical publications.[3]
Dodge was a member of the planning board inMountain Lakes, New Jersey, for 17 years.[2]
Dodge married Mildred Grace Lovelass, daughter of Cyrus W. Lovelass, on July 15, 1922.[2][5] They had a son and two daughters, H. Stuart, Dorothy and Helen.[2] Dodge died on December 10, 1976, at his home on Briarcliff Road in Mountain Lakes.[2]
Dodge was an honorary fellow of theRoyal Statistical Society.[2] He was a fellow of theInstitute of Mathematical Statistics and the American Statistical Association.[3] In 1950, ASTM gave Dodge the Award of Merit. In 1954, ASTM named him the Marburg Lecturer and in 1968, he became an honorary member of ASTM.[3] He was a recipient of theShewhart Medal in 1949 and the Grant Award in 1972. He was a fellow and founding member of ASQ and was made an honorary member in 1965.[3]
In 1978, ASTM E11 committee named an award in his honor called the Harold F. Dodge Award for technical contributions.[4]
