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Graduate Course Proposal Form Submission Detail - QMB6696
Tracking Number - 3038
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Current Status:
Approved by SCNS - 2013-04-22
Campus: Sarasota
Submission Type: New
Course Change Information (for course changes only):
Comments: USF-SM approved 11/20/12. to Sys 12/6/12. to SCNS 12/14/12. Cleared from concurrence hold. 1/8/13. updated pre-req 2/8/13. SCNS approved eff 4/1/13. 6607 approved as 6696
Detail Information
- Date & Time Submitted: 2012-12-03
- Department: Information Systems and Decision Sciences
- College: BA
- Budget Account Number: 140700004
- Contact Person: Sandy McDonald
- Phone: 9413594619
- Email: smcdonald@usf.edu
- Prefix: QMB
- Number: 6696
- Full Title: Six Sigma
- Credit Hours: 3
- Section Type: O -
Other
- Is the course title variable?: N
- Is a permit required for registration?: Y
- Are the credit hours variable?: N
- Is this course repeatable?:
- If repeatable, how many times?: 0
- Abbreviated Title (30 characters maximum): Six Sigma
- Course Online?: C -
Face-to-face (0% online)
- Percentage Online: 0
- Grading Option:
R - Regular
- Prerequisites: QMB 6310, ISM 6346
- Corequisites:
- Course Description: Course focuses on the concepts/principles of Six Sigma. Methods/tools/techniques utilized to design and optimize product/process/service quality for Six Sigma levels of performance in manufacturing, service, and healthcare organizations are emphasized
- Please briefly explain why it is necessary and/or desirable to add this course:
- What is the need or demand for this course? (Indicate if this course is part of a required sequence in the major.) What other programs would this course service? Six Sigma revolution is a major trendsetter and popular movement cutting across all the industries. Several professional organizations offer certification to professionals through examination. These professionals are most sought out and are high in demand in the job market for the kind of knowledge and capabilities they bring to the workplace.
This course offers a solid foundation and preparation for working professionals to try for professional certification subsequently. Students will learn practical skillset that is very high in demand across industries and enables them to become eligible for numerous employment opportunities.
This course brings the curriculum in line with current practices and the needs of the industry and forms the core of new graduate certificate program in “Lean Operations and Six Sigma” as well as an elective in the new graduate certificate program in “Business Analytics”.
- Has this course been offered as Selected Topics/Experimental Topics course? If yes, how many times? No
- What qualifications for training and/or experience are necessary to teach this course? (List minimum qualifications for the instructor.) PhD (preferred) or MS with industry experience in Business/Industrial Engineering with background in Applied Statistics, Quality/Six Sigma, and Operations Management.
- Objectives: Learn the Fundamentals Six Sigma
Importance of “systems thinking” to understand the causes and cures of quality issues, Learn and apply the seven basic quality tools, common and special causes of variation
Troubleshoot quality problems in operations, reduce lead time while improving quality, methods to implement quality in the workplace
Design and Implement Statistical Process Control, and Design of Experiments, and Taguchi Methods
Learn the methodology and tools of Process Improvement using Define-Measure-Analyze-Improve-Control (DMAIC)
Learn the methodology and tools of Product/Service/Process Design Improvement using Design for Six Sigma (DFSS)
- Learning Outcomes: Lays a solid foundation for 'what is six sigma' and 'how six sigma works'
Learn to develop Key Performance Metrics, and use traditional quality tools as well as newer contemporary tools to improve quality and metrics
Will be able to apply DMAIC and DFSS approaches for sigma level improvement.
Learn the tools Process Mapping, Root-Cause Analysis, 5S, Kaizen and Error Proofing, Total Quality Management, and Total Productive Maintenance
Master Statistical Process Control, Design of Experiments, and Taguchi Methods and Robust Design
Helps prepare for a ASQ (American Society for Quality)'s Green Belt level certificate, and Certified Six Sigma Black Belt Exam
- Major Topics: Introduction to Quality and Six Sigma, Statistical Process Control, Process Capability, Cost of Quality, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), Process Mapping, 5S, Kaizen, Error Proofing, Total Quality Management (TQM), Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), Reliability, Design of Experiments, Taguchi Methods and Robust Design, Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA), Define-Measure-Analyze-Improve-Control (DMAIC), Design For Six Sigma (DFSS), Lean Six Sigma.
- Textbooks: Mikel Harry and Richard Schroeder - “Six Sigma: The Breakthrough Management Strategy Revolutionizing the World's Top Corporations”; Crown Business
ISBN-10: 0385494386; ISBN-13: 978-0385494380
F.W. Breyfogle III – “Implementing Six Sigma”, John Willey and Sons
James R. Evans and William M. Lindsay – “An Introduction to Six Sigma and Process Improvement (1st Edition)”
ISBN-10: 0324300751; ISBN-13: 9780324300758
Ian D. Wedgwood – “Lean Sigma: A Practitioner's Guide”, Prentice Hall, 2007
ISBN-10: 0132390787; ISBN-13: 9780132390781
Craig Gygi, Neil DeCarlo, and Bruce Williams - “Si
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