Fall 2007 Courses

IDM 355  Quality Management

Instructor, Dr. Joan A. Burtner, Certified Quality Engineer

Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering

Syllabus

Homework and Exercises

Updated November 28, 2007

Deming

Assignment
 

Due Date

HW 1

1. Choose one of the Total Quality Management Gurus. Find a journal article or magazine article written by or about that individual. Write a Journal Article Critique for the article you selected. Be prepared to summarize the contents of the Critique in class on Tuesday.

2. Find a journal article or magazine article on the topic of Total Quality Management. Write a Journal Article Critique for the article you selected. Be prepared to summarize the contents of the Critique in class on Tuesday.

 
August 28, 2007
HW 2

Chapter 2  Leadership  Problems 15 and 16

  August 30, 2007
HW 3

Choose two of Deming's Fourteen Points. Discuss how your school does and does not adhere to those principles. (word-processed, minimum ½ page)

  September 4, 2007
HW 4

Develop a one-page customer satisfaction survey for a cell phone provider.

  September 6, 2007
HW 5 Summarize and critique the article "Applying the Deming Philosophy to the Safety System" by Noe Salazar   September 11, 2007
HW 6
Search for customer satisfaction surveys on the Web.  Bring printouts of two surveys to class on Tuesday.   September 11, 2007
HW 7

Develop a list of twenty characteristics associated with cell phones and their use (eg reliable service, lightweight, camera phone, voice-activated). Use the Kano Model to classify these customer satisfaction measures for college students.

 

Use the same twenty characteristics to build a Kano Model chart for retirees.

  September 13, 2007
HW 8 Chapter 8 Benchmarking  Problems 3, 8, 9   September 20, 2007
HW 9 Finish reading Chapter 12 (Quality Function Deployment)   September 25, 2007
HW 10

Build an Excel spreadsheet for the House of Quality. Verify the calculations shown in Figure 12-13.  Bring an electronic version of your spreadsheet to class on October 2, 2007.  

                                   ****Test 1   September 27, 2007****

  October 2, 2007
HW 11 Brightman Page 66  Problems 16, 17, 18   October 4, 2007
HW 12      
HW 13      
HW 14 Review your statistics text and notes on how to conduct a hypothesis test.   October 18, 2007
HW 15 Chapter 6 Problems 23 and 25   October 23, 2007
HW 16 Use Excel to verify the hypothesis test results we obtained using Minitab in class on Tuesday. Use Excel and Minitab for the two problems described in IDM355F07 HypothesisTest Homework2   October 25, 2007
HW 17

Use Minitab for the two problems described in IDM355F07 HypothesisTest Homework3 ANOVA

We will discuss the Excel methodology in class on Tuesday.

  October 30, 2007
HW 18 Problems 13.23 and 13.24 in the Brightman text   November 6, 2007
 HW 19 Problems 13.27, 13.28 a d, 13.30 and 13.21 in the Brightman text   November 8, 2007
       
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