CQE

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CQE is an abbreviation for "Certified Quality Engineer", a certification given by the American Society for Quality. These engineers are professionally educated in quality engineering and quality control.

They are trained in researching and preventing unnecessary costs through lack of quality, lost production costs, lost market share due to poor quality, etc. They possess the knowledge needed to setup quality control circles, assess potential quality risks, and evaluate human factors and natural process variation.

A partial course syllabus is as follows:

Management Systems
Project Management
Quality Information Systems
Leadership Principles and Techniques
Training
Cost of Quality
Quality Philosphies & Approaches
History of Quality
Total Quality Management
Customer Relations
Quality Deployment
Supplier Qualification & Certication Systems
Quality Systems
Documentation Systems
Configuration Management
Planning, Controlling and Assuring Product and Process Quality
Design inputs and design review
Validation and Qualification Methods
Process Capability
Interpretation of technical drawings and specifications
Material Control
Acceptance Sampling
Measurement Systems
Gage repeatability and reproducibility (Gage R & R)
Measurement System Analysis
Destructive and nondestructive testing and measuring
Traceability to standards
Calibration systems
Reliability and Risk Management
Design of systems for reliability
Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)
Management and Planning Tools
Corrective Action
Preventive Action
Overcoming Barriers to Quality Improvement
Concepts of Probability and Statistics
Drawing Valid Statistical Conclusions
Control Charts
Properties and application of probability distributions
Statistical Decision Making
Tests for means, variances, and proportions
Design of Experiments
Statistical process control

1 Techniques
2 Applications
3 Professional institutes
4 External links

[edit] Techniques

Some techniques that Quality Engineers use in quality engineering/assurance include:

[edit] Applications

These techniques are applicable company/system wide and are, by definition, not only developed for manufacturing processes. Examples include:

[edit] Professional institutes

There are professional institutes, most notably the American Society for Quality, that examine the candidates before they are awarded an official certificate. This process helps to establish and maintain a minimum body of knowledge and skill level among certified engineers.

The Certified Quality Engineer exam is administered by the ASQ twice yearly at numerous locations around the country, and to some extent internationally. The exam changes from test to test in minor detail and the body of knowledge is revised and updated by peer review committees set up by the ASQ. The test itself consists of 160 multiple choice questions that must be answered in five hours (the number of questions and the test length may vary due to the exam being changed by the ASQ).