California State University Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) in cooperation with the Los Angeles Section 0700 can help you prepare for the ASQ Certification. CSUDH offers non-credit refresher courses that are designed to aid the Quality Practitioner pass the ASQ professional certification examination. This certification is a recognized professional accomplishment bound to enhance your career and personal marketability.

These refresher courses are offered on the Internet in the following five disciplines:

Courses

NBQA 701 Certified Quality Manager Preparation Capstone
NBQA 702 Certified Quality Engineer Preparation Capstone
NBQA 703 Certified Quality Auditor Preparation Capstone
NBQA 704 Certified Reliability Engineer Preparation Capstone
NBQA 705 Certified Software Quality Engineer Preparation Capstone

Each student will receive a Letter of Completion signed by the Dean of CSUDH Extended Education and the Section Chair of Los Angeles Section 0700 following successful completion of the capstone course. ASQLA will recognize the successful completion of each capstone course by awarding 0.1 Re-registration Units (RU's) per hour of classroom instruction. Reference to the Re-Certification Unit will appear on the Letter of Completion for each capstone course completed.

CSUDH Certificate Awards

CSUDH also offers Certificate Awards for students who complete three graduate level courses from the MSQA program and the appropriate capstone course. The student may take these courses through "open university" thus need not be enrolled in the MSQA program. Each student who satisfactorily completes a non-credit capstone course and the associated three graduate level credit courses from the MSQA program will be provided the following Certificate Award(s):

Certificate Award in Quality Management

NBQA 701 Certified Quality Manager Preparation Capstone (n/c)
QAS 511 Quality Function Management and TQM (3cr.)
QAS 518 Quality Project Management and Productivity (3cr.)
QAS 527 Quality Measurement (3cr.) or QAS 526 Supplier Quality
Note: QAS 520 may be used as a substitute for QAS 526 or QAS 527

Certificate Award in Quality Engineering

NBQA 702 Certified Quality Engineer Preparation Capstone (n/c)
QAS 510 Advance Probability and Statistics (3cr.)
QAS 513 Statistical Quality Control and Sampling (3cr.)
QAS 514 Advanced Experimental Design (3cr.)

Certificate Award in Quality Auditing

NBQA 703 Certified Quality Auditor Capstone (n/c)
QAS 511 Quality Function Management and TQM (3cr.)
QAS 527 Quality Measurement (3cr.) or QAS 526 Supplier Quality
QAS 525 ISO 9000 and the Audit Function (3cr.)
Note: QAS 520 may be used as a substitute for QAS 526 or QAS 527

Certificate Award in Reliability Engineering

NBQA 704 Certified Reliability Engineer Preparation Capstone (n/c)
QAS 510 Advance Probability and Statistics (3cr.)
QAS 512 Reliability Engineering (3cr.)
QAS 513 Statistical Quality Control and Sampling (3cr.)

Certificate Award in Software Quality Engineering

NBQA 705 Certified Software Quality Engineer Preparation Capstone (n/c)
QAS 510 Advance Probability and Statistics (3cr.)
QAS 513 Statistical Quality Control and Sampling (3cr.)
QAS 523 Software Reliability (3cr.)

FEES & SERVICE CHARGES RELATING TO CAPSTONE COURSES

Fees are set and collected in accordance with established University policy. At the present time the student course fees are as follows:

QAS Courses on campus $465
QAS Courses on the Internet $465
NBQA (Capstone) Courses $350 (On the Internet)

Further information may be obtained by contacting the University by telephone or Internet.

Telephone: 1-310-243-3880 (MSQA office)
Internet: http://www.csudh.edu/msqa