Case Study: Virginia Tech enhances statistics education with Minitab

Virginia Tech Learning with Minitab® in the Classroom and on the Factory Floor

Virginia Tech, led by statistics professor G. Geoffrey Vining, needed software that could teach statistics effectively to both undergraduate and graduate students while also preparing them for industry use. The challenge was finding a tool that was easy to learn, powerful enough for advanced methods, and practical for classroom instruction and professional workshops. Minitab Statistical Software was chosen as the primary platform.

Minitab provided Virginia Tech with an intuitive, graph-rich solution that balanced ease of use with robust functionality, making it easier for students to learn statistics without programming and for instructors to teach topics like DOE, regression, and reliability. According to Vining, Minitab also helped students transition into careers at Six Sigma companies where it is a corporate standard, and it delivered strong value in both academic and industry settings.

Virginia Tech

G. Geoffrey Vining

Past Head of the Statistics Department