Quality Engineering and Quality Management

Covers strategic quality planning, change management, problem solving, process improvement, and performance evaluation to build business and decision-making skills for quality systems.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Terry Mann4.0/5

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=11 letter grades); Fall 2024: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=11 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.92 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=12 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Work effectively on a team-based experiential project focused on process design, analysis, and resource management and integrating the concepts of continual improvement, customer focus, and teamwork

  • Apply problem solving and management/planning tools for effectively defining problems, feasible alternative solutions, and measurable goals in a real-world environment

  • Demonstrate ability to lead an industry-based team project integrating contemporary change management frameworks and considering organizational culture

  • Apply the basics of Factorial Design of Experiments (DOE) as a statistical tool for continuous process improvement

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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Graduate/professional standing

  • Graduate/professional standing
ISYE 618

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  • Graduate/professional standing

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Raw average: 4.30/5 from 20 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=11 letter grades); Fall 2024: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=11 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.92 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=12 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

TERRY MANN is recorded teaching in Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023, Fall 2024, Fall 2025. 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 003Online Only0 / 300

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=11 letter grades); Fall 2024: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=11 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.92 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=12 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Strategic quality planning, change management, problem identification and solving, process improvement, and performance evaluation
  • Business and decision-making skills related to quality systems and process improvement
  • Team-based experiential projects focusing on process design, analysis, resource management, continual improvement, customer focus, and teamwork
  • Industry-based team projects integrating contemporary change management frameworks and organizational culture
  • Factorial Design of Experiments (DOE) as a statistical tool for continuous process improvement

Skills

  • Business and decision-making skills for quality systems, process design, analysis, and resource management
  • Problem solving, strategic quality planning, change management, and performance evaluation
  • Leading industry-based team projects using change management frameworks and considering organizational culture
  • Applying Factorial Design of Experiments (DOE) for continuous process improvement

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ISYE 618 · Spring 2027

Quality Engineering and Quality Management

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