Career
He primarily known for his work on Quality Management, Performance Management, and within the recent years Sustainable Enterprise Excellence (SEE). Before Aarhus University prior posts include Statistical Science Department Professor & Chair at the University of Idaho (2004-2011), QUEST Professor & QUEST Honors Program Executive Director in the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland (2001-2004), Professor of Computer Information Systems & Director of the Center for Quality & Productivity Improvement (CQPI) at Colorado State University (1988-2001), and early career stints at the University of North Texas, Bradley University, and in the Center for Quality & Applied Statistics at the Rochester Institute of Technology. A Six Sigma Black Belt, Rick was a Visiting Professor in the Quality & Environmental Management Division at Luleå University (Sweden) and Invited Professor at the Versailles Business School, University of Versailles Saint-Quentin en Yvelines (France).
Invited lectures and keynotes include ones at Oxford University, the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, and on behalf of the National Science Foundation.
In 1992 he was a Special Congressional Fulbright Senior Scholar under the Securing Eastern European Democracy (SEED) Program to Comenius University in Czechoslovakia, although delayed notification prevented appointment acceptance. EDUCATION 2004 - Villanova University (United States of America) - Six Sigma Black Belt 1983 - University of Wyoming (United States of America) - Doctor of Philosophy Statistics 1979 - University of Northern Colorado (United States of America) - Master of Surgery Research & Statistical Methods 1977 - Colorado State University-Pueblo (United States of America) - Bachelor of Surgery Experimental Psychology Edgeman, Edgeman, Edgeman.".
