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American Society for Quality
San Antonio Section 1404
2003-2004
Continuing Quality Education Program

Course Catalog

Training services provided for people working in the quality fields
American Society for Quality
The San Antonio Section 1404

QUALITY - YOUR BEST IMAGE

Have you noticed that a revolution is taking place in America's industry? To compete in the world economy, small and large businesses are converting to Total Quality Management concepts. The object is to do the job right the first time and continue to improve the quality of the products and services to provide the very best image to the customer.

Everyone in the business benefits from quality. Whether your business involves services, engineering, marketing, planning, manufacturing, or shipping; quality assurance technology has benefits for you.

Yes, quality is everyone's job because total quality involves all the business functions. Quality depends on all stages of product, service, development, and delivery. Total quality is achieved only if all functions work together properly.

Your career and future will benefit by your leadership in supporting quality through the training of yourself or your personnel in:

  • Quality assurance principles
  • Quality control principles
  • Quality control applications
  • Reliability principles and practices
  • Mechanical inspection and test principles and practices
  • Quality auditing principles and practices

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How can you help support quality in your career or business?

You can support the quality professional in your organization by encouraging membership in the American Society for Quality (ASQ) and the ASQ certification of the personnel in your quality organizations.

ASQ is the professional organization that promotes quality and the quality professional. ASQ provides a forum for the quality professional to improve skills and job enrichment that improves the product or service of his or her company. ASQ provides educational services to you or your personnel. The ASQ San Antonio Section has a training program that is tailored toward the certification of quality auditors, quality engineers, reliability engineers, quality technicians, and mechanical inspectors.

You or your personnel will gain a sound understanding of quality assurance principles, concepts, methodology, and processes used in the business environment. In your highly competitive and fast changing economic environment, this training will help you and your personnel to do a better job in providing quality products and services. A better job means fewer errors and more profits. Your career and America's future depend on quality.

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How can the ASQ program be used?

For your purposes, you may want to pick college courses that will help you on the job. Consider job enrichment as first priority, closely followed by courses that will enable you to pass a certification examination of the American Society for Quality. When you have the background, the ASQ provides the refresher courses to help prepare you for the certification examination.

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The ASQ Courses

The ASQ San Antonio Section supplements community college training by providing refresher courses and professional development seminars to aid the quality professional in passing the certification examinations. During the Fall, Winter, and Spring of every year, the ASQ San Antonio Section offers their training Seminars:

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CONTENT

The seminars are listed as they occur within each subject area. The seminar dates are to be determined by student enrollment.

The instructors provided for each seminar are qualified. The instructors are chosen by The San Antonio Section's Education Committee and come from those listed in the CQA Certified Quality Auditor Refresher Instructors section.

CQA Certified Quality Auditor Course
CQE Certified Quality Engineer Refresher
CQT Certified Quality Technician and CMI
CRE Certified Reliability Engineer Refresher
Exams
Refund Policy
Registration
More information

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CQA Quality Auditor Course

This nine-week course is designed as a refresher course to help prepare experienced quality personnel for the ASQ Quality Auditor certification examination or for a Certified Quality Auditor (CQA) who wishes job enhancement through additional training. (See page 8 for the schedule.) This course also qualifies for 3.1 RU's toward recertification.

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Who should attend?

Experienced quality personnel who would like to review quality audit methods and processes prior to taking the ASQ Certified Quality Auditor examination.

A quality engineer who desires additional training or an update of old skills from broad applications oriented auditing refresher course.

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TOPICS

The course will include the following bodies of knowledge:

  • Quality audit program planning and management
  • Organizing the audit function
  • Staffing and training auditors
  • Planning audits
  • Performing audits
  • Feedback and corrective action
  • Evaluating and improving the audit program

REGISTRATION for CQA

Seminar Fee (text Included):

The ASQ members fee is $350.

The minimum number of students required for the course is seven (7);
the maximum number of students required for the course is twenty-five (25). If the minimum number of students have not signed up by the sign-up date the course will be canceled and the students who have signed up will receive a full refund.

Complete the registration form and send the form with payment to:

Tim Mora
210-913-5104

CQE Certified Quality Engineer
Refresher

This ten-week course is designed as a refresher course to help prepare the experienced engineer for the ASQ Quality Engineer certification examination or for a Certified Quality Engineer (CQE) who wishes job enhancement through additional training. (See page 8 for the schedule.) This course also qualifies for 4.0 RU's toward recertification.

Who should attend?

A person with basic probability, statistics, and reliability training. The person will review a variety of quality tools, systems, procedures, processes, methods and technologies in order to improve his/her skills prior to taking the ASQ Certified Quality Engineer examination; or a quality engineer that needs additional training or an update of old skills from a broad application oriented refresher course.

TOPICS

The topics in the course will cover the following bodies of knowledge:

  • Cost of quality
  • Metrology
  • Basic statistics
  • Introductory probability
  • Advanced statistics
  • Sampling
  • Reliability
  • Quality systems
  • Human resource management

REGISTRATION for CQE

Seminar Fee: (text included)
ASQ members - $365.
The minimum number of students required for the seminar is six (6): the maximum number is twelve (12). If the minimum number of students have not signed up by sign-up date, the course will be canceled and the students who have signed up will receive a full refund.
Complete the registration form and send the form with payment to:

Tim Mora
210-913-5104

CQT Certified Quality Technician and CMI Refresher

This ten-week seminar is designed as a refresher course to help the experienced:

Mechanical Inspector prepare for the ASQ Certified Mechanical Inspector examination

Quality Technician prepare for the ASQ Quality Technician certification examination.

