INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, KHARAGPUR KHARAGPUR

IM31002/61004: Quality Engineering

Course Syllabus – Spring 2022
Instructor: Sayak Roychowdhury, PhD; Assistant Professor; Department of Industrial & Systems
Engineering

Contact: Tel: 84754; email: sroychowdhury@iem.iitkgp.ac.in

Office Hours: Thursdays 5-6pm or by appointment

Teaching
Assistant:

Schedule: 12:00- 12:55 pm on Mondays, 10:00-11:55 am on Tuesdays & 8:00-8:55 on Thursdays

Outline: This course is intended to cater in depth knowledge of design of experiments primarily in relation with
quality improvement. The course will review basic quality engineering concepts and probability
distributions, followed by rigorous discussion of hypothesis testing, ANOVA, design of experiments,
randomized block design, factorial experiments and robust design. The course will also cover
response surface methodologies, and regression analysis, thereby providing a comprehensive
background of statistical methods used in quality engineering.
Learning
Outcomes: 1. Learning effective application of design of experiments for process/product quality
Improvement.
2. Learning to plan and conduct experiments and to analyse the resulting data.
3. Understanding statistical theory related to ANOVA, hypothesis testing, design of
experiments.
4. Learning to use regression analysis in connection with DOE and optimize responses.

Textbooks: Design and Analysis of Experiments, D.C. Montgomery, Eighth Edition, Wiley Student
Edition

Software: Minitab, R & Rstudio

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Grading: Assignments – 40%

Class Tests - 60%

Homework
Assignment/
Projects : Weekly assignments will be provided to test the understanding of concepts.

Tentative Course Schedule:

No. of Hours Topic

4 Hours Intro to QE. Basic Probability & Statistics Review

2 Hours Hypothesis Testing

6 Hours ANOVA

6 Hours Blocking and Randomized Block Design

6 Hours Factorial Experiments , 2 Level factorial design, Contrast

4 Hours Blocking and Confounding

6 Hours Fractional Factorial Experiments

4 Hours Design with Centre Points

6 Hours Regression Modelling

4 Hours Response Surface Method

6 Hours Taguchi Designs

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