Course Work
If the coursework only option is selected, 36 hours of course work to be distributed among required core courses and advisor approved quality specialization courses are required.| Core Courses | 15 Credit Hours |
| QUAL 546 - Total Quality Management | 3 |
| QUAL 548 - Tools for Continuous Improvement | 3 |
| Appropriate for those students who have never taken basic statistics and/or statistical process control (SPC) | |
| QUAL 551 - Design of Experiments | 3 |
| QUAL 552 - Quality Planning | 3 |
| QUAL 559 - Cost of Quality | 3 |
| Quality Concentration | 21 Credit hours minimum |
| 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 - Lean Service Quality | 3 |
| QUAL 651 - Advanced Design of Experiments | 3 |
| QUAL 652 - Multivariate Data Analysis | 3 |
| QUAL 655- Technical Six Sigma | 3 |
| Program Total | 36 hours |
*Advisor Approved Electives (Max 6 credit hours). Theses are non-QUAL courses (eg., statistics, mnagement, economics, and marketing). If approved/taken, they fulfill part of the required 12-14 credit hours for the Qulaity Concentration.