Quality Engineering

Catalog description

This course is designed to introduce the student to techniques required to maintain and improve quality within manufacturing organizations and the service sector through the use of statistical methodologies. The course covers concepts of quality, quality management and assurance, product quality, design of quality, six sigma, lean (using quality to eliminate waste), control charting, statistical process control, and quality improvement through design by considering concept development and implementation. Traditional and modern quality systems will be discussed including the work of such quality gurus like Taguchi, Deming, Juran, and Shewhart. Prerequisites: ISE 362 or permission of instructor. Offered in the Spring semester.