• Graduate Certificate in Quality Assurance – Manufacturing and Management at Sheridan College is offered as a 1-year teaching program.
  • This certificate program has a co-op work option.
  • In order to be eligible to participate in a full-time Co-op Work Term, students must meet the GPA requirements.
  • The student to faculty ratio is 17:1 which bridges the gap between faculty and students.
  • Some of the main courses that students will study in this program are:
    • Quality Planning
    • Fundamentals and Principles of Quality Assurance
    • Engineering Statistics
    • Statistical Quality Controls
    • International Standard for Quality
  • Implement and document national and international quality assurance standards such as ISO 9000 and TS 16949.
  • Design and perform experiments to determine critical areas of product development and analyze the results and form conclusions for quality improvement.
  • Use statistical process control techniques (SPC) recognized throughout industries to ensure the quality level of products.
  • Lead or work with quality assurance professionals to assess, evaluate and improve quality planning procedures to ensure quality production using accepted quality assurance techniques, including Failure Mode and Effect Analyses (FMEA), Production Part Approval Process (PPAP), Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP).
  • Apply the principles and techniques of Total Quality Management in improving quality practices within an industrial or service organization.
  • Career positions may include: 
    • ISO Coordinator
    • Quality Assurance Auditor
    • Quality Assurance Professional
    • Quality Control Inspector
    • Quality Control Supervisor, etc with an average salary of 26,475 USD per year.