First-cycle Education in Quality Technology and Logistics

The majority of our course activities on campus are within the master's degree program Industrial Economics, with 80-100 students per cohort.

For all these students, we provide the basic course in quality development with a smorgasbord of both qualitative (customer satisfaction, service quality, employee relations, ISO9000, customer-centered planning, etc.) and quantitative (statistical process control, efficiency, reliability, trial planning, etc.) tools and working methods in the quality area.

All programme students also read the in-depth course customer-focused product development, which covers, for example, survey methodology, customer-centered planning, conjoint analysis and creativity methods.

Specialisations

The program has four specialisations (Quality Development, Logistics, Marketing and Strategy) and about a quarter of the students usually choose Quality Development.

For these students, we provide the advanced courses Statistical process control and Six Sigma (control charts, capability studies, measurement system analysis, Black Belt projects, etc.), Experiment planning (reduced factor experiments, response surfaces, split-plot experiments, robust construction, etc.) and Operational quality management (process management, seven management tools, self-evaluation, Lean etc.).

The program ends with a degree project of 30 credits semester 10 and the subject Quality Technology usually supervises about 10-15 degree projects per year.

The program has four specialisations (Quality Development, Logistics, Marketing and Strategy) and about a quarter of the students usually choose Quality Development.

For these students, we provide the advanced courses Statistical process control and Six Sigma (control charts, capability studies, measurement system analysis, Black Belt projects, etc.), Experiment planning (reduced factor experiments, response surfaces, split-plot experiments, robust construction, etc.) and Operational quality management (process management, seven management tools, self-evaluation, Lean etc.).

The program ends with a degree project of 30 credits semester 10 and the subject Quality Technology usually supervises about 10-15 degree projects per year.

Distance courses

In order to also reach out to students outside the campus, we have the distance courses Quality Development - Values, working methods and tools (basic course and continuation course) and Introduction to Lean.

These courses usually have a very high number of applications and the typical student is middle-aged and full-time working, often in some kind of leading or developing position in a company, government agency, municipality or county council.

The distance courses are conducted at a 25 percent study rate and without any meetings in Luleå, to suit as many people as possible.