Four main concepts of quality engineering--Acceptance, Sampling, Real Time Quality Control, and the Taguchi method for product quality improvement--are introduced as applications of key concepts in probability and statistics. Principles of probability and statistics including events, Bayes theorem, randoms variables, functions of random variables, sampling distributions, and parameter estimation are also covered. May not be taken for credit in addition to ENG EK 500 or CAS MA 381. (Formerly ENG MN 308)