Contact: Maridith Geuder
Ways to enhance and improve business, industrial and individual workplace settings will be the focus of a four-week course beginning later this month at Mississippi State.
Offered through the university's Division of Continuing Education, "Foundations in Quality Learning Series: Quality 101" will meet 6-9 p.m. on consecutive Tuesdays from Feb. 25 to March 25. Classes will be held in Memorial Hall, which is located across Barr Avenue from Davis Wade Stadium.
Amy Vickery, MSU program coordinator for professional development, said the course curriculum was developed by the American Society for Quality to assist individuals and organizations seeking to improve basic workplace competency skills. The training also parallels the body of knowledge required to successfully complete ASQ's Certified Quality Improvement Associate certification examination, she added.
Based in Milwaukee, Wis., ASQ includes more than 100,000 individual members and more than 1,000 organizational members worldwide.
"We're offering this learning series because we've been highly impressed with the organization and its principles," Vickery said, noting that ASQ certification can be especially beneficial to employees in the fields of technology, engineering, management, and customer service, among others.
She said Quality 101 also satisfies certain human resource requirements and provides documentation for new International Organization for Standards requirements covering competence, awareness and training.
For information on course fees and content, visit http://www.ce.msstate.edu/ptd/ or contact Vickery at (662) 325-0705 or avickery@ce.msstate.edu.