- Statistics for engineers
- Experimental design
- Quality concepts and quality principles
- Quality costs
- Quality and customer experience
- Leadership and human resource development for quality
- Quality strategies
- Quality standards and tools
- Reliability technology
- Statistical process control and capability
MG2202 Quality Control, extended course 9.0 credits
This course will be discontinued.
Last planned examination: Spring 2026
Decision to discontinue this course:
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The course provides knowledge in both classical and modern quality tools, techniques and management philosophies to enable engineers/managers to transform any organization into effective organization.
Information per course offering
Information for Spring 2024 Start 16 Jan 2024 programme students
- Course location
KTH Campus
- Duration
- 16 Jan 2024 - 3 Jun 2024
- Periods
- P3 (3.0 hp), P4 (6.0 hp)
- Pace of study
33%
- Application code
61477
- Form of study
Normal Daytime
- Language of instruction
English
- Course memo
- Course memo is not published
- Number of places
Min: 5
- Target group
Conditionally elective for TPRMM1
Elective for all Master programmes as long as the course can be included in the programmes
Students who have taken statistics should choose MG2033- Planned modular schedule
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- Schedule
Contact
Sayyed Shoaib Ul Hasan (ssuh@kth.se)
Course syllabus as PDF
Please note: all information from the Course syllabus is available on this page in an accessible format.
Course syllabus MG2202 (Spring 2020–Spring 2024)Headings with content from the Course syllabus MG2202 (Spring 2020–Spring 2024) are denoted with an asterisk ( )
Content and learning outcomes
Course contents
Intended learning outcomes
After passing the course, the student should be able to:
- explain and reflect on the basic principles of statistics and solve simple statistics problems
- explain and reflect on the basic principles of quality technique and quality control systems
- based on the basic principles solve simple quality related technical problems.
- by means of quality control tools formulate and solve questions related to quality control systems
- solve advanced quality related technical problems
- evaluate complex questions related to quality control systems and present a reasonable analysis
Literature and preparations
Specific prerequisites
MG1016/MG1026 Manufacturing Technology, MG1024 Production
or the equivalent, and English B
Equipment
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Literature
Recommended course literature:
1. Managing Quality (2007), Barrie G. Dale, Ton van Der Wiele and Jos van Iwaarden, Fifth edition, ISBN-9781405142793. Can be downloaded as e-book from KTHB.
2. ISO 9001:2008 for Small Businesses, Ray Tricker, 4th Edition. Can be downloaded as e-book from KTHB.
3. Quality from Customer Needs to Customer Satisfaction (2004), Bo Bergman and Bengt Klefsjö, Studentlitteratur, ISBN10:9144041667, ISBN13:9789144041667
4. Miller and Freund's Probability and Statistics for Engineers (Paperback), 2008 Johnson, Richard A., (ISBN 0321694988)
Examination and completion
If the course is discontinued, students may request to be examined during the following two academic years.
Grading scale
A, B, C, D, E, FX, F
Examination
- INL2 - Assignments, 3.0 credits, grading scale: P, F
- INL3 - Assignments, 2.0 credits, grading scale: P, F
- TEN2 - Written exam, 4.0 credits, grading scale: A, B, C, D, E, FX, F
Based on recommendation from KTH’s coordinator for disabilities, the examiner will decide how to adapt an examination for students with documented disability.
The examiner may apply another examination format when re-examining individual students.
Opportunity to complete the requirements via supplementary examination
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Opportunity to raise an approved grade via renewed examination
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Examiner
Ethical approach
- All members of a group are responsible for the group's work.
- In any assessment, every student shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used.
- In an oral assessment, every student shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.
Further information
Course room in Canvas
Registered students find further information about the implementation of the course in the course room in Canvas. A link to the course room can be found under the tab Studies in the Personal menu at the start of the course.
Offered by
Main field of study
Mechanical Engineering
Education cycle
Second cycle
Add-on studies
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Contact
Sayyed Shoaib Ul Hasan (ssuh@kth.se)
Supplementary information
Limited number of participants. Open for international exchange students subject to vacancies.
Students who have taken statistics should choose MG2033