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Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology
School of Engineering
Department of Engineering and Technology Management

Pretorius, L

MSc (Mathematics) DIng (Pret) - Professor

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Telephone number: 012 4204148
Fax number: 012 3625307
E-mail address: leon.pretorius@up.ac.za

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Research articles in refereed specialist journals:

Khota IA, Pretorius L: 2008. Embedded innovation - Strategic management incubators for knowledge hegemony. South African Journal of Industrial Engineering/ Suid-Afrikaanse Tydskrif vir Bedryfsingenieurswese, 19 (1) / May, pp 105-118, Full Text

Twala VG, Auf der Hyde T, Bredell PJ, Pretorius L: 2008. Developing a framework for evaluating spent nuclear fuel management options for South Africa. South African Journal of Industrial Engineering/ Suid-Afrikaanse Tydskrif vir Bedryfsingenieurswese, 19 (2) / Nov, pp 41-60, Full Text

Papers in refereed, published conference proceedings:

Ramdass K, Pretorius L: 2008. Comparative assessment of process improvement methodologies: A case study in the South African clothing industry. In 2008 IEEE International Engineering Management Conference, IEEE, pp 305-310.

de Villiers TJ, Pretorius L: 2008. Outsourcing detail design work to low cost centres for engineering and construction projects. In 2008 IEEE International Engineering Management Conference, IEEE, p. CD.

Jiang DD, Pretorius L: 2008. A conceptual model to link contraint factors in the project mangagement process on international projects. In 22nd IPMA World Congress: Project Management to Run, Animp Servizi, p. CD.

Kruger S, Pretorius L: 2008. Comparisons of the indoor climate in multi-span and detached greenhouses with various ventilator configurations. In ASME 2008 Intenational Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE08), The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), p. CD.

Maree CJ, Pretorius L, van der Merwe P: 2008. Areas for improvement on South African incubators focussed on high technology business ventures. In IAMOT 2008 Proceedings of 17th International Conference on Management of Technology, IAMOT and BUiD, p. CD.

Winzker DH, Pretorius L: 2008. Managing engineering and technology in a knowledge economy. In IAMOT 2008 Proceedings of 17th International Conference on Management of Technology, IAMOT and BUiD, p. CD.

Winzker DH, Pretorius L: 2008. The leverage effect of holistic engineering and technology management to sustain a developing economy. In Proceedings of PICMET '08, IEEE and Custom Publishing, pp 197-203.

Dirker HG, Pretorius L, Pretorius JHC: 2008. Managing distribution channels in the control and instrumentation product market with multi-faceted product lines. In Proceedings of PICMET '08, IEEE and Custom Publishing, pp 2323-2336.

Ramdass K, Pretorius L: 2008. The clothing industry for growth in South Africa. In Proceedings of PICMET '08, IEEE and Custom Publishing, pp 166-173.

Malan A, Pretorius L, Pretorius JHC: 2008. Managing the implementation of banking systems for repeatable success. In Proceedings of PICMET '08, IEEE and Custom Publishing, pp 2366-2375.

Khota IA, Pretorius L: 2008. Intellectual property scorecard: Strategically capitalising on value created by innovation R&D. In Proceedings of PICMET '08, IEEE and Custom Publishing, pp 584-592.

Kruger SJ, Pretorius L: 2008. Comparison of indoor climate in detached and multi-span greenhouses. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics & Thermodynamics HEFAT 2008, HEFAT, p. CD.

Ramdass K, Pretorius L: 2008. The role of ergonomics towards performance improvement. In Proceedings of the Third World Conference on Production and Operations Management - POM Tokyo 2008, Japanese Operations Management and Strategy Association, pp 302-313.

Ramdass K, Pretorius L: 2008. The application of ergonomics research principles for workstation enhancement of apparel machinists. In Proceedings of the Third World Conference on Production and Operations Management - POM Tokyo 2008, Japanese Operations Management and Strategy Association, pp 286-301.

Pretorius L, Benade SJ, Kruger S: 2008. Technology forecasting: The case of computational fluid dynamics (CFD). In The 4th IEEE International Conference on Management of Innovation & Technology, IEEE, pp 7-11.

Dirker HG, Pretorius L, Pretorius JHC: 2008. A systems thinking approach to manage distribution channels in the control and instrumentation product market with multi-faceted product lines. In The 4th IEEE International Conference on Management of Innovation & Technology, IEEE, pp 1389-1394.

Li CH, Pretorius L: 2008. Systems engineering based model for risk assessment: A case study. In The IEEE International Conference of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, IEEE, pp 1335-1340.

 

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