Total Quality Management

Course Number: 
EM 460
This course provides the student with the underlying   management concepts and principles of Total Quality Management and how they apply   to Engineering Management.  The ideas and concepts of Frederick Winslow   Taylor, Edward Deming, Joe Juran, Phil Crosby, Armand Fiegenbaum and   Karou Ishikawa will be presented and discussed in relation to how management   thought ahs developed
 form Scientific Management to Quality Management.   Discussion of the Baldridge and Deming awards will include how leadership, information   and analysis, strategic quality planning, human resource utilization,   quality assurance and customer satisfactions relate to QM in Engineering   Management.  The use of Concurrent Engineering in Research, Design and Engineering   will be explored. The student will learn various TQM tools explored such as   Quality Function Deployment, Design for Cost, and Cost of Quality.  The   students will learn the
 methodology and techniques of Continuous Process   Improvement and use this knowledge to analyze and correct defects as part of a team   project.