Dr. Richard T. O’Connell is an associate professor of decision sciences at the Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He has over 30 years of experience teaching basic statistics, regression analysis, time series forecasting, statistical quality control, and process improvement, and design of experiments to both graduate and undergraduate business students. He has also taught workshops dealing with statistical process control and process improvement for a variety of companies in the Midwest. In 2000, Dr. O’Connell got an Effective Educator award from the Richard T. Farmer School of Business Administration. Together with Professor Bruce Bowerman, he has written over 14 textbooks. These include Essentials of Business Statistics, Forecasting and Time Series: An Applied Approach; and Linear Statistical Models: An Applied Approach. Richard has published a number of articles in the area of innovative statistical education. He is one of the first college instructors in the USA to integrate statistical process control and process improvement methodology into his business statistics course.