Certificate Course on “Quality Management for Laboratory” supported by HKSQ

I would like to introduce the coming training course entitled “Quality Management for Laboratory” organized by Hong Kong Society for Quality (HKSQ) and Dept. of Biology and Chemistry, The City University of Hong Kong (BCH, CityU HK).

In 2002, I recognized that students, studying chemistry and/or biology, did not understand the industrial requirements on laboratory operations. Thus, I delivered two special training seminars on the related context for BCH students in CityU HK. After that, the relevant body of knowledge was proposed by Dr. KS Chin and I (representatives of HKSQ), as well as, Dr. Richard Cheung and Dr. Michael Lam (representatives of BCH, CityU HK) to the Head of BCH Department and it was supported positively. Now, it is the fifth intake and the end date will be on 21st January 2010. (More details: http://www.hksq.org/nevents.htm )

The leaflet of the special seminar 2002 is shown.


The course not only includes lectures and laboratory works, but also laboratories visits. Therefore, students would gain some experience in the commercial laboratory environment. Some photos are shown as follows:

Lectures:
Dr. Lam’s Lecture in 2005

My Lecture in 2006

Examination:
Photo taken in 2005

Laboratory Visit:
2005 HKPC

2006 HKSTP

2007 HAECO

2008 HKSTP

Quality Management for Laboratory is a certificate course to fill the gap between the industry requirements and tertiary education. It is one of the deliverables after I studied the contribution of quality society in 2008 and developed the Quality Professional Development (QProfD) Gap Analysis Model which aimed to analyze the process of developing the body of knowledge for quality professionals between the talents needed by industry and talents trained by Educational Institution.
(My presentation recorded in http://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2008/10/anq-2008-part-2.html )

In addition, by considering the industrial needs, a bachelor course entitled “Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) in Total Quality Engineering (BETQE)” was developed by Department of Manufacturing Engineering and Engineering Management (MEEM), CityU HK in 2009. (For Details: http://www.cityu.edu.hk/meem/prg-betqe.htm)
The Bachelor degree was expected to fill the gap of “Differences between Industry’s expectations of competent Quality Professionals, and Educational Institution’s perceptions of those expectations”.


Reference:
Lai, Lotto K.H., Chin, K.S. & Tsang, A.H.C. (2008) “A Conceptual Model on Development of Quality Professionals” Proceedings CD-ROM of The sixth ANQ Congress, paper C1-05.