UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA
Presentation to the Portfolio Committee
for Science and Technology
Research and Innovation
Management Programme
13 February 2007
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Graduate School of Technology Management
Department of Engineering and Technology Management
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The Graduate School of Technology Management was established as a
fourth school in the Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and
Information Technology with effect from 1 January 2007. The Department
of Engineering and Technology Management, which was established in
1987 and is the only department of its kind in South Africa, resides within
this School.
The Department of Engineering and Technology Management is a
postgraduate department offering internationally recognised development
programmes. These programmes are offered at honours, masters, and
doctoral level and addresses different needs in the field of Technology
and Innovation Management, Project Management, Engineering
Management, Life Cycle Management and Asset & Maintenance
Management
The objective is to provide management education for the practicing
engineer and technologist, irrespective of undergraduate discipline.
Whereas the traditional engineering disciplines focus mainly on
technology itself, this department is dedicated to the utilisation of
technology for the creation of wealth at the enterprise and national level.
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Academic Offerings (Degree programmes)
The Department offers the following degrees:
• Honours in Technology Management (MOT)
• Masters in Technology Management (MTM)
• Masters in Engineering Management (MEM)
• Masters in Project Management (MPM)
• PhD
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Academic Offerings (Degree programmes)
Honours in Technology Management (MOT)
Admission requirement:
Appropriate 3 year Bachelors degree at a
recognised University. Applicants need to apply
and register for the formal programme.
Modules
The honours' degree programme consists of
eight courses that may be completed in one year
of study (all eight courses in one year) or two
years’ study (four courses per year).
Mode of presentation
Each module requires two and a half consecutive
days of full-time attendance in Pretoria.
The modules are all telematic supported
Assessment
Individual/group assignments
Final examination
Costs
R15 360.00 incl. course material, notes and
meals.
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Academic Offerings (Degree programmes)
Masters in Technology Management (MTM)
Admission requirement:
Honours in Technology Management (MOT)
Modules
The masters' degree programme consists of four
courses as well as a research project.
Mode of presentation
Each module requires two and a half consecutive
days of full-time attendance in Pretoria.
The modules are all telematic supported.
Assessment
Individual/group assignments
Final examination
Costs
R26 880.00 incl. all textbooks, course material,
notes and meals.
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Degree programmes - Articulation model
Batchelor’s
degree
Honours in Technology
Management (MOT)
Short Course in Research and
Innovation Management
Masters in Technology
Management (MTM)
Students that completed the one-week short
course in Research and Innovation Management
will be exempted from class attendance for parts
of some module/s (but will be required to study the
prescribed reading, complete the assignments and
write the examinations).
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Academic Offerings (Certificate programmes)
The Department offers the following certificate courses in collaboration with
Continuing Education at the University of Pretoria (CE at UP):
• Programme in Project Management (PPM)
• Advanced Programme in Project Management (APPM)
• Programme in Asset and Maintenance Management (PAM)
• Principles of Maintenance Management
• Programme in Engineering Management (PEM)
• Programme in Systems Engineering
• Programme in Technology and Innovation Management
New
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Certificate Programme in Technology and Innovation
Management
Admission requirement:
Senior certificate or equivalent prior learning.
Duration:
1 year
Mode of presentation:
Four blocks of 5 consecutive days of full-time
attendance at Parliamentary precincts. Each
module requires two and a half consecutive
days each.
Assessment:
Assignments
Costs for 2007:
To be negotiated - price will depend on the
number of students.
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Certificate Programme in Technology and Innovation
Management – Articulation model
Senior
certificate
or equivalent
Certificate Programme in Technology and
Innovation Management
Short Course in Research and
Innovation Management
Students that completed the one-week short course
in Research and Innovation Management will be
exempted from class attendance for parts of some
module/s (but will be required to study the
prescribed reading and complete the assignments).
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Certificate Programme in Technology and Innovation
Management
Proposed modules
(Eight required)
• Technology and Innovation Management
• Decision Analysis
• Project Management
• Technological Entrepreneurship
• Human Resource Management
• Financial Management
• Technology Commercialisation
• Strategic Management
• Knowledge Management
• Technology and Society
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Certificate Programme in Technology and Innovation
Management – Proposed modules
Technology and Innovation Management. Technology and technological
innovation will increasingly become the basis of competition in many industries
and a key component in the quest for competitiveness. The importance of
technological considerations underlying major business decisions will become
more prominent. The management of technology and technological innovation
are essential components of the corporate management and strategy portfolio
of a company.
