Course Overview

Course Overview
Thank you for choosing to be a student in this course.

Welcome to QET 202 Advanced Statistical Quality Control. This course extends the knowledge that you acquired in both QET 101 Introduction to TQ and QET 201 Statistical Process Control. We will be revisting some of the concepts that you mastered in 101 and 201, but we will add some additional simple summary tools, such as stem and leaf, box plots and percentiles, revisit the the normal distribution but link the impact of the central limit theorem that postulates that given any underlying distribution the distribution of sample averages is normally distributed. Hypothesis testing and design of experiments round out our new content areas. This course utilizes modules, (Probability Sampling and Hypothesis Testing and Statistical Experiments) developed at the National Center for Manufacturing Education with supportive content for the activities at http://www.ncmeresource.org/onsite/ . Additional, supportive materials are found on the CD and supportive textbook.

We will experiment with the use the discussion board for questions and posting. There is a lot of "stuff" in this course, but past students said it was fun.

I am looking forward to working with you this term.

Sincerely yours,

Jim Houdeshell
Professor QET

About the Instructor

Dr. Houdeshell is currently a Professor of Quality Engineering Technology at Sinclair Community College and a Project Director for a National Science Foundation Project. He also is involved at the NSF-ATE sponsored National Center for Manufacturing Education (NCME). At the center he specializes in the management and development of curriculum in the content areas of design, quality and materials, and the application of constructivist approaches to teaching those curriculum materials. Current research efforts focus on the development of courses with hybrid delivery modes.

He completed his Doctorate in Instructural Technology and Distance Education at Nova Southeastern University (2003). His dissertation topic was "Scaffolding Transfer Activities Using Concept Maps to Enhance Student Learning and Adaptive Problem Solving." Previous degrees earned include a BS in Chemical Engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (1969), a MS in Systems Engineering from Wright State University (1973), and a MS in Engineering Management from University of Dayton (1978). Additional areas of study include metallic and non-metallic materials and ISO 9000/16949 quality systems.

At Sinclair Community College he has held leadership positions of Department Chairperson, Faculty Senator and President of the Faculty. He has been actively involved in curriculum development, as a co-author on seven of the NCME instructional modules.

Prior to working for Sinclair Community College he spent ten years at Inland Division of General Motors Corporation as a Process Control Engineer, Supervisor of Chemical Receiving Inspection, Reliability Engineer, and Senior Project Engineer. Nearly half of his time at Inland was involved in the design, development, testing and production of the first commercially available driver air bag system.

Dr. Houdeshell has worked with over 60 companies in the implementation of SPC, quality systems and reliability and has published 15 papers and has made numerous paper presentations. Dr. Houdeshell is a registered Professional Engineer in Ohio, a Senior Member of the American Society for Quality and is certified as a Reliability Engineer and as a Quality Auditor.

Submitting Your Assignments
Assignments should be submitted in one of two possible modes: Posting to the discussion board, or emailing with attached MS Word or MS Excel files. In order to key track of your files please use the following file naming prococol: intials-wk-type.extension. For example: jjh5exam.xls (my initials, 5th week, exam, Excel file) types includes exam, hw, proj. Unless otherwised noted all assignment are due by midnight Sunday (EST) every week.