Quality and Reliability (MCEN90023)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Not available in 2020
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About this subject
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Overview
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AIMS
This subject aims to equip graduates with the insights, knowledge and skills necessary for providing professional engineering input into quality management programmes and maintenance facilities in a range of business environments.
INDICATIVE CONTENT
Topics covered may include total quality management, productivity and cost relationships; quality systems and their components, including international standards; interaction between quality and design functions; alternate systems approaches, including leading international concepts; quality control: the control function in quality; theory of sampling; the operating characteristic curve; the use of statistical distributions; sampling scheme design and analysis; quality improvement: process variability - measures and interaction with design; process capability and improvement studies; control charting; state of statistical stability; computerisation of process monitoring; cumulative sum techniques for quality studies; experimental design for quality improvement: reliability, measures and frequency distributions; analyses for optimal maintenance; replacement theories; management of the maintenance function.
Intended learning outcomes
INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES (ILOs)
Having completed this subject the student is expected to be able to -
- Explain what constitutes a quality system (both generally and with respect to international standards)
- Develop strategies for implementing a quality system and its components
- Explain and quantify the relationships between process capability and tolerances
- Analyse and assess all common types of sampling schemes, and design a 'single' attribute or variables sampling scheme
- Design, analyse and interpret 'Shewhart-type' process control charts and CUSUMS for process control
- Apply optimisation techniques to maintenance
- Analyse the reliability of systems
- Develop economic strategies for replacing equipment.
Generic skills
- Ability to undertake problem identification, formulation, and solution
- Ability to utilise a systems approach to complex problems and to design and operational performance
- Understanding of the business environment
- Ability to function effectively as an individual and in multidisciplinary and multicultural teams, as a team leader or manager as well as an effective team member.
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
112.5 points of undergraduate engineering subjects OR admission into an Engineering coursework graduate degree
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
Students cannot enrol in and gain credit for this subject and -
- MCEN40003 Quality Engineering
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Assessment
Due to the impact of COVID-19, assessment may differ from that published in the Handbook. Students are reminded to check the subject assessment requirements published in the subject outline on the LMS
| Description | Timing | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
One examination
| End of semester | 65% |
One essay of 1000 words and associated class presentation of 20 minutes and class participation
| Week 5 | 15% |
One assignment and one laboratory report (incl. participation before the tenth week) not exceeding 2200 words each, excluding appendices, computations, diagrams, tables and computer output, Requires approximately 13-15 hours of work each (10% each).
| Throughout the teaching period | 20% |
Additional details
ILO 1 & 2 will be assessed by coursework (15%) and examination (15%)
ILO 3 – 5 will be assessed by examination (20%)
ILO 6 will be assessed by coursework (10%) and examination (8%)
ILO 7 will be assessed by coursework (10%) and examination (7%)
ILO 8 will be assessed by examination (15%)
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Dates & times
Not available in 2020
Time commitment details
200 hours
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Further information
- Texts
- Subject notes
LEARNING AND TEACHING METHODS
The subject will be delivered through a combination of lectures, seminars, tutorials and workshops that will feature student-centred activities.
INDICATIVE KEY LEARNING RESOURCES
A lecture outline and reading list will be provided at the start of each section.
A book written by the lecturer, Smith AJR, Quality and Reliability Management, 2nd edition, and overheads will be available on LMS.
There will be some additional material provided on LMS if and as required or requested by students.
CAREERS / INDUSTRY LINKS
Quality engineer
Maintenance engineer
Quality manager
Maintenance manager
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Master of Engineering Management Course Ph.D.- Engineering Course Doctor of Philosophy - Engineering Course Master of Philosophy - Engineering Specialisation (formal) Mechanical Specialisation (formal) Mechanical with Business - Available through the Community Access Program
About the Community Access Program (CAP)
This subject is available through the Community Access Program (also called Single Subject Studies) which allows you to enrol in single subjects offered by the University of Melbourne, without the commitment required to complete a whole degree.
Please note Single Subject Studies via Community Access Program is not available to student visa holders or applicants
Entry requirements including prerequisites may apply. Please refer to the CAP applications page for further information.
Additional information for this subject
Subject coordinator approval required
- Available to Study Abroad and/or Study Exchange Students
Last updated: 3 November 2022