The development of mining engineering technologists for the Southern African mining industry through contact offering and alignment with polytechnic* objectives
- Dougall, A.W., Rupprecht, S.M.
- Authors: Dougall, A.W. , Rupprecht, S.M.
- Date: 2015
- Subjects: Educational pathways , HEQSF , PQM
- Language: English
- Type: Conference proceedings
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/85696 , uj:19380 , Citation: Dougall, A.W. & Rupprecht, S.M. 2015. The development of mining engineering technologists for the Southern African mining industry through contact offering and alignment with polytechnic* objectives.
- Description: Abstract: The Higher Education offerings dealing with the development of technicians and technologists are in a state of flux. Change is immanent and by 2017 the current Technician / Technologist qualification dispensation will evolve to the Bachelor of Engineering Technology and Bachelor of Engineering Technology Honours programmes. Professional Engineering development will take place at Science programme based institutions such as the traditional universities and also at the institution deemed to be a comprehensive university in the South African Higher Education arena. A comprehensive university may be seen as a mix between the University of Technology and the traditional academic programmes offered by traditional Universities. The University of Johannesburg mining department has the mission to instil competence and confidence in young mining technicians, technologists, engineers and managers. The current programmes consist of the three year National Diploma in Mining Engineering (339- 1) and the post diploma one year Bachelor of Technology in Mining Engineering (619-1). In reality the focus is and should be on developing Technologists. The paper looks at the qualifications mix of the UJ Mining Department and its required niche in the southern African mining environment and educational pathways in the next era commencing 2017. It takes a route different to the other three mining offerings in South Africa and focuses on largely attaining professional registration of the technologist with the Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA) and if it continues, the Government Certificate of Competency. Research and course work combination offerings or purely research offerings become more important to UJ Mining and these will be accommodated in the new dispensation through Honours, M Phil and D Phil post graduate offerings, in mining operations and its sub disciplines of rock engineering, ventilation, risk management, and mine planning in the areas of metalliferous, coal and surface mining including quarrying specialisations. The change could well deliver desired effectiveness and efficiency and not just be a function of political objectives.
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- Authors: Dougall, A.W. , Rupprecht, S.M.
- Date: 2015
- Subjects: Educational pathways , HEQSF , PQM
- Language: English
- Type: Conference proceedings
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/85696 , uj:19380 , Citation: Dougall, A.W. & Rupprecht, S.M. 2015. The development of mining engineering technologists for the Southern African mining industry through contact offering and alignment with polytechnic* objectives.
- Description: Abstract: The Higher Education offerings dealing with the development of technicians and technologists are in a state of flux. Change is immanent and by 2017 the current Technician / Technologist qualification dispensation will evolve to the Bachelor of Engineering Technology and Bachelor of Engineering Technology Honours programmes. Professional Engineering development will take place at Science programme based institutions such as the traditional universities and also at the institution deemed to be a comprehensive university in the South African Higher Education arena. A comprehensive university may be seen as a mix between the University of Technology and the traditional academic programmes offered by traditional Universities. The University of Johannesburg mining department has the mission to instil competence and confidence in young mining technicians, technologists, engineers and managers. The current programmes consist of the three year National Diploma in Mining Engineering (339- 1) and the post diploma one year Bachelor of Technology in Mining Engineering (619-1). In reality the focus is and should be on developing Technologists. The paper looks at the qualifications mix of the UJ Mining Department and its required niche in the southern African mining environment and educational pathways in the next era commencing 2017. It takes a route different to the other three mining offerings in South Africa and focuses on largely attaining professional registration of the technologist with the Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA) and if it continues, the Government Certificate of Competency. Research and course work combination offerings or purely research offerings become more important to UJ Mining and these will be accommodated in the new dispensation through Honours, M Phil and D Phil post graduate offerings, in mining operations and its sub disciplines of rock engineering, ventilation, risk management, and mine planning in the areas of metalliferous, coal and surface mining including quarrying specialisations. The change could well deliver desired effectiveness and efficiency and not just be a function of political objectives.
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Identification of key performance areas and indicators in the southern African underground coal mining delivery environment
- Authors: Dougall, A.W.
- Date: 2015
- Subjects: Morale , Key performance areas , Key performance indicators
- Language: English
- Type: Conference proceedings
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/85718 , uj:19381 , Citation: Dougall, A.W. 2015. Identification of key performance areas and indicators in the southern African underground coal mining delivery environment.
- Description: Abstract: The global resources and commodities market has become highly competitive. While southern Africa’s abundance of minerals resources is still unrivalled, the region has lost its dominance in terms of production. The sustainability of southern Africa’s mining industry is increasingly becoming dependent on its ability to manage the performance of its operations well. A valuable tool for monitoring and managing performance is the use of key performance areas (KPAs) – which are those areas of performance that are reflected explicitly or implicitly in the vision and strategies of an organization and reflect its critical success factors. This paper reviews the KPAs in the southern African mining delivery environment. The KPAs discussed in this paper have been identified by comparing KPAs of several mining houses engaged in mining operations in southern Africa and extracting those that are common to most of them. The authors support the view that each organization should develop KPAs to specifically fit its needs, the study reveals that five KPAs – safety and health, costs, product quality, morale and delivery should form a default list that covers the key areas that any organization should consider when choosing KPAs. KPAs exist for performance management. Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) exist for performance measurement. KPIs are those controllable areas of KPAs that can be measured and here various KPIs require control namely: Cutting Time, Away Time, Downtime of various categories, Travelling Time and others that have been identified internationally.
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- Authors: Dougall, A.W.
- Date: 2015
- Subjects: Morale , Key performance areas , Key performance indicators
- Language: English
- Type: Conference proceedings
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/85718 , uj:19381 , Citation: Dougall, A.W. 2015. Identification of key performance areas and indicators in the southern African underground coal mining delivery environment.
- Description: Abstract: The global resources and commodities market has become highly competitive. While southern Africa’s abundance of minerals resources is still unrivalled, the region has lost its dominance in terms of production. The sustainability of southern Africa’s mining industry is increasingly becoming dependent on its ability to manage the performance of its operations well. A valuable tool for monitoring and managing performance is the use of key performance areas (KPAs) – which are those areas of performance that are reflected explicitly or implicitly in the vision and strategies of an organization and reflect its critical success factors. This paper reviews the KPAs in the southern African mining delivery environment. The KPAs discussed in this paper have been identified by comparing KPAs of several mining houses engaged in mining operations in southern Africa and extracting those that are common to most of them. The authors support the view that each organization should develop KPAs to specifically fit its needs, the study reveals that five KPAs – safety and health, costs, product quality, morale and delivery should form a default list that covers the key areas that any organization should consider when choosing KPAs. KPAs exist for performance management. Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) exist for performance measurement. KPIs are those controllable areas of KPAs that can be measured and here various KPIs require control namely: Cutting Time, Away Time, Downtime of various categories, Travelling Time and others that have been identified internationally.
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