Registration is now open for the Spring 2012 Quality Refresher courses. Sign up NOW!
The ASQ Princeton Section is pleased to announce its Spring 2012 Education Course Schedule.
Certified Quality Engineer Refresher (CQE) – Wednesdays, starting March 7, 2012, 6-9pm, 12 weeks, $675 (includes text) at ImClone Systems, Rt. 202 Branchburg, NJ.
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Certified Six Sigma Green Belt Refresher (CSSGB) - Tuesdays starting March 20, 2012, 6:30- 9:30pm, 10 weeks – Regular Price $495 (includes text), Student Price $296 (includes text and ASQ student membership), at (NEW) Rutgers CoRE Building, Piscataway, NJ . This in conjunction with Rutgers Institute of Industrial Engineers.
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Certified Pharmaceutical GMP Professional Refresher(CPGP) - Tuesdays starting March 6, 2012, 6-9pm, 12 weeks – Price $600, at ImClone Systems, Rt. 202 Branchburg, NJ.
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Certified Quality Auditor (CQA) - Wednesdays, starting April 11, 2012, 12 weeks, 6-9pm, Price $430 (includes Text), at ImClone Systems, Rt. 202 Branchburg, NJ.
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If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact our Registrar, Geetika Nangia at geetika.nangia@asqprinceton.org
General Course Information: SEE COURSE REGISTRATION PAGE FOR THE EXACT DETAILS FOR EACH COURSE.
- Class starts at 6:00 p.m. SHARP and will usually end by 9 p.m. and includes one break (vending machines are available on site) unless indicated otherwise.
- Course fee includes text book which will be provided to you on the 1st day of class, unless indicated otherwise.
- Payment for course must be made before the course start date.
- Please contact the Education Committee with any questions you may have.
Call ASQ National at 1-800-248-1946 or go to ASQ Headquarters Website to apply for the exam. Exam registration and fees are separate from Princeton Section Course registration. You are very welcome to take this course even if you don’t plan to take the exam. If you are already certified, this course will earn you 2.1 Recertification Units that may be applicable to your other ASQ recertifications.
CQA
The Certified Quality Auditor is a professional who understands the standards and principles of auditing and the auditing techniques of examining, questioning, evaluating and reporting to determine a quality system’s adequacy and deficiencies. The Certified Quality Auditor analyzes all elements of a quality system and judges its degree of adherence to the criteria of industrial management and quality evaluation and control systems.
Course Syllabus:
- Certification Overview; Audit Basics & Management and Auditor Training
- Audit Preparation; Audit Performance
- Audit Reporting; Audit Follow up and Closure; Business Applications
- Sampling
- Basic Statistics and SPC Review
- Quality Improvement Tools; Cost of Quality; ISO 9000 and Other Standards
- Exam Case Studies; Course Review
CQE
The Certified Quality Engineer is a professional who understands the principles of product and service quality evaluation and control. This body of knowledge and applied technologies include, but are not limited to, development and operation of quality control systems, application and analysis of testing and inspection procedures, the ability to use metrology and statistical methods to diagnose and correct improper quality control practices, an understanding of human factors and motivation, facility with quality cost concepts and techniques, and the knowledge and ability to develop and administer management information systems and to audit quality systems for deficiency identification and correction.
Course Syllabus
- Introduction and Quality Management & Leadership
- Quality Management & Leadership and Product & Process Design
- Quality Systems
- Product and Process Control
- Testing & Measurement
- Control & Management Tools and Improvement Techniques
- Basic Statistics
- Intermediate Statistics
- Statistical Applications
- Advanced Statistics
- More Statistics
- Review
The Certified Quality Improvement Associate has a basic knowledge of quality tools and their uses and is involved in quality improvement projects, but doesn’t necessarily come from a traditional quality area.
The Certified Quality Improvement Associate has a basic knowledge of quality including tools and their uses, and basic quality concepts. Certified Quality Improvement Associates may be involved in quality improvement projects without coming from traditional quality areas.
CQIA SYLLABUS
- Introduction, Quality Concepts, Quality Benefits
- Team Roles, Team Dynamics
- Continuous Improvement
- Basic Quality Tools
- Quality Management Tools
- Customer-Supplier Relationships
- Review
The Certified Pharmaceutical GMP Professional understands the GMP principles as regulated and guided by national and international agencies for the pharmaceutical industry. This covers finished human and veterinary drugs and biologics, ectoparasitacides, and dietary supplements (alternatively called nutraceuticals where regulated as drug products, as well as their component raw materials (includes active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and excipients), and packaging, and labeling operations
Course Description: The Certified Pharmaceutical GMP Professional (CPGP) certification is a new ASQ certification intended for the experiencedpharmaceutical GMP professional and includes a global GMP body of knowledge (BOK). The BOK cites 94 source documents as references (see http://www.asq.org/certification/pharmaceutical-gmp/references.html). There is no one book or primer that covers this material and there are no published study questions that can be printed for use in class. So this course is a Facilitated Study Group and is different than most other “refresher” courses in the following ways:
- The objective of this study group is to familiarize you with and to enable you to rapidly navigate through the key source documents to find or confirm your answers during the actual examination. The class facilitators will guide you through the key documents.
