QFD-based technical textbook evaluation - Procedure and a case study

Journal of Industrial Technology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2001, Pages

  Chen, Jacob ^a   Chen, Joseph C ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Curriculum; Quality; Teaching Methods

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION MATRIX; QUALITY; STATISTICAL QUALITY CONTROL (SQC); TEACHING METHODS; TECHNICAL TEXTBOOKS; TOTAL QUALITY CONTROL (TQC);

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER AIDED MANUFACTURING; CURRICULA; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; PRODUCT DESIGN; QUALITY CONTROL; STATISTICAL METHODS; STUDENTS; TEACHING; TEXTBOOKS;

QUALITY FUNCTION DEPLOYMENT;

EID: 3242743664     PISSN: 08826404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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