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What you'll be equipped to accomplish
Certified Six Sigma Black Belts directly impact an organization's bottom line. A Six Sigma Black Belt Certificate from UH demonstrates to an employer that you are trained in advanced problem solving skills and the statistical tools needed to effectively lead process improvement. Improve team leadership skills, gain an advanced understanding of team dynamics, and assign team member roles and responsibilities with a Six Sigma Black Belt.
Requirements
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Your Green Belt Certification
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A laptop for computer-based classroom exercises
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University of Houston Six Sigma Black Belt
Earn your Black Belt in under two months!
Our program includes a total of 40 hours of online modules and project work, coupled with 7 days of classroom learning. We leverage a combination of techniques including online resources, applied exercises, and real world case studies to enhance your learning experience. During this program, you'll even get to work on an independent project to improve a process within your organization.
Blended learning provides an ideal combination of in-class and online learning. You'll study the sophisticated formulas and concepts used by Black Belt's at your own speed in self-paced modules. Then, you'll join other students in class to practice and apply what you've learned.
Program Structure
The Six Sigma Black Belt program is an in-depth, interactive learning experience, offering a blended learning format to support the educational and scheduling needs of students. Our program is based on a case-study model that supports participants as they apply new skills to real-world examples.
- Week 1 & 2: 20 hours of self-paced online modules
- Week 3: 4 days of instructor led classroom training
- Week 4 & 5: 20 hours of self-paced online modules and project work
- Week 6: 3 days of instructor led classroom training
- Week 7 & 8: Completion of project work
Expectations of a Certified Six Sigma Black Belt:
- Implement Six Sigma philosophies and principles, including related systems and tools, and describe their impact on various organizational business processes
- Recognize organization roadblocks and use change management techniques to manage organizational change
- Define benchmarking and utilize various financial and other business performance measures
- Identify customer requirements and describe the impact that Six Sigma projects can have on various types of customers
- Demonstrate fundamental understanding of the components and techniques used in managing teams, including time management, planning and decision-making tools, team formation, and performance evaluation and reward
- Demonstrate an understanding of the elements of a project charter and use various tools to track project progress
- Demonstrate basic understanding of data collection techniques, process elements, and process analysis tools
- Analyze the results of correlation and regression analyses
- Interpret multi-variable study results and interpret attributed data to find sources of variation
- Perform hypothesis testing and analyze their results
- Identify and interpret the 7 classic wastes
- Plan design of experiments and analyze their results
- Demonstrate a fundamental understanding of an improved process implementation and how to analyze and interpret risk studies
- Develop control plans and use various tools to maintain and sustain improvements
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