This course examines the wide variety of philosophies, concepts and techniques for managing, controlling and improving product quality, as well as consideration of the quality of a product or system in the design stage. Elements of quality and control and design experiments (DOE) will be introduced. Four main concepts of quality engineering: Acceptance, Sampling, Real Time Quality Control, and the Taguchi method for product quality improvement will be introduced. Principles of probability and statistics in quality control will also be covered. |