Postgraduate Programmes: The application processes for the programmes below differ. Follow the links below for more information on each application process.
Research Programmes
Research Masters in Industrial Engineering
Industrial Engineering is a discipline of engineering dealing with the optimisation of complex processes or systems. It is concerned with the development, improvement, implementation, and evaluation of integrated systems of people, money, knowledge, information, equipment, energy, materials, analysis and synthesis, as well as the mathematical, physical and social sciences together with the principles and methods of engineering design to specify, predict, and evaluate the results to be obtained from such systems or processes.
Manager research programme: Melinda Rust @ mrust@sun.ac.za
Research Masters in Engineering Management
Engineering management often leads to a career that brings together the technological problem-solving abilities of engineering and the organizational, administrative, and planning abilities of management in order to oversee complex systems from conception to completion. To illustrate this , technology management , as a sub-set of engineering management, is a specialised professional practice that captures technology-based innovation opportunities. It guides technological process, asses the potential of individual technologies and uses this potential to the benefit of the business, society and the environment.
Manager research programme: Melinda Rust @ mrust@sun.ac.za
PhD Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management programmes
Industrial Engineering offerings includes PhD studies in Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management.
The research programmes comprise 240 project-work credits in the form of a research dissertation.
Minimum residency of 2 years.
Manager PhD programme: Mpho Molapo – mmolapo@sun.ac.za
Structured Programmes
Masters Industrial Engineering (structured) / Postgraduate Diploma in Industrial Engineering
Focus: Data Sciences
Data Science focuses on the development of innovative machine learning and optimisation techniques to produce novel, efficient and robust data science technologies, for use in industrial engineering and engineering management applications.
Data science techniques can be used on extremely large data sets to computationally reveal patterns, trends and associations, especially relating to human behavior and interactions.
Manager structured DS programmes: Martina Frei @ mfrei@sun.ac.za
Masters Industrial Engineering (structured)
Focus: Logistics and Supply Chain Systems
There is a need for logistics and supply chain skills development in the African economy. These aspects are required as an enabler to establish sustained economic development and job creation via national trade growth, in our export markets.
The logistics and supply chain systems programme focuses on enabling students to develop forward-thinking strategies to enhance the global competitiveness of supply chains, making significant contributions to logistical frameworks and ensuring these systems are resilient and future ready.
Manager structured programmes: Prof Goedhals-Gerber – leila@sun.ac.za
Masters Engineering Management (structured)
The Masters Degree in Engineering Management (MEM) is a structured, module-based hybrid online masters degree in engineering management, specifically designed to prepare early to mid-career engineers of all disciplines and scientist to excel in their current roles, but also to build meaning full carriers that will empower them to shape the future.
The curriculum is future-focused, innovative, industry-relevantly and designed to suite the profile of the part-time student, wherever in the world the student may be. The MEM programme is hosted in the Department of Industrial Engineering.
Manager structured MEM programme: Natalia Duiker @ mastersengm@sun.ac.za
