Abstract

CHIKASHA, P.N.; RAMDASS, K.; MOKGOHLOA, K.  and  MALADZHI, R.W.. Aligning industrial engineering education with industry through atomic curriculum manipulation. S. Afr. J. Ind. Eng. [online]. 2020, vol.31, n.4, pp.92-103. ISSN 2224-7890.  http://dx.doi.org/10.7166/31-4-2393.

Curriculum is the primary factor that defines the competence and skill level of graduate industrial engineers as these professionals leave university and enter a dynamic industry that is affected by multiple social, economic, environmental, and political issues. If the curriculum is not adaptive, the quality of their education is compromised. This work proposes a rigid-skeleton flexible-body approach in which the architecture of the industrial engineering curriculum is rigid but has the flexibility, at a holistic level, to manipulate micro-components according to the needs of the industry. This work therefore examines the potential for atomic-type curriculum manipulation rather than molecular-type manipulation.

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