American Statistical Association's Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences: Past, Present, and Future

This article is also one of the section's contributions to the celebration of the sesquicentennial of the American Statistical Association (ASA).It describes the early history of the section, discusses activities of the section in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s as a principal component of ASA, and offers a prospectus for the section in the 1990s.