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Dear Advanced Materials Colleagues,

During the Town Hall meeting on July 15th, I shared the importance of Statistics and Experimental Design to Dow’s competitive advantage. These are very important tools for R&D; they allow us to maximize the effectiveness of our projects.

To ensure we are designing appropriate training, we have prepared a survey to establish a baseline metric for these tools - statistics and experimental design. Through this survey we can target and develop training which will be the most beneficial.

The survey is being administered by a third party; your participation will be recorded, but individual responses will not be reviewed or reported. However, a list of those individuals who receive a survey invitation, but do not complete the survey will be generated. The aggregate data will be used for the development of training that will be deployed and completed over the course of the next 18 months and will be managed by individual Global R&D Directors for their respective organizations (both direct and dotted line).

Please plan to finish the survey in one sitting and allow yourself an hour or more of uninterrupted online time. The survey will time-out after the maximum two-hour cumulative time period for each participant.

Please complete the survey on or before July 31, 2009. It is my expectation that all Advanced Materials employees who receive this message will complete the survey within the time period. Once the survey period ends, detailed explanations to the survey questions will be provided.

Best Regards,

Sreeram