Abstract
The Engineering Management degree at master’s
level has been taught at a South African higher education
institution for more than 20 years. The student enrollment
numbers have seen significant growth over the last decade, with a
year-on-year growth varying from 20% to 39% each year. The
coursework master’s program consists of a number of lectured
modules and a research component which accounts for fifty
percent of the program. The students are very successful in
completing the lectured modules, but they are less successful in
completing the research component. The main problem is that
students complete the lectured component within the required
time, but when they start doing the research component they
either take longer than the allocated time or they never reach
completion...