Spring 2027

Inspection, Quality Control and Reliability

Covers inspection data, sampling plans, process control charts, and reliability models for quality control.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 No instructors listed

Summary

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Past student reviews · Hantang Qin

One student reported the class was extremely difficult, citing poor instruction.

What you’ll be able to do

  • Apply statistical process control analysis for measuring and controlling quality

  • Recognize, formulate, and analyze univariate continuous and discrete control charts

  • Use Minitab to perform basic statistical process control analysis

  • Communicate the results of the statistical process control analysis to management and other non-specialist users of engineering analyses

  • Recognize, formulate, and analyze advanced continuous control charts

  • Perform process capability and measurement system capability analysis

Source: UW Guide 1 UW Guide 2

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Prerequisites

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(MATH/​STAT 309, 409, 431,STAT 311, or 324), graduate/professional standing, or member of Engineering Guest Students

ISYE/ME 512 used by

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Professors

Spring 2027

No instructors recorded for this selection.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

HANTANG QIN is recorded teaching in Spring 2023, Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 400
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 400

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Student experience

the class

Past student reviews · Hantang Qin

Students described Professor Qin as unfamiliar with the course content and lacking statistical knowledge.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.28 GPA, 61.1% A/AB (n=18 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.96 GPA, 98.0% A/AB (n=51 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.87 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=15 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Hantang Qin

One student reported the class was extremely difficult, citing poor instruction.

Past student reviews · Hantang Qin

Reviewers found the teaching awful and stated the instructor did not know what he was talking about.

Topics

  • Quality control inspection and sampling
  • Advanced control charts
  • Reliability models and acceptance testing

Skills

  • Statistical process control analysis
  • Formulating and analyzing control charts
  • Using Minitab for SPC
  • Process and measurement system capability analysis
  • Reliability models and acceptance testing

Grades

Latest available · Spring 2026— not enough history to project Spring 2027.

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ISYE/ME 512 · Spring 2027

Inspection, Quality Control and Reliability

Recorded 2026-10-14
ISYE/ME 512 · Spring 2027

Inspection, Quality Control and Reliability

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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