Six Sigma approved as new undergraduate minor
Beginning this fall, students can officially declare a new business management minor offered by the industrial engineering department, known as Six Sigma.
Six Sigma, originally implemented by Motorola in 1986, is a structured, quantitative approach to improving the quality and cost of products and processes. In its most simple sense, Six Sigma is a highly disciplined method to decision making that helps people focus on improving processes to make them near perfect; the technique measures defects in a process and systematically figures out how to eliminate them to get as close to zero defects as possible.
While businesses worldwide have been utilizing Six Sigma for over two decades to save money and manufacture better products, the demand for employees with this knowledge remains high. Well-known companies, such as Boeing, Hershey, Lockheed Martin, and UPS use the methodology and look for these statistical and managerial skills when they recruit students.
This 18 credit minor is open to any student interested in learning the methodology. For more information on the Six Sigma minor, visit the Six Sigma minor page.