TY - JOUR
T1 - A one-seraester, laboratory-based, quality-oriented statistics curriculum for engineering students
AU - Barton, Russell R.
AU - Nowack, Craig A.
N1 - Funding Information:
Russell R. Barton is Professor, and Craig A. Nowack is a Graduate Student, Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, College of Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, 207 Hammond Building, University Park, PA 16802-1401 (E-mail: [email protected]). Funding for course development was provided by an IBM Total Quality Management grant, the State of Pennsylvania, and NSF Grant DMI-9413880. Laura Raiman Dupont was instrumental in the initial development of course materials and funding. We acknowledge the helpful com-. ments of the anonymous referees.
PY - 1998/8
Y1 - 1998/8
N2 - This article describes a new laboratory-based undergraduate engineering statistics course being offered by the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Penn State. The course is intended as a service course for engineering students outside of industrial engineering. We describe the topics covered in each of the eight modules of the course and how the laboratories are linked to the lecture material. We describe how the course is implemented, including facilities used, the course text, grading, student enrollment, and the implementation of continuous quality improvement in the classroom. We conclude with some remarks on the benefits of the laboratories, the effects of CQI in the classroom, and dissemination of course materials.
AB - This article describes a new laboratory-based undergraduate engineering statistics course being offered by the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Penn State. The course is intended as a service course for engineering students outside of industrial engineering. We describe the topics covered in each of the eight modules of the course and how the laboratories are linked to the lecture material. We describe how the course is implemented, including facilities used, the course text, grading, student enrollment, and the implementation of continuous quality improvement in the classroom. We conclude with some remarks on the benefits of the laboratories, the effects of CQI in the classroom, and dissemination of course materials.
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U2 - 10.1080/00031305.1998.10480569
DO - 10.1080/00031305.1998.10480569
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0032377584
SN - 0003-1305
VL - 52
SP - 233
EP - 238
JO - American Statistician
JF - American Statistician
IS - 3
ER -