Decision Analysis. Have you ever had a difficult decision to make? If so, did
you wish that there was a straightforward way in keeping the different issues
clear? Did you eventually end up making the decision based on intuition?
Individuals run into difficult decisions all the time, and these difficult decisions
are hard because of many unknowns and uncertainties. The course in Decision
Analysis will help the decision maker to think about the specific problem at
hand, including the overall structure of the problem as well as his or her
preferences and beliefs. The course provides an overall paradigm and a set of
tools with which a decision maker can construct and analyse a model of the
decision situation.
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Certificate Programme in Technology and Innovation
Management – Proposed modules
Project Management. Project management forms part and parcel of the work of
almost all engineers. It is also the fastest growing form of management
worldwide. This module has been designed to provide a sound introduction to
the basics of project management, including project risk management. It
furthermore addresses project scheduling at a more advanced level.
Technological Entrepreneurship. The course offers prospective students
exposure to innovation and entrepreneurship in the technological domain in
two ways; firstly it creates an understanding of the theory, and, secondly, it
develops some practical entrepreneurial and small business management skills
such as the compilation of a sound business plan. Learners will experience that
entrepreneurship, like innovation, is a discipline in its own right with its own
systematic, purposeful and simple rules that can be learned and mastered
through hard work. Entrepreneurs are made, not born - a must for prospective
self-employers!
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Certificate Programme in Technology and Innovation
Management – Proposed modules
Financial Management. The nature of and interaction between different financial
statements are investigated, as well as their role in the creation of shareholder
wealth. Although maximizing shareholder wealth is the basic general
cornerstone of management, recent developments point out that nonquantitative factors are also important in the measurement of company
performance.
Human Resource Management. This module integrates the component of
effective management of people into the equation for business profitability.
Topics like HR processes, motivation of people, diversity, individual and team
performance labour relations and stress management are themes covered to
enhance understanding of people management and to lay a foundation for
further management training and development.
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Certificate Programme in Technology and Innovation
Management – Proposed modules
Strategic Management. The objective with this module is to stimulate strategic
thinking and the development of strategic decision making skills amongst
students in the field of strategic management in an engineering environment. In
this module the following topics are addressed: Concepts and Practice of
Strategy, The Process of Strategic Management, Formulation of Strategy and
the Implementation of Strategy.
Technology Commercialisation. The survival of modern companies increasingly
depends on the development and successful commercialisation of new
products and services. The module is designed to address the principles
embedded in the process of identifying, transferring and commercialising
inventions and knowledge within the context of national systems of innovation.
The intention is to integrate the functional elements of innovation management
with emphasis on the entrepreneurial process of commercialising new
methods, practices, processes, products, services, systems and technology
towards the generation of economic growth, wealth and prosperity.
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Certificate Programme in Technology and Innovation
Management – Proposed modules
Knowledge Management. Overview of information and knowledge management;
Information and knowledge audit; Business strategy and the development of a
knowledge management strategy; Knowledge management governance;
Corporate Information Policy; Records management and electronic document
management systems; Knowledge representation of information resources;
Information organization for knowledge management; Intranet: theoretical
background and practical project; Knowledge processes; Change management
in a knowledge-based organization.
Technology and Society (Provisional – to be developed)
• Technology and service delivery
• Technology and poverty alleviation
• Technology and skills development
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Certificate Programme in Technology and Innovation
Management
Accreditation
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The South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA) does not accredit
certificate programmes of Public Higher Institutions.
Certificate programmes are rated according to level (difficulty) and
credits (quantity of work).
– The Certificate Programme in Technology and Innovation
Management will be pitched at SAQA’s NQF Level 5/6:
“Undergraduate certificates / first degree”*.
– This certificate will carry 80 credits (First degree: 360 credits).
The Certificate holder could receive some credit when doing certain
certificate programmes offered by the University of Pretoria and
other Higher Education Institutions depending on their policy.
* The Development of Level Descriptors for the NQF, SAQA, Government Gazette,
Vol. 424, No. 21679, 24 October 2000
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Questions?
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