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Usually Offered: Every third semester. Tentatively next in Spring 2006.

Purpose: To acquaint students with statistical thinking and its role in Total Quality, emphasizing its use to monitor and improve processes and to identify sources of process variation. To prepare students for further study in statistical methods for product and process improvement such as design of experiments.

Current Textbook: Statistical Quality Design and Control - Contemporary Concepts and Methods, Richard E. DeVor, Tsong-how Chang, John W. Sutherland, Macmillan Publishing Company, 1992

 

Topics Covered	Chapters	Time
Introduction to Staistical Thinking	1 and 2	1 weeks
Attribute Control Charts	4 and 13	2 weeks
Variable Data Control Charts	5, 6 and 11	3 week
Process Capability	9	1 weeks
Sampling and Sibgrouping Principles	7 and 8	3 weeks
Components of Variation	Notes	3 week
Measurement Processes	9	1 week
The Role of Design of Experiments	15 and 21	1 week
Special Control Charts (as time allows)	12

The above textbook and course outline should correspond to the most recent offering of the course by the Statistics Department. Please check the current course homepage or with the instructor for the course regulations, expectations, and operating procedures.  

Contact Faculty: Georgie Baker, Jim Lynch
(Last Updated: July 11, 2008)