Quality & Reliability Certificate

Quality & Reliability Certificate

Level:

Certificate

Credits required:

15 credits

Cost per credit:

$405 *

Next start date:

January 5, 2026

Support Quality & Reliability Efforts in Organizations

As part of the Technology Systems bachelor's program, we offer a Quality and Reliability academic certificate designed to help you develop expertise in quality management and process improvement. Through the five courses, you develop skills such as internal and external auditing, lean manufacturing, quality management, risk analysis, statistical process control, traceability, and more.

Pursue a Professional Development Certification

For professionals not seeking a full degree, you can earn the Quality and Reliability Certification as a standalone, non-degree continuing education option. This flexible option is ideal for you if you're looking to advance your careers, improve your skills, and add value to your organizations through targeted education in quality and reliability. 

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College: Agriculture & Applied Sciences

Department: Technology, Design & Technical Education

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Quality & Reliability Coursework

This course expands on Juran’s quality trilogy to describe business transformation through innovative customer-driven strategy, meaningful process control using statistics, and management-sponsored, focused improvements in core products and services, along with Deming’s teachings on management responsibilities and systems.
In this course, students apply a range of root cause analysis tools to solve different problems as they relate to quality and reliability.
This course provides an understanding of process capability and its use in predicting the potential failure rate from a process. Students learn the statistical techniques used to predict the complete output of a process.
Students meet on location, and learn from industry partners, lean manufacturing principles and how they are applied in a manufacturing facility.
In this class, students learn the benefits of internal and external auditing, quality improvement techniques, risk analysis, and core quality assurance concepts, including: change management, configuration control, document control, identification, and traceability.

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* Actual program costs may vary due to differential tuition or course fees.