Charles Bicking papers

Collection

Charles Bicking papers

• 1930-1988 (Production)

119 boxes (113 letter document boxes, 3 half-size letter document boxes, and 3 boxes of slides)
48.96 linear feet

Dr. Charles A. Bicking was an award-winning mechanical engineer active in the fields of Industrial Engineering, Industrial Statistics, Engineering Statistics, Operations Research, and Quality Control. A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Techology, Bicking has held numerous posts as an engineer, consultant, and lecturer in a number of countries. Bicking also published and presented dozens papers in the above fields. Bicking was an official U.S.A. delegate for the 1953 session of the International Statistical Institute in Rome. He won the ASTM Award of Merit in 1962. Some of the organizations, corporations, and associations that Bicking worked with include the American Society for Quality Control, the American Statistical Assocation, A.S.Q.C., Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry, White Sands Missile Range, Carborundum Company, Hercules Powder Company, NASA, Nashua Corporation, Tracor Jitco, the American Society for Testing and Materials, and the Control Data Corporation.

The Charles Bicking Papers contains documents spanning across the entirety of Dr. Bicking's career, as described above.

The Charles Bicking Papers are divided into six series: I. Correspondence, II. Writing and Lectures, III. Consulting Projects, IV. Organizations, Conferences, and Seminars, V. Teaching Materials, and VI. Miscellanea.

This collection is open for research.

This collection is kept in an off-campus storage facility. Please contact Special Collections at asc.library@miami.edu with the boxes you are interested in prior to your visit, and allow up to 1 week for delivery of materials.

Charles Bicking Papers Finding Aid © 2009 University of Miami. All rights reserved. Requests to reproduce or publish materials from this collection should be directed to asc.library@miami.edu.

• anglais

• Engineering -- Statistical methods
• Industrial engineering
• Industrial statistics
• Operations research
• Quality control

• White Sands Missile Range (N.M.)

• American Society for Quality Control (Sujet)
• American Society for Testing and Materials (Sujet)
• Carborundum Company (Niagara Falls, N.Y.) (Sujet)
• Control Data Corporation (Sujet)
• Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry (Sujet)
• United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Sujet)
• Bicking, Charles (Sujet)

• Articles
• Sound recordings » Audiocassettes
• Awards
• Bibliographies
• Calendars (documents)
• Certificates
• Contracts
• Correspondance » Letters (correspondence)
• Manuscrits
• Memorandums
• Notes
• Dépliants
• Périodiques
• Programs (documents)
• Reports
• Reprints
• Slides (Photographs)
• Typescripts