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MEEM Seminar 0708_036


Quality Engineering Research, Education and Practice: Gaps and Challenges


Abstract

Quality engineering is a fairly old area that is facing new challenges in research, education and practice.

There has always been a gap between quality engineering research and application. On one hand, it often takes a long time for research results to be widely spread to application. On the other hand, there are many extremely difficult practical problems that research has hardly provided any good solutions to.

There is a similar gap between quality engineering education and practice. On one hand, poor understanding of quality engineering methods and quality management principles is widespread in industry. On the other hand, quality engineering programs are not rapid enough to adapt to technological advances and ever-changing market requirements.

It is a huge challenge for quality engineering educators and researchers to close these gaps. More and closer collaboration between academics and industry is probably the best way to meet this challenge, which also implies opportunities.

In this seminar, practical experience in this area will be shared.


Event:

MEEM Seminar 0708_036

Date:

20 June 2008 (Friday)

Time:

10:30am (Tea Reception at 10:00am)

Venue:

Room Y5302
City University of Hong Kong

Speaker:

Dr ZHANG Cai Wen
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, Singapore


About the Speaker

ZHANG Cai Wen received his PhD (Quality Engineering & Management) at National University of Singapore in 2005. He is currently working for Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Singapore), a hard disk drive manufacturer, as a statistical consultant and quality engineer. His current research interests are in Quality & Reliability Engineering in Nano-manufacturing and Quality Management in Healthcare.


Enquiry: MEEM General Office (Tel: 2788 8420   Email: mego@cityu.edu.hk )