EM 609 - Applied Statistics for Quality&Engineering Management

Comprehensive survey of the many roles of statistics in TQM, quality assurance, simulation, experimentation, risk assessment and performance evaluation. Topics include confidence intervals, statistical process control, analysis of variance, regression, and nonparametric methods and their applications in engineering management. Excel and other software will be used. Deming, Juran, Taguchi and ASQ contributions are presented as engineering management resources.
3 credits