Time:	Wednesday, 6:00 pm - 9:10 pm Room 3102, Engineering Classroom Building
Instructor:	G. M. Zhang, 5-6617, 5-3565, zhang@eng.umd.edu, http://www.isr.umd.edu/~zhang
Office Hours:	Wednesday, 5:00 pm - 5.50 pm and by appointment Room 2259, A. V. Williams Building
Text Book:	Instructor's Notes: "Quality Management in Systems"
References:	Statistical Quality Design and Control, R. DeVor, et al., Macmillan, 1992 Statistics for Experimenters: An Introduction to Design, Data Analysis, and Model Building, Box, et al., John Wiley & Sons, 1978

Grading:

Two Tests	..............................	30%
Homework	..............................	20%
Course Project	..............................	20%
Final Exam	..............................	30%

Policy of Homework and Performance of Projects:

• Be serious about your homework because it is an important vehicle to learn.
  
• Homework and project reports must be neatly done on 8.5" x 11" paper.
  
• Homework is due at the beginning of the lecture on its due date. No late homework will be accepted unless the instructor grants prior permission
  
• Homework and project reports will be graded as to content, effort, and timeliness. Copying will not be tolerated. Name and group number (when assigned) should be shown on the first page. Staple multiple pages together, otherwise 5 points less.
  
• Teamwork is required. But identical or almost identical homework among students will be treated as copying. Very low grades will be given.
  
• Any student who has missed three classes will receive a grade no better than B and five classes a grade no better than C.
  

Topics:

This course is intended to acquire the student with the latest trends of developing quality management systems. Fundamentals of qualify management systems will be discussed. Special attentions will be given to applications of engineering statistics, statistical process control, national standards on acceptance sampling, design of experimentation, total quality management with Deming 14 points, the Baldrige Award, and ISO 9000 systems. Lectures in the classroom, team projects, homework assignments, and examinations are the four main formats in the learning process. Class attendance is extremely important.

• Introduction to Quality Management in Systems
• Fundamentals of Engineering Statistics
• Methods of Statistical Process Control
• Acceptance Sampling
• Design of Experimentation and Taguchi Method
• Three Quality Management Systems

Important Dates

1. First day of class: January 1998, 28
2. Last Day Schedule Adjustment for Spring 1998: February 9, 1998
3. Spring Break: March 23-29, 1998
4. Last Day to Drop with a "W": April 13, 1998
5. Last Day of Classes (Final project due day), May 13, 1998.

OUTLINE OF ENSE 627

HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS OF ENSE 627

Email: zhang@eng.umd.edu