BALANCING EMPLOYMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP REQUIREMENTS IN INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING EDUCATION

IF 0.5 4区工程技术 Q4 ENGINEERING, INDUSTRIAL

South African Journal of Industrial Engineering Pub Date : 2021-12-01 DOI:10.7166/32-4-2398

Piwai Chikasha, K. Ramdass, K. Mokgohloa

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Abstract

The purpose of higher learning is to equip students with the necessary skills and knowledge to support their respective professional careers. Ultimately, each career follows the employment or entrepreneurship path. The higher learning curriculum is generally more structured for the employment path, even though the global economy of the 21 century is fast becoming largely entrepreneurial. This work investigates the scope of entrepreneurship in the context of industrial engineering graduates. The aim is to develop a method to determine quantitatively the importance of focusing on entrepreneurial competence development in engineering students, and to propose a strategy to address the evident need for a greater emphasis on entrepreneurial competencies in graduate industrial engineers, based on market data. The approach is to analyse entrepreneurial projects as advertised by on-line freelance platforms, to determine the general characteristic skill-level requirements and perspectives on opportunity and remuneration. A strategy to enhance graduate entrepreneurial competency is also presented.

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工业工程教育中就业与创业需求的平衡

高等教育的目的是为学生提供必要的技能和知识，以支持他们各自的职业生涯。最终，每个职业都遵循就业或创业的道路。尽管21世纪的全球经济正在迅速成为企业家，但高等教育课程通常更适合就业道路。这项工作调查了工业工程毕业生创业的范围。其目的是开发一种方法，以定量确定重视工程专业学生创业能力发展的重要性，并根据市场数据提出一项战略，以解决研究生工业工程师更加重视创业能力的明显需求。该方法是分析在线自由职业者平台宣传的创业项目，以确定一般特征技能水平要求以及对机会和薪酬的看法。同时提出了提高研究生创业能力的策略。

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South African Journal of Industrial Engineering 工程技术-工程：工业

CiteScore

1.10

自引率

20.00%

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审稿时长

6 weeks

期刊介绍： The South African Journal of Industrial Engineering (SAJIE) publishes articles with the emphasis on research, development and application within the fields of Industrial Engineering and Engineering and Technology Management. In this way, it aims to contribute to the further development of these fields of study and to serve as a vehicle for the effective interchange of knowledge, ideas and experience between the research and training oriented institutions and the application oriented industry. Articles on practical applications, original research and meaningful new developments as well as state of the art surveys are encouraged.