Strategic Quality Management, Lean Sigma Systems - MSc

Year 1

Semester 1

Lean Thinking/Lean Tools 1

The module will explain the concepts behind the Lean tools, and will examine the various elements involved in effectively using these tools to support the organisation's Lean transformation

Leadership & Change Management

This module actively engages students in three key areas of academic study: Leadership, Change Management and Teams.  The module builds on students’ professional and personal experiences while highlighting relevant and influential thinking drawn from the literature.  

Semester 2

Lean Thinking/Lean Tools 2

This module will expand the principles, tools and techniques of Lean Thinking/Lean Tools I and will look at additional lean tools and the how-to knowledge of tool deployment 

Lean Project/Lean Healthcare Project

Students will be required to integrate the different aspects of the taught modules and apply the acquired knowledge to a business standard, industry focused Black Belt project.

Year2

Semester 1

Quality Science Introduction (M)

Introduces the concept of Quality Science, and provides a broad foundation in the statistical methods and statistical thinking that form the basis of the Six Sigma process.  It will provide the statistical skills necessary to visualise and interpret data for better decision making.

Problem Solving Tools and Techniques (M)

This module aims to understand the principles, tools and techniques of Six Sigma and how they can be implemented in the manufacturing and service sectors to deliver strategic objectives.

Semester 2

Quality Science Advanced

This module will provide a detailed understanding of the key features of experimental design from theory, through construction, to application and will develop student understanding of designed experiments to Six Sigma Black Belt level. 

Six Sigma Project

Students will be required to integrate the different aspects of the taught modules and apply the acquired knowledge to a business standard, industry focused Black Belt project.

Summer

Enterprise Improvement Project

Building on the content of the Lean and Six Sigma project modules in year 1 and year 2 respectively, the students will produce a substantial piece of work that will demonstrate that they have developed intellectual insight into the subject of lean sigma systems and an understanding of the theories from various disciplines as they apply.

  There are a number of routes through the Masters in Strategic Quality Management, Lean Sigma Systems.

• Enrol directly and complete within a two year timeframe  OR
• Having completed either the Professional Diploma in Lean Systems OR the Professional Diploma in Six Sigma, be enrolled directly to Year 2 of the Masters and complete the remaining modules in one year (in tandem with the Enterprise Improvement Project/Thesis) OR
• Having completed both the Professional Diploma in Lean Systems AND the Professional Diploma in Six Sigma be enrolled directly to Year 2 of the Masters and complete the Enterprise Improvement Project/Thesis in one year.