Quality Engineering & Project Management

This course is designed to provide to students with the necessary knowledge to ensure that products and services have the quality they have been designed for. This approach to managing quality throughout the organization has evolved into what is generally known as Quality Management Systems (QMS). The focus of this module is to provide students with an understanding of the fundamental principles of QMS and how to implement it using a range of tools and techniques.
This module will start off with the overview of QMS with an emphasis on ISO 9000 series which is a key building block in an organisation’s approach to total quality management (TQM) and strategic process improvement (SPI). This will lead to the next topic which is the selection of tools and techniques, and the typical problems found in their use and applications. The next part of this module will cover key concepts of specific quality management techniques such as quality function deployment (QFD), design of experiments (DoE), failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA), statistical process control (SPC), benchmarking and Six Sigma. In the last part of the module there will be an in-depth study of industry-oriented project management topics, through the use of dedicated software. All these will be vital in enhancing the learners’ employability skills, especially those who wish to partake in the Quality Management sectors.