Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology
School of Engineering
Department of Engineering and Technology Management
Brent, AC
BEng (Stell) MSc (Chalmers) PhD(Pret) - Senior Lecturer
NRF Rating: Y1
Contact Details
Research Interests
Research Output
Contact Details:
Telephone number: 012 420 3929
Fax number: 012 362 5307
E-mail address: alan.brent@up.ac.za
Research Interests:
Life Cycle Engineering
Scope and structure of engineering management
Research Output:
Research articles in refereed specialist journals:
Labuschagne C, Brent AC: 2008. An industry perspective of the completeness and relvance of a social assessment framework for project and technology management in the manufacturing sector. Journal of Cleaner Production, 16 (3) / Feb, pp 253-262.
Lotz M, Brent AC: 2008. A review of carbon dioxide capture and sequestration and the Kyoto Protocol's clean development mechanism and prospects for Southern Africa. Journal of Energy in Southern Africa, 19 (1) / Feb, pp 13-24.
Zieleniewski M, Brent AC: 2008. Evaluating the costs and achievable benefits of extending technologies for uneconomical coal resources in South Africa: The case of underground coal gasification. Journal of Energy in Southern Africa, 19 (4) / Nov, pp 21-31.
Brent AC, Pretorius MW: 2008. Sustainable development: A conceptual framework for the technology management field of knowledge and a departure for further research. South African Journal of Industrial Engineering/ Suid-Afrikaanse Tydskrif vir Bedryfsingenieurswese, 19 (1) / May, pp 31-52, Full Text
Pandey AK, Brent AC: 2008. Application of technology management strategies and methods to identify and assess cleaner production options: Cases in the South African automotive industry. South African Journal of Industrial Engineering/ Suid-Afrikaanse Tydskrif vir Bedryfsingenieurswese, 19 (2) / Nov, pp 171-182, Full Text
Brent AC, Oelofse S, Godfrey L: 2008. Advancing the concepts of industrial ecology in South African institutions. South African Journal of Science, 104 (1/2) / Jan/Feb, pp 9-12, Full Text
Haffejee M, Brent AC: 2008. Evaluation of an integrated asset life-cycle management (ALCM) model and assessment of practices in the water utility sector. Water SA, 34 (2) / Apr, pp 285-290, Full Text
Suridge AKJ, Brent AC: 2008. Development of a water state index to assess the severity of impacts on and changes in natural water resources. Water Science and Technology, 58 (8), pp 1595-1600.
Papers in refereed, published conference proceedings:
Brent AC, Rogers DEC: 2008. Prioritising assessable sustainability performance indicators to manage renewable energy technologies in remote areas of Africa. In 10th World Renewable Energy Congress - WREC X, InControl Productions, Inc., pp 2743-2750.
Mabuza LOK, Brent AC, Mapako M: 2008. The management of renewable energy technologies in remote areas of Africa: Towards a framework for sustainable technology transfer. In IAMOT 2008 Proceedings of 17th International Conference on Management of Technology, IAMOT and BUiD, p. CD.
Barry ML, Steyn HdeV, Brent AC: 2008. Determining the most important factors for sustainable energy technology selection in Africa: Application of the Delphi technique. In IAMOT 2008 Proceedings of 17th International Conference on Management of Technology, IAMOT and BUiD, p. CD.
Brent AC, Pretorius MW: 2008. Sustainable development and technology management. In Management of Technology Innovation and Value Creation, (12), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd, pp 185-203.
Barry ML, Steyn HdeV, Brent AC: 2008. Determining the most important factors for sustainable energy technology selection in Africa: Application of the focus group technique. In Proceedings of PICMET '08, IEEE and Custom Publishing, pp 181-187.
Engelbrecht CC, Brent AC: 2008. Towards modeling macro influencing factors to address South African energy challenges: A focus on electricity demand and climate change. In Proceedings of PICMET '08, IEEE and Custom Publishing, pp 188-196.
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