The aim of the course is to provide a comprehensive view of quality and quality assurance including basic orientation in related legislation and valid ISO standards. Students will be acquainted with the set of ISO 9000 stadards. Especial attention will be paid to the selected requirements of the ISO 9001 standard: quality planing in the pre-production phase, measuring of stisfaction of external customers, audit ets. Students will be also briefly introduced to other approaches to quality management systems: TQM, Six-sigma and Kaizen. Students are also acquainted with the relationship between quality and the environment. The issue of environmental management system and occupational health and safety management system is included. Emphasis is placed on the requirement for continuous improvement of quality.