Requirements

Many of the courses specifies a wide range of prerequisites.

ASQ Certification Requirements

Experience and/or Education

• CQE You must have eight or more years of on-the-job experience in one or more of the areas of the Certified Quality Engineer Body of Knowledge. At least three years of this experience must be in a decision-making technical, professional, or management position.
  If you are now or were previously certified by ASQ as a Quality Auditor or a Reliability Engineer, experience
  used to qualify for certification in those field applies to certification as a Quality Engineer.

• CQA You must have eight years of on-the-job experience in one or more of the areas of the Certified Quality Auditor Body of Knowledge.

  At least three years of this experience must  be in a professional, decision-making technical, or management position.

• Applicable experience in quality auditing, as defined in ANSI/ASQ Standard Q1, “Generic Guidelines for Auditing Quality Systems” satisfies this requirement. In addition, if you are now or were previously certified by ASQ as a Quality Engineer or a Reliability Engineer, experience used to qualify for certification in those fields applies to certification
  as a Quality Auditor.

• CQE & CQAIf you have completed a degree* from an accredited college, university, or technical school, part of the eight year experience requirement will be waived, as follows (only one of these waivers may be claimed)If you have a certificate from a technical or trade school, one year will be waived.
• Associate degree – two years waived
• Bachelor’s degree – four years waived Master’s or doctorate – five years waived*
• Degrees/diplomas from foreign educational institutions must be equivalent to degrees from U.S.A. educational institutions.

Proof of equivalency must be submitted with application.

CMI Certification Requirments