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| OUR MISSION AND GOALS |
MISSION:
To serve as a catalyst for creating and
distributing knowledge related to continuous
improvement in organizational effectiveness through
education, outreach, and research programs offered to
business, nonprofit, government, and academic
organizations.
GOALS:
Our educational goal is to encourage the
inclusion of continuous improvement issues in graduate
and undergraduate courses. Continuous improvement in
quality and performance is vital to the growth of the
quality sciences. Successfully enhancing the
continuous improvement content in the Department’s
courses, increases student awareness of, and skills to
deal with quality issues.
Our outreach goal is to establish and facilitate the
growth of a network committed to the basic concepts of
continuous process improvement and organizational
effectiveness, and promote the interaction and exchange
of information. Our activities promote interaction and
the exchange of information crucial to the advancement
of the quality sciences. Serving as an information resource
supports and promotes information exchange for both industry
and for academia. Such information exchange is vital to our
profession.
Our research goal is to encourage faculty and graduate
students to establish research streams in areas related to
continuous improvement. Research in the quality sciences is
fundamental to us, as an academic unit creating and distributing
knowledge. In recognition of the importance of research, we urge
faculty and students to develop research streams in the quality
sciences.
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