UMaine Professor Earns Distinction for Quality Engineering Practices

Contact: Tom Weber (207) 581-3777

ORONO — Darrell Donahue, a University of Maine professor of chemical and biological engineering, was recently named a Certified Quality Engineer by the American Society for Quality (ASQ) for having demonstrated a significant level of commitment to quality engineering principles and practices.

Donahue, who is the coordinator of UMaine’s biological engineering program and a cooperating research professor in the Lobster Institute, was cited by the ASQ certification board for his understanding of the importance of product and service quality, evaluation and control.

He joins more than 100,000 other engineers who have qualified for the ASQ CQE designation since the certification exam was first administered in 1968.