Graduate Quality Certificate Program
The Quality certificate program was developed to meet the professional needs of individuals who have a baccalaureate degree but do not want to pursue a master’s degree. The Quality certificate contains 18 credit hours of coursework selected from the MSQM degree program of studies. This body of knowledge and applied technologies for the Quality certificate include, but are not limited to: the ability to apply statistical methods to diagnose and correct improper quality control practices which assure product and service conformity to prescribed standards, an understanding of human factors and motivations, facility with quality cost concepts and techniques, the knowledge and ability to develop and administer management information systems, and to audit quality systems for deficiency identification and correction.
Program of Studies (18 credit hours):
Required Core Courses (15 credit hours)
| QUAL 546 - Total Quality Management | 3 |
| QUAL 548 - Tools for Continuous Improvement* | 3 |
| QUAL 551 - Design of Experiments | 3 |
| QUAL 552 - Quality Planning | 3 |
| QUAL 559 - Cost of Quality | 3 |
*Appropriate for those students who have never taken basic statistics and/or statistical process control (SPC).
Required Quality Concentration (3 credit hours)*
| QUAL 550 - Advanced Statistical Process Control | 3 |
| QUAL 553 - Geometric and Surface Texture Tolerancing | 3 |
| QUAL 554 - Reliability, Maintainability, and Product Safety | 3 |
| QUAL 555 - Quality Auditing | 3 |
| QUAL 556 - Human Factors in Continuous Improvement | 3 |
| QUAL 557 - Measuring Customer Satisfaction | 3 |
| QUAL 568 - Service Quality | 3 |
| QUAL 651 - Advanced Design of Experiments | 3 |
| QUAL 652 - Multivariate Data Analysis | 3 |
| QUAL 591 - Technical Six Sigma | 3 |
*Course selection subject to approval by your program advisor.