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Minors (IMET)

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This is a DRAFT catalog for review and advising purposes. Items in this catalog draft are subject to change until the catalog for 2024-2025 academic year will be officially published on August 19th, 2024. The statements set forth in this catalog are for informational purposes only and should not be construed as the basis of a contract between a student and this institution. Should changes in a program of study become necessary, those changes will be applied liberally by the institution while the catalog is in draft mode.

Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and Technology

Minor in Quality Engineering

The Quality Engineering (QE) minor, which is open to all students, strengthens their ability to analyze and improve the quality of products and services, as well as the efficiency of the production systems. The QE minor aims to provide knowledge, critical thinking, and hands-on skills to the personnel who will be capable of improving and managing quality in all phases of production, such as in research and development, production planning, sourcing, manufacturing, distribution and customer service.

Requirements
A minimum of 21 hours must be taken from the following list of courses. Students desiring admission to the QE minor must have completed one semester of college calculus. Admission to this minor as well as the granting of the minor must be approved by the chair of the IMET Department

Required Course – 15 credit hours

  • IME 302 Introduction to Quality Engineering (3 hrs.), or Q M 262 Quantitative Analysis I (3 hrs.), or IME 311 Introduction to Engineering Statistical Methods (3 hrs.)
  • IME 341 Introduction to Manufacturing Processes (3 hrs.)
  • IME 386 Industrial and Managerial Engineering (3 hrs.)
  • IME 412 Design and Analysis of Experiments (3 hrs.)
  • IMT 362 Metrology and Instrumentation (3 hrs.)

Electives - 6 credit hours

  • Choose any two of the following three courses.
    • IME 395 Solid Modeling & Rapid Prototyping (3 hrs.)
    • IME 495 Design for Manufacturability (3 hrs.)
    • IME 524 Six Sigma Theory and Methodologies (3 hrs.)