Title : 
Six Sigma and Educational Excellence
         
        
        
            Author_Institution : 
Multidiscipline Eng. Div., Republic of Singapore
         
        
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
The Six Sigma approach has been successfully applied to a wide variety of processes, in particular manufacturing and service sectors. However, we have not encountered any unique Six Sigma success stories related to educational context that are different from what is already available and reported in the Six Sigma literature. This paper is an exploratory study of the feasibility of adopting the Six Sigma framework in the educational context
         
        
            Keywords : 
educational courses; educational institutions; manufacturing processes; service industries; six sigma (quality); educational context; educational institutions; manufacturing process; service sectors; six sigma; Business; Couplings; Design engineering; Education; Educational institutions; Knowledge engineering; Manufacturing industries; Manufacturing processes; Seminars; Six sigma;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Management of Innovation and Technology, 2006 IEEE International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Singapore, China
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
1-4244-0147-X
         
        
            Electronic_ISBN : 
1-4244-0148-8
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ICMIT.2006.262319