This course also qualifies for 3.5 RU's toward recertification. (See page 8 for the schedule.)

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Who should attend?

An inspector with two years of related technical experience who would like to review mechanical inspection skills prior to taking the ASQ Certified Mechanical Inspector examination.

A Certified Mechanical Inspector who desires additional training or an update of old skills from an application oriented refresher course.

A Quality Technician with two years of related technical experience who would like to review quality technician skills prior to taking the ASQ Certified Quality Technician examination.

Personnel who want to learn the basics of quality control.

TOPICS

The course will include the following bodies of knowledge:

  • Algebra, Geometry, and Trigonometry
  • Nondestructive testing, heat treatment
  • Drawing interpretation
  • Metrology, Calibration
  • Geometric Dimension and Tolerancing
  • Statistical Process Control
  • Quality Control Concepts
  • Nondestructive testing
  • Descriptive statistics
  • Statistical Process Control
  • Quality Costs
  • Reliability
  • Quality Audits
  • Problem solving techniques

Registration

Seminar Fee (text Included):

ASQ members $365

This course is eight weeks long. The minimum number of students for the course is seven (7); the maximum number of students for the course is 25. If the minimum number of students have not signed up by the sign-up date, the course will be canceled and the students who have signed up will receive a full refund.

Complete the registration form and send it with payment to:

Tim Mora
210-913-5104

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Reliability

CRE Certified Reliability Engineer
Refresher

This eight-week course is designed as a refresher course to help prepare the experienced reliability engineer for the ASQ Reliability Engineer certification examination or for a certified Reliability Engineer (CRE) who wishes job enhancement through additional training. (See page 8 for the schedule.)

This course also qualifies for 2.8 RU's toward recertification.

Who should attend?

A person with some basic probability, statistics, and reliability training. The person will review reliability methods and processes in order to improve his skills prior to taking the ASQ Certified Reliability Engineering examination.

An engineer that needs additional training or an update of old skills from a broad applications oriented refresher course.

The course will cover the following bodies of knowledge:

  • Reliability principles, concepts, and definitions
  • Reliability, maintainability, availability
  • Prediction, estimation, and apportionment methods
  • Failure mode, effect, criticality analysis
  • Parts selection and derating
  • Reliability design reviews
  • Data collection, analysis, reporting
  • Mathematical modelsHuman factors in reliability
  • Product Safety

REGISTRATION

Seminar Fee: (text Included):

ASQ members: $420.

The minimum number of students required for the course is five (5): the maximum number is fifteen (15). If the minimum number of students have not signed up by the sign-up date, the course will be canceled and the students who have signed up will receive a full refund.

Complete the registrations form and send it to:

Tim Mora
210-913-5104

Additional Copies of this Continuing Quality Education Program

You can obtain additional copies of this Continuing Quality Education Program. Call and ask for the ASQ San Antonio Section's Continuing Quality Education Program.

Schedule of ASQ Seminars

The ASQ Seminars are announced at the appropriate time.

ASQ EXAMINATIONS

Persons who plan to take a certification exam must send an application to ASQ headquarters. The applications come from ASQ headquarters. Call 1-800-248-1996.

Quality Engineer Certification (CQE) Exam Dates

Calibration Technician Certification (CCT) Exam Dates

Six Sigma Black Belt Certification Exam Dates

Quality Auditor Certification (CQA) Exam Dates

Quality Auditor Certification-Biomedical (CQA-Biomedical) Exam Dates

Reliability Engineer Certification (CRE) Exam Dates

Quality Technician Certification (CQT) Exam Dates

Mechanical Inspector Certification (CMI) Exam Dates

Quality Manager Certification Exam Dates

Software Quality Engineer Certification (CSQE) Exam Dates

Quality Improvement Associate Certification (CQIA) Exam Dates

Location of Seminars

Locations are included with the seminar announcements.

Refund Policy

The San Antonio Section has the following refund policy.

Prior to one week before the seminar start date the student is given a full refund. If the student asks for a refund between the start of classes and one week before the class, the student will receive one-half of the seminar fee. After the classes start, no refund is given.

"Free Repeats" for "2" years!!!.

For further clarification call:

San Antonio Section, Education Committee Chairman, Tim Mora, 210-913-5104.

Registration

Complete the form below and send with payment (checks only) to the ASQ Section 1404 Treasurer. Make checks payable to: ASQ Section 1404. Course or seminar coordinator's name, address and phone number is listed in each course description.

All ASQ non-members must add $72 to the seminar basic fee. This $72 will be used to apply for members to ASQ.

Non-members may apply for membership by requesting a membership packet from ASQ headquarters. Membership in ASQ is $72. Call 1-800-248-1996.

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Information
Where can more information on ASQ San Antonio Section, 1404, training courses be obtained?
Contact: Tim Mora 
Phone: (210) 913-5104 
Address: 11623 Enchanted Sunset St.
City San Antonio
State, Zip Texas 78253-5009