UNISA Short Course in Industrial Engineering
University of South Africa Short Course in Industrial Engineering
To support students with existing engineering qualifications to bridge over to Industrial Engineering
Students with an existing national diploma in any engineering discipline (except industrial engineering) who wants to register for the BTech in Industrial Engineering have to complete this programme first to assist them to reskill
A National Diploma in Engineering: Mechanical, Civil, Electrical or Chemical or equivalent.
One year
English
January to 15 February
Mixed mode: printed media, computer based training
Note:
Formative assessment and examination admission will comply with UNISA’s formative assessment rules and policies
Formative assessment:
Assignments
Summative assessment:
A three-hour examination for every module
- Operation strategy and competitiveness
- Financial accounting (balance sheet, income statement, depreciation, cash flow)
- Financial ratio analysis
- Cost accounting (fixed costs, variable costs, overhead costs, basic calculations)
- Product design and process analysis, selection and design in manufacturing and service industries
- Total quality management
- Waiting line management
- Process capability and statistical quality control
- Fundamentals of statistics
- Control charts for variables and attributes
- Fundamentals of probability
- Quality costs
- OC curves
- Job design and work measurement
- Facility layout
- Facility location
- Strategic chain strategy
- Lean production
- Forecasting
- Basic ergonomics
- Project planning and control
- Life cycle of project management
- Functions of project management
- Financial analysis of project.
- Project financing and communications
- Project implementation
- Project risk management
- Supply chain strategy
- Demand management
- Inventory control
- Sales and operations planning
- Material requirements planning
- Operations scheduling
- Operations consulting and reengineering
- Synchronous manufacturing and theory of constraints
- Business plan
Mr N Ndou
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Office: Block C 5-034, UNISA Florida Campus
Tel: 011 471 2560
Fax: 011 471 2142
E-mail: nndou@unisa.ac.za
Mr S Chikumba / Ms N Nkambule
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Office C-536, UNISA Florida Campus
Tel: 011 471 2963
Fax: 011 471 2142
E-mail: nkambule@unisa.ac.za / chikus@unisa.ac.za
