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Basics of Quality (5 cr)

Code: 5021102-3003

General information


Enrollment

31.07.2021 - 12.09.2021

Timing

30.08.2021 - 31.12.2021

Number of ECTS credits allocated

5 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Unit

Engineering and Business

Campus

Kupittaa Campus

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Degree programmes

  • Degree Programme in Biotechnology and Chemical Engineering

Teachers

  • Taina Hovinen
  • Patric Granholm

Groups

  • PBIOKES19
  • PBIOKES19A
    PBIOKES19A
  • PBIOKES19elintarvike
    PBIOKES19elintarvike
  • PBIOKES19B
    PBIOKES19B

Objective

The student knows the basic terminology of quality and metrology and identifies various quality control systems. The student knows how to estimate the uncertainty of measurements. The student is able to use statistical methods to estimate the reliability of the measurements in the report.

Content

The terminology of quality, metrology and quality system. The basics of statistics in the laboratory, the reliability of measurements.

Materials

To be announced later

Teaching methods

Statistics Student centric teaching methods

Exam schedules

Statistics: To be announced later

International connections

Statistics: Guided exercises and self study

Student workload

Statistics
Guided exercices: 20 h
Independent work 34 h

Content scheduling

Statistics:
- File formats and reading data files
- Data cleansing, outlier tests
- Graphical representation of data
- Curve fitting, linear regression
- Sampling and descriptive statistical
- Statistical tests, Z- test, F-test, Student's t-test

Evaluation scale

H-5

Assessment methods and criteria

Statistics: Assessment is based on one final exam

Assessment criteria, fail (0)

Statistics < 50 % of the total exam scores

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1-2)

Statistics 60-70 % of the total exam scores

Assessment criteria, good (3-4)

Statistics 70-80 % of the total exam scores

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

Statistics > 90 % of the total exam scores