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Quality Assurance and Reliability

Code: 102716
Credits: 6
2026/2027
Degree programme Type Course
Telecommunication Systems Engineering OP 4
Electronic Engineering for Telecommunication OP 4

Contact lecturer

Name :
Jordi Suñé Tarruella
Email :
jordi.sune@uab.cat

Teaching staff

Adria Galin Pons

Group languages

You can consult this information at the end of the document.

Prerequisites

None is required for the students of the sudents of the degree

Objectives

The objectives are that the student acquires the competences related to the management of the quality and the reliability, within the context of the optional matter of Quality and Production. The subject is specifically oriented towards the field of electronic engineering and telecommunication systems. The student must be able to design quality plans and specify and differentiate levels of quality in production processes. In addition, the student can analyze the reliability of systems, design reliability tests and contrast them with specifications of reliability through international standards.

Learning outcomes

  1. Specify and apply standard procedures for quality control and design of acceptance plans.
  2. Specify, using coloured Petri net formalism, both mandatory standards and all those
  3. Manage available time and resources.
  4. Prevent and solve problems.
  5. Make one's own decisions.
  6. Work in complex or uncertain surroundings and with limited resources.
  7. Work cooperatively.
  8. Develop curiosity and creativity.
  9. Generate innovative and competitive proposals in professional activity.
  10. Identify and manage the aspects of ethical and professional responsibility in accordance with the planning of quality and reliability in electronic or telecommunications systems.
  11. Manage, organise and plan standard procedures in specifications and reliability tests in the field of electronics and communications.
  12. Manage available time and resources. Work in an organised manner.
  13. Prevent and solve problems.
  14. Specifying and implementing the standard for quality control and design plans acceptance procedures.
  15. "Specify under the formalism of Colored Petri Nets both mandatory rules, like all those ""recipes"" of production and / or distribution."
  16. Manage, organize and plan standardized specifications and reliability testing procedures in the field of electronics and communications.
  17. Identify those aspects that require decision-making process due among others to the flexibility with which they have been endowed current manufacturing systems.

Contents

Brief description of the contents:
• Quality management in the field of Electronics and Telecommunications
• Statistical process control.
• Design of quality acceptance plans.
• Reliability of simple and complex systems.
• Reliability test design.

Learning activities and methodology

Title Hours ECTS Learning outcomes
Tutorials 12 0.48 1, 10, 11, 12, 13
Study, problem solving and reporting 74 2.96 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17
Practical sessions 9 0.36 1, 10, 11, 12, 13
Exercises 11 0.44 1, 10, 11, 12, 13
Theoretical classes and follow-up in the classroom 22 0.88 1, 10, 11, 12, 15

Classroom teaching along with work to be performed by the student, classroom and home work and practical sessions. The virtual campus and electronic repositories will be used as tools for communication and documentary support.

The use of AI tools is allowed in this course.

For the practical sessions and to do exercices in class, a personal computer is required. In case that a student does not have its own computer, it will be possible to share that of a classmate.

Annotation: within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.

Assessment

Continuous assessment activities

Title Weight Hours ECTS Learning outcomes
Attendance to class and participation. Resolution of exercices at home and in class. 25% 10 0.4 1, 5, 7, 11, 14, 15, 16
1st partial exam 25% 2 0.08 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17
Recovery exam 75% 4 0.16 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17
Realization and reports of the practical sessions 25% 4 0.16 1, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13
2nd partial exam 25% 2 0.08 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17

a) Scheduled evaluation process and activities


The evaluation of the acquisition of competences by students is done with continuous evaluation, according to these criteria:

A. First partial exam, half of the semester aprox. (25%)

B. Second partial exam, towards the end of the semester. (25%)

C. Realization and reports of the practical sessions. (25%). This is a team activity both for the practical realization and for the report.

D. Attendance and participation in class as well as resolution of exercices in class and at home (25%)

To pass the course through continuous evaluation, a minimum of 3,5/10 punts en les activitats A i B and global mark of 5/10 punts are required. Activity C is compulsary (impossible to pass the course without it) and not recoverable.

For academic needs, and according to the development of the course, the evaluation procedures may be adjusted by the professor.

b) Programming evaluation activities

The programming of evaluation activities A and B will be made public through the Virtual Campus.


c) Recovery process

The student can apply for the recovery exam provided that he/she has participated in at least 50% of the considered activities (A-C). Activity C is not recoverable.

d) Procedure for review of qualifications

For activitiesA and B a place, date and time of review will be indicated. Claims may be made on the activity grade, which will be evaluated by the faculty responsible for the subject. If the student does not show up in this programmed review session, no possibility of review will be allowed.

e) Qualifications

The regulations of the UAB indicate that MH can onlybe granted to students who have obtained a final grade equal to or greater than 9.00. You can grant up to 5% of MH of the total number of students enrolled.

Not Evaluable: A student will be considered not evaluable (NA) if he has not presented in a set of activities theweight of which equals a minimum of two thirds of the total grade of the subject.

Final mark for the evaluable students. To pass it is necessary that the evaluation of each of the parties exceeds the minimum grade required and that the total evaluation, taking into account the weights of each activity, have a grade equal to or greater than 5. In case of not passing the subject, the numerical note of the file will be the lowest value between 4.5 and the weighted average of the notes.


f) Irregularities by the student, copy and plagiarism

Without prejudice to other disciplinary measures deemed appropriate, the irregularities committed by the student that may lead to a variation of the grade of an evaluation act will be scored with a zero. Therefore, copying, plagiarism, cheating, letting copy, etc. in any of the evaluation activities will involve suspending with a zero. The evaluation activities qualified in this way and by this procedure will not be recoverable. If it is necessary to pass any of these evaluation activities to pass the subject, this subject will be suspended directly, without the opportunity to recover it in the same course. The final grade will be that which results from thecorresponding weights of each part, but at most a final grade of the subject of 3 points.

h) Evaluation of repeating students

From the second enrollment, the evaluation of the subject will consist of a synthesis test, plus the mark corresponding activity C (with the corresponding weight) obtained the first time the student has enrolled in the subject will be considered. To be eligible for this differentiated evaluation, the repeating student must ask the teacher by email no later than 4 weeks after the beginning of the classes.

This course cannot be evaluated with the system \"avaluació única\".

The proposed teaching and evaluation methodologies may be subjected tomodification, depending on possible restrictions imposed by the health authorities on face-to-face attendance.

Software

Matlab and/or advanced MS Excel

Course groups and languages

The information provided is provisional until November 30. After this date, you will be able to consult the language of each group through this link. To access the information, you will need to enter the course CODE

Type of teaching Group Language Semester Shift
(TE) Theory 310 Catalan/Spanish second semester morning-mixed
(PAUL) Classroom practices 311 Catalan/Spanish second semester morning-mixed
(PLAB) Practical laboratories 331 Catalan/Spanish second semester morning-mixed