Minor in Quality Engineering and Systems, MEEM
Background
Quality becomes more important in enhancing the competitiveness of HK/China export in the global market as the low-cost advantage is diminishing. The surge of quality issues in past few years from Asian Pacific exports to US, EU and Japan has prompted tightening inspection and restriction of imports. Numerous recent recalls of China-manufactured products ranging from food, toys to automobile components further unveiled the importance of having good quality, safety and environmental performances in manufactured goods.
Training with knowledge and skill in quality engineering and systems is thus becoming an important competitive edge for university students' personal and career development. Quality Engineering and Systems (QES) Minor is developed to support the students to serve the manufacturing/engineering services operations in the process control, quality assurance system, continuous quality improvement, and product compliance of international quality, safety and environmental standards aspects.
Aim and Intended Learning Objectives (ILOs)
QES Minor aims to provide training of concepts, techniques, and analysis tools in quality engineering and systems for shop floor and higher level manufacturing/engineering services processes and operations. On completion of the QES Minor, students should be able to:
- Describe the fundamental concepts of quality management, basic quality management principles, ISO9001:2000, quality system, and the relationship of a professional engineer to the integrated quality system.
- Analyze the relationship of statistics to a process, identify process capability and use statistical process control to monitor a process.
- Generate acceptance sampling plans and identify and use technical quality tools.
- Incorporate quality technology in design, customer-supplier relationships, materials control, product standards compliance, testing, auditing, and document control within an integrated quality system.
- Apply problem-solving tools and basic statistical concepts, process control and process capability plans, acceptance sampling, and attribute controls.
Requirements for the award
- At least 15 credit units must be taken from the courses shown in the following tables, I and II, including the three compulsory courses of 9 credit units and two elective courses of 6 credit units.
- An average GPA of 1.7 or above of the courses in the Minor programme is required for the award.
- A maximum of six credit units can be used to fulfill both the major and minor programme requirements.
- A student who intends to take the minor should seek approval from his/her parent department and the MEEM department, the department offering the QES Minor.
Table I: Required courses of QES Minor (9 credit units in total)
| Course Code | Course Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| MEEM3053 | Quality Improvement Methodologies | 3 |
| MEEM3062 | Quality Engineering I | 3 |
| MEEM4025 | Quality Systems and Management | 3 |
Table II: Elective courses of QES Minor (any two courses of 6 credit units in total)
| Course Code | Course Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| MEEM3061 | Instrumentation and Testing Technologies | 3 |
| MEEM4023 | Occupational Health & Safety Management | 3 |
| MEEM4024 | Project Management | 3 |
| MEEM4034 | Product Development: Managerial Approach | 3 |
| MEEM4046 | Green Industrial Systems | 3 |
| MEEM4058 | Product Health, Safety, Environmental (HSE) Standards and Compliance | 3 |
| MEEM4059 | Advanced Monitoring and Inspection Techniques | 3 |
Note:
This minor cannot be taken by students of:
BEng (Hons) in Design & Technology
BEng (Hons) in Manufacturing Systems Engineering
BEng (Hons) in Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management
To be eligible, applicants must have completed at least one semester of study in CityU, gained 15 CUs and achieved a CGPA of 3.0 or above.
Application
Students are required to submit their declaration of minor request through AIMS under “Course Registration”. Information on the key dates, process and steps for the Declaration of Minors are available in the website of the Academic Regulations and Records Office.
Last modified on 2 December, 2010