COURSES OFFFERED

Quality Assurance 1
Fundamentals of Quality Assurance

This course provides the student with an overview of all major aspects of the quality assurance field. The course covers these aspects by introducing modern concepts and techniques in quality assurance, how they relate to engineering and manufacturing requirements and the most current technological developments.

Quality Assurance 4A
Inspection Methods and Techniques

This course covers the study of product quality assurance as it relates to inspection techniques and methods. The primary focus of this course is on the handling, care and reading of measuring equipment.

Quality Assurance 7
Introduction to Non-Destructive Testing

This course provides a basic overview of those non-destructive disciplines most frequently used in the inspection of aerospace and commercial hardware. These nondestructive disciplines include Radiographic Inspection; Magnetic Particle Inspection; Penetrant Inspection; Ultrasonic Inspection and Electromagnetic (Eddy Current) Inspection. In addition, those specifications that relate to and govern non-destructive testing will be discussed.

Quality Assurance 8
Techniques for Statistical Process Control

This course illustrates with examples and problems, the value of various quality control techniques. Students learn how to use and recognize when to use variables and attributes control charts. Other graphing techniques, frequency distribution analysis, are covered to ensure that students learn to extract the information that the data contains. Students will also learn problem solving, sampling plan design and implementation, and how to perform a process capability study. The course constantly stresses the need to establish a quality system for making it right the first time.

Quality Assurance 9
Participative Management:
Introduction to Self-Regulating Work Teams

Upon completion of the course the student will have acquired a working knowledge of how teams activity assist in the improvement of quality/productivity levels in any work environment. The student will review work team techniques, implementation, support and maintenance. Quality circles as well as other team concepts currently in the workplace will be investigated.

Quality Assurance 10
Quality Planning

This course covers the study of the principles of quality planning and their applications. With the use of statistical aids, students will write proposals/reports/inspection procedures. Selection of characteristics, use of feedback information, use of prediction techniques, along with how to formulate quality control policies and objectives with the establishment of organizational hierarchies will be covered. A review of the concepts and the structuring of cost studies and audit programs will also be discussed.

Quality Assurance 50
Special Topics in Quality Assurance

This course is designed to explore topics in Quality Assurance more specific than provided in other courses in the regular departmental curriculum. Students are referred to the current schedule of classes for details of specific courses.

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Cooperative Career Education

Through a set of learning objectives established by the student, employer, and instructor, each student will work with and learn from experts in the Quality Assurance field. These experiences will enable students to improve job skills, analyze career opportunities and requirements, and compare these to personal potential and expectations.

Note: The maximum total units earned for CCE under both plans may not exceed 16 units.