Tan Kay Chuan

TAN Kay Chuan

Associate Professor

ASEAN University Network Quality Assurance Chief Assessor, Master Trainer, and Member, Technical Team

Department of Industrial Systems Engineering and Management

Education and Qualifications

  • PhD, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (Human Factors Engineering), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1990
  • MSc, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (Human Factors Engineering), University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1987
  • BSc, Psychology, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1984
  • Certified Professional Ergonomist, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 2011

Teaching Experience

  • Design for Six Sigma, Statistics, Quality Planning and Management, Service Innovation and Management, Project Management, Human Factors Engineering and Ergonomics, Engineering Professionalism

Research Experience

  • Six Sigma in higher learning institutions and service organizations
  • Quality assurance and management, and capacity building in higher education
  • Process methodology in quality awards and business excellence models
  • Quality Function Deployment, Kansei Engineering, and Kano Modelling
  • Service Engineering and Management

Assessor and Trainer Experience

  • Chief Quality Officer representative from the National University of Singapore to the ASEAN University Network Quality Assurance (AUN-QA) programme, 2007 – present
  • AUN-QA Council Member, February 2013 – January 2015
  • Key author in producing the AUN-QA Guide to Actual Quality Assessment at Programme Level, Versions 2.0, 3.0, and 4.0, June 2011 onwards
  • Expert trainer for ASEAN universities in Training Courses for Accomplishing Programme and Institutional Assessment, and Training Courses to be Assessors, 2010 – present
  • Trainer for university-tailored workshops to produce self-assessment reports of academic quality assurance
  • Carried out many programme and institutional assessments as lead, chief, and expert assessor