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A quality management approach to civil engineering
| dc.creator | Baber, Thomas James | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-06-07T22:54:49Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-06-07T22:54:49Z | |
| dc.date.created | 1999 | |
| dc.date.issued | 1999 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1999-THESIS-B33 | |
| dc.description | Due to the character of the original source materials and the nature of batch digitization, quality control issues may be present in this document. Please report any quality issues you encounter to digital@library.tamu.edu, referencing the URI of the item. | en |
| dc.description | Includes bibliographical references (leaves 56-57). | en |
| dc.description | Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics. | en |
| dc.description.abstract | A methodology is presented for basing quality improvement decisions in civil engineering design firms upon historical data, statistical methods, and hydrologic modeling techniques. Statistical Process Control (SPC) is a quality management tool that has been used, with great success, in the manufacturing industry for nearly 50 years. The hydrologic techniques used were created by the Soil Conservation Service to generate synthetic storm hydrography. Historical data from an East Texas civil engineering firm are the basis for the research used to determine, chart, and analyze the current system used in the service provided to one of the company's largest clients. The result is the application of a quantifiable method for improving the quality of this service. | en |
| dc.format.medium | electronic | en |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | Texas A&M University | |
| dc.rights | This thesis was part of a retrospective digitization project authorized by the Texas A&M University Libraries in 2008. Copyright remains vested with the author(s). It is the user's responsibility to secure permission from the copyright holder(s) for re-use of the work beyond the provision of Fair Use. | en |
| dc.subject | civil engineering. | en |
| dc.subject | Major civil engineering. | en |
| dc.title | A quality management approach to civil engineering | en |
| dc.type | Thesis | en |
| thesis.degree.discipline | civil engineering | en |
| thesis.degree.name | M.S. | en |
| thesis.degree.level | Masters | en |
| dc.type.genre | thesis | en |
| dc.type.material | text | en |
| dc.format.digitalOrigin | reformatted digital | en |
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