SSE 2000 - Engineering Safety and Quality Assurance

Credits: 3

Description: Students in this course are introduced to the fundamentals of engineering safety and quality assurance. In this course, students study the regulatory and professional aspects of occupational safety and focus on the fundamental engineering laws and ethics. Engineering practices are reinforced by requiring students to apply basic engineering principles to safety-related problems. Students are also introduced to the scope and function of quality assurance, including basic definitions, statistics, quality policy and objectives, manuals and procedures, concept of variation, inspection and sampling techniques, metrology process control, methods and the elements of reliability. Current (TQM) and ISO 9000 standards are reviewed.