Proposal of Cooperation
The Department of Quality Management provides organizations with unique know-how and deep knowledge in all areas of modern quality management and integrated management, in the form of custom-made training programmes, consultancy and development projects.
Department also provides an opportunity to publish papers and exchange experience in the online journal Q-magazine, issued by the department twice a year.
Cooperation with practice is implemented to a great extent through elaboration of bachelor’s and master’s theses. Moreover, members of the department participate in solving current problems regarding assurance of product quality and development projects, and also provide specialized courses for company personnel.
Examples of cooperation with practice in the last five years:
- A cycle of professional courses titled „A Functional Academy of Quality" for staff of ArcelorMittal Ostrava; 2015 – 2016.
- Prediction of quality of coke on the basis of the quality of a coal mixture; ArcelorMittal Ostrava a.s. (v současnosti Liberty Ostrava a.s.), 2015.
- A course for internal auditors, based on the standard ISO 9001, for staff of ATE System, Ostrava; 2016.
- A course „Requirements of the standard ISO 9001:2015" for staff of AustinDetonator, Vsetín, 2017.
- A cycle of professional courses in quality management for staff of ŠKODA AUTO a.s., Mladá Boleslav, 2017 – 2019.
The Department’s International Cooperation
Since 2000 the Department of Quality Management has participated in four projects of the Leonardo da Vinci programme, in one project of the sixth EU framework programme and in one project funded by the Visegrad grants. Within the Erasmus programme, the department’s teachers completed a series of lecture visits to foreign universities. There have been 11 such visits to Spanish, Swedish and Polish universities in the last ten years.
Students of the study programmes guaranteed by the department also take the opportunity to study at foreign universities within the Erasmus programme. To give an example, based on the department’s cooperation with the Swedish Linköping University, since 2005 sixteen students (including doctoral students) have undertaken a study visit there. The department also organizes lectures presented by foreign experts for students.
Students from abroad, who visit VŠB-Technical University of Ostrava within Erasmus programme, are provided with instruction of many subjects in English by the department. The provided subjects draw a lot of interest – in the academic year 2017/2018, for instance, 25 foreign students passed the subject Quality Planning I. In the years 2017 and 2018 the department organized an international summer school for foreign students, titled New Approaches to Quality Management.