- You must print off the internet and read the assigned source documents before each class. In the case of copyrighted documents, you will be provided with non-copyrighted summaries.
- You are expected to actively participate in this class. If you are a subject matter expert in a topic, you may be asked to assist in leading the discussion of that topic. Other outside subject matter experts may also be invited.
- A Class Syllabus will be provided at the first class and revised as needed based upon the background and experience of the study group members and the availability of subject matter experts.
- If you are not an experienced pharmaceutical GMP professional, this course may expand your knowledge of Pharmaceutical GMPs, You are very welcome to take this course even if you don’t plan to take the exam. If you are already certified, this course will earn you 3.6Recertification Units that may be applicable to your other ASQ recertifications.
The Certified Software Quality Engineer understands software quality development and implementation, software inspection, testing, verification and validation; and implements software development and maintenance processes and methods
COurse Syllabus
- Overview, general knowledge
- Software Quality Management, Software Audits, Software Engineering Process
- Program and Project Management, Software Metrics
- SOftware Verification and Validation
- Software Configuration Management and Review
The Six Sigma Green Belt operates in support of or under the supervision of a Six Sigma Black Belt, analyzes and solves quality problems and is involved in quality improvement projects. A Green Belt is someone with at least three years of work experience who wants to demonstrate his or her knowledge of Six Sigma tools and processes.
Course Description: The CSSGB course is offered in either 10 or 12-week sessions and includes a special non-manufacturing track. The course format of lecture, interactive case studies, self-study, classroom review of 100′s of sample exam questions and the issuance of custom knowledge management tools that can be use at the exam, is designed to make preparing for the ASQ certification exam fun, relevant and effective.
Course Syllabus
| 1 | Course Overview: The Green Belt Mind Set – Teams & Customers |
| 2 | Project Management, Change Management |
| 3 | Basic Statistics – Part 1 |
| 4 | Basic Statistics – Part 2 |
| 5 | Overview Six Sigma, Lean & DFSS |
| 6 | Define Phase |
| 7 | Measure Phase – Part 1 |
| 8 | Measure Phase – Part 2 |
| 9 | Analyze Phase – Part 1 |
| 10 | Analyze Phase – Part 2 |
| 11 | Improve Phase |
| 12 | Control Phase |
| 13 | Summary , Course review |
Course Instructor: Richard Herczeg: ASQ Certified Six Sigma Black Belt, Johnson & Johnson Certified Green Belt and Villanova Certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt. Richard has 12 years of Six Sigma experience in deploying and applying Six Sigma in service and transactional environments. Experience also includes the training and coaching of approx. 75 Green Belts and includes an additional 4 years of experience as Project Manager of Corporate level training programs.
Education and/or Experience
You must have five years of on-the-job experience in one or more of the areas of the Certified Calibration Technician Body of Knowledge.
If you have completed a degree from a college, university, or technical school with accreditation accepted by ASQ, part of the five-year experience requirement will be waived, as follows (only one of these waivers may be claimed):
- Diploma from a technical, military, or trade school—two years waived
- Associate degree—two year waived
- Bachelor’s degree—two years waived
- Master’s or doctorate—two years waived
Degrees/diplomas from educational institutions outside the United States must be equivalent to degrees from U.S. educational institutions.
Minimum Expectations of a Certified Calibration Technician
- Will be able to distinguish between base and derived SI units and how to apply, convert, and use them, and will be able to use IM&TE to measure various factors. Will understand the principles and hierarchy of standards and the importance of traceability. Will be able to select appropriate standards to use based on measurement requirements, equipment availability, and specifications.
- Will be able to use measurement methods, distinguish between measurement characteristics, and correct for various error sources. Will be able to apply IM&TE specifications and their characteristics, and will understand measurement assurance program (MAP) concepts.
- Will know the components of calibration procedures and be able to use common calibration methods, both manual and automated, while complying with regulations and industry practices. Will recognize the impact environment can have on calibration, and will understand calibration and validation processes for IM&TE. Will know how to manage records and maintain document control systems that support calibration and measurement systems.
- Will understand basic measurement uncertainty terms and will be able to understand the steps in developing an uncertainty budget to calculate uncertainty. Will be able to apply technical mathematics and basic statistical techniques in support of these systems.
- Will be able to distinguish between quality system components and will recognize the methods and tools used to develop, improve, and review a quality management system, as recommended by various quality standards and guidances. Will be able to apply quality control tools, identify nonconformances and assess their potential impact, and understand quality auditing processes and document requirements. Will understand safety requirements, including how to identify potential hazards and when to use personal protective equipment.
Education and/or Experience
You must have 10 years of on-the-job experience in one or more of the areas of the Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence Body of Knowledge. A minimum of five years of this experience must be in a decision-making position, defined as the authority to define, execute or control projects/processes and to be responsible for the outcome. This may or may not include management or supervisory positions.
