Course Description: Design of experiments (DOE) is a structured approach to efficiently characterize, improve and optimize a process by systematically changing several factors (e.g. temperature and pressure) simultaneously and analyzing the results. Designed experiments may be used during manufacturing or process development to: solve problems during a manufacturing crisis, optimize process performance to improve yield, reduce experimental cost, time and resources, identify the key factors with greatest impact on process performance, manufacture products that consistently meet specifications and are robust to variability (Taguchi), analyze results easily and unambiguously, and efficiently bring new manufacturing equipment on line.