Master of Engineering
Area of Study: Quality & Reliability
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- Program Overview
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The Master of Engineering degree program offers an area of study in Quality & Reliability Engineering. This track offers specialized courses founded on basic engineering and statistics principles that are central to improving quality, reliability, and achieving meaningful business results in today's modern business organizations. The program is designed to prepare graduates for a wide spectrum of opportunities in product and service realization, including engineering design, product and process development, manufacturing, distribution, logistics, and supply chain operations. Students will learn about how modern statistical and engineering techniques are deployed in a wide range of industrial and business settings. They will also learn the basic underlying methodology so that they can develop novel solutions to problems that are unique to their own environment. Some of the world-renowned faculty participating in this program includes Dr. Douglas Montgomery, Dr. Stuart Hunter, Dr. Esma Gel, Dr. Dan Shunk, Dr. George Runger, and Dr. John Fowler.
- Program Benefits
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The ASU Department of Industrial Engineering ASU is one of a very few programs in the United States committed to offering a modern academic and research program in industrial statistics, quality control and improvement, and reliability engineering. Students in this degree program will be exposed to several nationally and internationally recognized leaders in the field, who are currently engaged in developing the methodology that will define future professional practice in this important field.
ASU faculty research has contributed to new technology in data mining, process monitoring and control, design of experiments, empirical modeling, response surface methods, robust parameter design and process robustness studies, measurement systems analysis, process capability analysis, dimensioning and tolerancing, and the application of the techniques to a broad range of manufacturing and service industries. The faculty has won many research awards, including the Shewhart Medal, the Brumbaugh Award (three times), and the Shewell Award (twice) from the American Society for Quality, and the Ellis R. Ott Award. The editorships of two prestigious journals in the field have been held by ASU faculty.
Through course work and hands-on research graduate students in Quality & Reliability Engineering will gain the in-depth technical knowledge to develop solutions to problems that have significant business impact. In addition to their strong commitment to research excellence, ASU faculty are deeply committed to education. They have won numerous outstanding teaching awards at both the Department and School of Engineering level. Faculty flexibility and accessibility allow students in the program to discover their talents and explore areas of interest to them. Students will also network with other Quality & Reliability Engineering professionals to learn how to apply new techniques to real-world problems that will advance their careers. Students also can achieve a Six Sigma Black Belt Certification as part of their degree program. - Admission Requirements
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- For admission to the program, an undergraduate grade point average of 3.0 on a 4.00 scale is expected for the last 60 undergraduate transcript. The schools attended and major of study completed are also significant factors in admission. An example of undergraduate degrees of applicants might include, but not limited to the following: B.S in Business, B.S. in Mathematics, B.S. in Engineering. Completion of a basic statistics course in required.
- GRE not required.
- In general, students should have completed coursework in differential and integral calculus (usually two courses), statistics course, computer course and have some knowledge of matrix algebra.
- Provisional admission status may be considered at the discretion of the Admission Committee. Upon completion of recommended course work, provisional status students will be elevated to regular status.
- Program Requirements
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Students must complete 30 credit hours to earn the Master of Engineering degree from ASU. For students electing the Six Sigma Black belt Certification option, they are required to complete the IEE 598, IEE 581 Six Sigma Methodology, Six Sigma Capstone Project and one member of the project committee must be a practicing professional. Students electing this option will also receive a Six Sigma Black Belt Certification and the M.Eng Degree.
A culminating event is required and will be identified by the student’s advisory committee. It could be a final examination or the final report for a practice-oriented project (Applied Project IEE 593). Additional requirements may exist for some academic units.
- Program of Study
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The program classes are classified into required core courses and elective courses.
Required Core Courses (18 Graduate Credits)- IEE 572 Design of Engineering Experiments**
- IEE 578 Regression Analysis
- IEE 570 Statistical Process Monitoring and Control (previously Advanced Quality Control)**
- IEE 573 Reliability Engineering or IEE 598 Analyzing Time Dependent Data
- IEE 520 Data Mining
- IEE 571 Quality Management*
Elective Courses (12 Graduate Credits)
- IEE 579 Time Series and Forecasting
- IEE 581 Six Sigma Methodology ****
- IEE 582 Response Surfaces and Process Optimization
- IEE 598 Financial Engineering
- IEE 552 Strategic Technological Planning
- IEE 585 Six Sigma Capstone Project***
- IEE 545 Simulating Stochastic Systems
- IEE 574 Applied Deterministic Operations Research Models
- IEE 575 Applied Stochastic Operations Research Models
- IEE 598 Supply Chain Modeling and Analysis
- IEE 593 Applied Project***
* Satisfies management requirement.
** Satisfies applied mathematics requirement.
*** Student can select only one project course option
**** Pre-/corequisite(s): IEE 572, 578, 570 or equivalent
Conditional prerequisite(s): Two of the three courses must be completed by the
time of enrollment. The third course must be taken concurrently.