STAT 5690 - Quality Improvement Concepts and Methods

This is a course on quality technology for application in business and industry involving concepts and methods from Statistics, Management, and Psychology and how they must blend together to obtain results. Topics may include: quality concepts for products and services, Deming philosophy of quality improvement, leadership and management concepts, analytic vs. enumerative studies, theory of variability, the seven tools, exploratory data analysis, statistical graphics, Shewhart control charts, cusum charts, process capability, principles of experimental design, robust product and process design.

Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisites: An introductory statistics course such as STAT 2600 or STAT 3640.

Credits 4 hrs.

Notes:
Open to Upperclass and Graduate Students. Undergraduates with junior or senior standing and 12 or more credit hours of work in mathematics and statistics may enroll in 5000-level courses with prior approval of the department chairperson.