If you’ve been certified by ASQ as a Quality Auditor, Reliability Engineer, Software Quality Engineer, or Quality Engineer, experience used to qualify for certification in these fields applies to certification as a Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence, as long as the 10-year minimum requirement is met.
If you have completed a degree from a college, university, or technical school with accreditation accepted by ASQ, part of the 10-year experience requirement will be waived(only one of these waivers may be claimed):
- Diploma from a technical or trade school—one year will be waived
- Associate degree—two years waived
- Bachelor’s degree—four years waived
- Master’s or doctorate—five years waived
Degrees or diplomas from educational institutions outside the United States must be equivalent to degrees from U.S. educational institutions.
Minimum Expectations of a Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence
- Must be a professional who leads and champions process improvement initiatives in organizations that can have regional or global focus in a variety of product or service settings.
- Must lead team efforts to establish and monitor customer/supplier relations, supports strategic planning and deployment initiatives.
- Must help develop measurement systems to determine organizational improvement.
- Must motivate and evaluate staff, manage projects and human resources.
- Must analyze financial situations, determine and evaluate risk, and employ knowledge management tools and techniques in resolving organizational challenges.
Education and/or ExperienceYou must have eight years of on-the-job experience in one or more of the areas of the Certified Reliability Engineer Body of Knowledge. A minimum of three years of this experience must be in a decision-making position. “Decision-making” is defined as the authority to define, execute, or control projects/processes and to be responsible for the outcome. This may or may not include management or supervisory positions.If you are now or were previously certified by ASQ as a Quality Engineer, Quality Auditor, Software Quality Engineer, or Quality Manager, experience used to qualify for certification in these fields often applies to certification as a Reliability Engineer.If you have completed a degree* from a college, university, or technical school with accreditation accepted by ASQ, part of the eight-year experience requirement will be waived, as follows (only one of these waivers may be claimed):
- Diploma from a technical or trade school—one year will be waived
- Associate degree—two years waived
- Bachelor’s degree—four years waived
- Master’s or doctorate—five years waived
*Degrees or diplomas from educational institutions outside the United States must be equivalent to degrees from U.S. educational institutions.
Minimum Expectations for a Certified Reliability Engineer
- Will understand strategic management aspects of reliability engineering, its relationship to safety and quality, its impact on warranty programs and customer satisfaction, the consequences of failure, and the potential for liability. Will understand requirements planning for reliability programs and how various engineering and operational systems must be integrated to achieve overall program goals and alignment with organizational goals. Will use risk analysis tools and techniques to evaluate product and system safety issues. Will abide by the ASQ Code of Ethics.
- Will use probability and statistical tools to analyze product lifecycle, conduct hypothesis testing, understand appropriate statistical models, tolerance and confidence intervals, sample size determination, and regression analysis.
- Will develop product and process reliability requirements using reliability and design techniques such as FMEA, fault tolerance, optimization, and DOE. Will develop systems for material selection, derating methods, and manufacturing control.
- Will develop models to analyze and predict reliability performance using block diagrams, physics of failure, apportionment, dynamic reliability, and simulations.
- Will develop reliability test plans that represent the expected use environment and operational conditions. Will select, analyze, and interpret the results of various test methods to be used during product development and end product testing.
- Will apply the principles of maintainability and availability over the lifecycle of the product, process, or system and will identify and support appropriate testability methods and maintenance activities.
- Will identify, collect, analyze, and manage various types of data to minimize failures and improve performance, and will use failure analysis, FRACAS, and other types of root cause analysis in support of reliability.
If you have completed a degree* from a college, university, or technical school with accreditation accepted by ASQ, part of the four-year experience requirement will be waived as follows (only one of these waivers may be claimed):
- Certification through the Quality Technology program of a community college or vocational school—one year will be waived.
- Associate degree—two years waived.
- Bachelor’s, master’s, or doctorate—three years waived.
*Degrees or diplomas from educational institutions outside the United States must be equivalent to degrees from U.S. educational institutions.
Minimum Expectations for a Certified Quality Technician
- Must be able to define quality concepts and quality processes, including six sigma basics, cost of quality, etc.; must be able to apply quality tools; must be able to interpret information and data; must be able to apply team concepts both as a member and leader.
- Must be able to define statistical techniques, including basic elements of design of experiments (DOE) and reliability; must be able to determine what data to collect for a specific technique, how to apply it to various statistical methods, and how to analyze results.
- Must know which measurement and test equipment (M&TE) tools are appropriate for various tasks and how to assess tool accuracy and precision; must understand the concept of standards traceability for M&TE.
- Must understand and be able to apply basic inspection and testing techniques, including various types of sampling plans; must be able to read and interpret blueprints (drawings), including geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T).
- Must understand and be able to apply various quality audit types and their components, tools, and techniques.
- Must understand and be able to apply the elements of corrective and preventive actions, including root cause analysis, failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA), and the control of nonconforming material.