Professor - Department of Engineering and Technology Management at University of Pretoria/Universiteit van Pretoria

RESPONSIBILITIES:

It will be expected of the successful candidates to:

• Teach postgraduate modules on the programme's focus areas of the GSTM;
• Supervise postgraduate Master’s and Doctoral students;
• Consistently publish research articles in the foremost internationally accredited journals;
• Conduct research in a highly productive manner;
• Raise and manage additional funding from national and international funding agencies and industry to support the activities of the relevant GSTM research areas;
• Expand existing research programmes or initiate new research programmes;
• Perform assigned departmental duties (e.g. of an administrative nature).

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

Professor

• A BScEng or BEng degree; 
• A MEng degree;
• A relevant PhD degree that follows on from the previous qualification;
• Industry experience, especially within the field of Engineering Management
• Expertise and research experience in one or more of the specialist areas of the Engineering Management research groups in the Department;
• A well-established and internationally recognised record of research supported by publications in high-quality peer-reviewed journals;
• At least eight years’ experience at a tertiary academic institution or industry-related experience; 
• A record of previous undergraduate and/or postgraduate teaching experience, including graduation of Doctoral students;

ADDED ADVANTAGES AND PREFERENCES:

• Demonstrated capability to teach core Systems Engineering content across the system life cycle, including systems principles and systems thinking. 
• Evidence of applied Systems Engineering process expertise, including need and requirements analysis, functional analysis, system architecting, and system integration. 
• Familiarity with contemporary Systems Engineering topics, including sociotechnical systems, human system integration, systems of systems engineering, enterprise system engineering, artificial intelligence, digitalisation, sustainability, services engineering and enterprise architecture. 
• Evidence of teaching excellence in large postgraduate classes;
• Preference will be given to candidates who have teaching and research expertise that complement the Department’s research focus area;
• Related industry work or consulting experience;
• Candidates registered or registerable as a Professional Engineer with ECSA.
• NRF rating.