The Quality Engineering Certificate Program consists of four courses listed below, which are delivered as part of our regular master’s degree programs in Engineering Management. Students will be responsible for prerequisite knowledge as determined by course instructors. With the approval of the department, appropriate courses may be substituted for a certificate course if that course is not available.

Engineering Management 375:  Total Quality Management
Examination of various quality assurance concepts and their integration into a comprehensive quality management system:  statistical techniques, FMEA’s, design reviews, reliability, vendor qualification, quality audits, customer relations, information systems, organizational relationships, motivation. 

Engineering Management 385:  Statistical Process Control
The theoretical basis of statistical process control procedures is studied. Quantitative aspects of SPC implementation are introduced in context along with a review of Deming’s principles of quality improvement and a brief introduction to sampling inspection.
Prerequisite:  Stat 213 or 215.

Engineering Management 401 (477):  Tolerance Design
This course is an examination of the theory and practice of allowance allocation for high quality and low cost manufacture of mass-produced consumer products, including technology intensive products, such as automobiles, trucks, military and commercial airplanes, computers and consumer electronics. 
Prerequisite:  EMGT 375 or equivalent.

Engineering Management 475:  Quality Engineering
This course is an examination of the theory and practice of quality engineering with particular emphasis on the work of Genichi Taguchi. The application of the quality loss function, signal to noise ratio and orthogonal arrays is considered indepth for generic technology development; system, product and tolerance design; and manufacturing process design. The emphasis of the course is off-line quality control.
Prerequisites:   EMGT 375 and Math 229 or equivalent.

Admission:

The Quality Engineering Certificate program is open to all persons holding a B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. degree and who have a minimum of 12-months of professional employment experience or are currently accepted into a graduate degree program at Missouri S&T.

Once admitted to the program, a student will be given three years to complete the program so long as he/she maintains a B average in the courses taken.