Borror Connie M. (ed.) The Certified Quality Engineer Handbook

3rd edition. — ASQ Quality Press, 2009. — 667 p.This handbook will guide you through the recently updated body of knowledge and provide you with an exceptionally relevant textbook in your preparation for taking the CQE examination.The third edition of The Certified Engineering Handbook was written to provide the quality professional with an updated resource that follows the CQE
Body of Knowledge. Today it is not uncommon for the quality engineer to be involved in quality improvement activities in healthcare, finance, education, software applications, and other nonmanufacturing sectors. In response, numerous new examples and illustrations that cover applications in some of these areas are included in this edition.Key features of the third edition include:
New and updated references;
Extensive revision of the statistical methods complete with numerous updated examples and illustrations;
Over 75 new glossary entries.Much of the material in Parts I and II of the second edition has been retained in this edition, with updated references. However, the reader will find an extensive revision of the statistical methods presented throughout the book. Part V and Part VI have been significantly revised with new discussion, definitions, and examples illustrating each of the statistical techniques as they appear in the Body of Knowledge. Portions of Part IV have also been rewritten to reflect advances in methods and applications in quality improvement activities such as conducting gage repeatability and reproducibility studies.