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Twenty-first century product and service quality is essential to modern competiveness. The Graduate Certificate in Quality Engineering focuses on theory and practices on statistical methods, quality control systems, quality audit, quality control improvement, design and analysis of experiments, quality product design, and quality control in manufacturing, product development, defense applications and service systems.
The 15-credit-hour Graduate Certificate in Lean Six Sigma consists of five three-credit engineering/manufacturing courses that concentrate on quality.
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This course is developed to provide students with fundamentals of lean manufacturing, lean production preparation, System assessment, process value-stream mapping, sources of waste, lean production processes, workplace organization – 5S, stability, just-in-time, one piece flow, pull systems, cellular manufacturing systems, quick change and set-up reduction methods, total productive maintenance, poka-yoke, mistake proofing, continuous improvement, visual management, employee involvement, cross functional teams, involving people in the change process, importance of culture and sustaining improvement and change.
EIE5513
3
The course will cover modern design tools and methods on the Six Sigma paradigm. Topics include tools and methods including process flow diagrams, cause and effect diagrams, gage R&R, organizational leadership, product development, system integration, critical parameter management, quality function deployment, concept generation, and strategy for organizing six sigma techniques in industry among many others. Provide useful tools to conceive new product requirements, design baseline functional performance, optimize design performance, and verify system capability.
EIE6673
3
Quality policies and objectives, management of quality, new product quality, production of quality. Statistical process quality control. Computers and SPQC. Methods for process improvements, preventive maintenance. Quality measure and controls in several manufacturing industries.
EMS6403
3
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This course explains the principles of reliability and maintainability engineering. It explains the reliability viewpoints: reliability metrics, customer perception, and things engineers do. It focuses on the reliability cycle and functional engineering activities in the product life cycle. The students will apply reliability and maintainability modeling techniques in product design. They will apply reliability tools and methods for analysis and product reliability problems in the product design process, product reliability testing, and maintaining and/or improving reliability and quality in production. Topics include: basic reliability models, constant failure rate model, time-dependent models, reliability of systems, state-dependent systems, design for reliability, maintainability, design for maintainability, availability, the analysis of failure data, reliability estimation and applications. Competencies and collaborative e-learning will be demonstrated by students conducting reliability and/or maintainability projects. A project report and an oral presentation are required from each team.
EIE5613
3
This course is developed to introduce students to the various product development process tools, it will focus on understanding customer needs, establishing product function, students will be exposed to examples of product teardown and benchmarking, students will participate in practical exercises outlining engineering specifications, product portfolio, architecture, generating concepts, concept selection and concept embodiment, results will be shared with classmates and presented in class. Students are required to form teams and select case studies about modeling of product metrics, DFM/DFA/DSA/DFS/DFE, special focus will be on: design for recyclability, design for robustness and design for sustainability.
EIE5623
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Fundamentals of Quality Engineering, Fundamentals of Statistical Studies, Basic Probability and Statistics, Stabilizing and Improving a Process with Control Charts, Attribute, Variable & Out of Control Charts, Defining and Documenting a Process, Diagnosing a Process, Process Capability and Improvement Studies, Six Sigma applications, Process Mapping, Process Variability, Manufacturing Quality Assurance Systems, Quality Standards, ISO 9000:2000, ISO 14000, TS16949 Standards.
EEM6763
3
This course explains the principles of engineering systems modeling and simulation. It describes the different types of computer modeling and simulation: continuous, kinematics, and discrete-event simulations. It explains how these simulation techniques are utilized as design, analysis, problem-solving, and decision-support tools for complex engineering systems. Topics include: principles of systems modeling and simulation, types of simulation models and techniques, simulation software, queuing models, statistical models in simulation, selecting input probability distribution, building valid credible models, statistical analysis of output, and design and conduct of simulation experiments. Competencies and collaborative e-learning will be demonstrated by students conducting engineering systems simulation projects. A project report and an oral presentation are required.
EMS5603
3
The planning of experiments. Factorial experiments. Fractional factorial experiments. Incomplete block designs. Modeling and optimization in manufacturing.
EMS7103
3
The course provides students with advance knowledge and theory of current innovative methods of product design and development. Topics include axiomatic design, one-FR design, multi-FR design, design of systems, Axiomatic design of manufacturing systems, Axiomatic design of materials-processing techniques, product design, product complexity, design for safety, product liability and case studies.
EMS6823
3
This course covers a new or specialized topic in industrial engineering for which there is a strong faculty and student interest, but is not covered in other courses.
EIE5983
3
Applicants to the Graduate Certificate in Lean Six Sigma must:
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