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In Memoriam: Joseph M. Juran
2008-03-03 12:36 (CST)
Alumnus Joseph M. Juran (B.E.E. '24) died February 28, 2008, at the age of 103. Juran is often referred to as the father of modern day Quality Management and traveled the world to teach others how to improve quality. Juran named the Pareto principle which states that, for many events, 80 percent of the effects comes from 20 percent of the causes. In 1979, at the age of 75, Juran founded the Juran Institute, Inc. (JII), an organization aimed at providing research and pragmatic solutions for improving business performance. Juran's contributions also established the University of Minnesota's Juran Center for Leadership Quality, a repository for past developments in the field of leadership in quality, as well as a generator of new research, new ideas, and new scholars.