Quality and Environment Systems
| Structure Type: | Course |
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| Code: | KD07CHYR419 |
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| Type: | Elective |
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| Level: | Bachelor |
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| Credits: | 4.0 points |
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| Responsible Teacher: | Turunen, Tero |
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| Teacher Team: | Imppola, Jorma |
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| Language of Instruction: | Finnish |
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Course Implementations, Planned Year of Study and Semester
| Curriculum | Semester | Credits | Start of Semester | End of Semester |
| LITAKO-2013 |
3 spring |
4.0 |
2016-01-01 |
2016-07-31 |
| LITAKO-2014 |
3 spring |
4.0 |
2017-01-01 |
2017-07-31 |
| PK-2014 |
3 autumn |
4.0 |
2017-08-01 |
2017-12-31 |
Learning Outcomes
The student has basic knowledge about:
- the environmental factors affecting human beings and their operational environment
- the relations between production activities and environment
- the effects of production in local, regional and global level.
Student can explain the basic concept of quality control. Student can use the common quality tools and statistical process control. Student can identify quality costs and their significance.
Student knows the background of quality and environmental systems. Student can present different quality systems and their structure and criteria of different quality awards. Student knows auditing and accredition processes
Student's Workload
- Total work load of the course: 107 h
- of which lectures and seminar: 40 h
- of which autonomous studies including writing assignment: 67 h
Prerequisites / Recommended Optional Courses
No prerequisites
Contents
- Environmental concepts and the sustainable development
- Renewable and unrenewable natural resources; utilisation and its affects
- The history of quality control
- Measuring quality and quality meters
- Basic quality tools
- Quality costs (internal and external)
- The background of quality and environmental systems
- Quality system ISO 9000
- Quality awards (Malcolm, Balridge, EQA)
- Environmental systems ISO 14000. EMAS and ISO 26000
- Commercial and ideological systems. badges and certificatesl
- Audition and accredition
Recommended or Required Reading
- Lecture materials
- Other materials announced by the lecturer
Mode of Delivery / Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
- Lectures
- Written assignment which is presented at the seminar during the last session
Assessment Criteria
1
The student has satisfactory basic knowledge about the environmental factors affecting human beings and their operational environment, the relations between production activities and environment and the effects of production in local, regional and global level.
Student can satisfyingly explain the basic concept of quality control. Student can satisfyingly use the common quality tools and statistical process control. Student can satisfyingly identify quality costs and their significance.
Student knows satisfyingly the background of quality and environmental systems. Student can satisfyingly present different quality systems and their structure and different quality award criterias. Student knows satisfactory the auditing and accrediting processes.
3
The student has good basic knowledge about the environmental factors affecting human beings and their operational environment, the relations between production activities and environment and the effects of production in local, regional and global level.
Student can well explain the basic concept of quality control. Student can well use the common quality tools and statistical process control. Student can well identify quality costs and their significance.
Student knows well the background of quality and environmental systems. Student can well present different quality systems and their structure and different quality award criterias. Student knows well the auditing and accrediting processes.
5
The student has excellent basic knowledge about the environmental factors affecting human beings and their operational environment, the relations between production activities and environment and the effects of production in local, regional and global level.
Student can excelently explain the basic concept of quality control. Student can excellently use the common quality tools and statistical process control. Student can excellently identify quality costs and their significance.
Student knows excellently the background of quality and environmental systems. Student can excellently present different quality systems and their structure and different quality award criterias. Student knows excellently the auditing and accrediting processes.
Assessment Methods
- Home exam 50 %
- Writing assignment and its presentation 50 %
Work Placement
None.
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