Lusiwe Maduna, Masengo Ilunga

Proceedings of the 17th International Multi-Conference on Society, Cybernetics and Informatics: IMSCI 2023, pp. 62-66 (2023); https://doi.org/10.54808/IMSCI2023.01.62

Lusiwe Maduna
Department of Civil Engineering, University of South Africa, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa

Masengo Ilunga
Department of Civil Engineering, University of South Africa, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa

Cite this paper as:
Maduna, L., Ilunga, M. (2023). Assessing Knowledge Areas of Advanced Certificate in Engineering Technology Using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). In N. Callaos, J. Horne, B. Sánchez, M. Savoie (Eds.), Proceedings of the 17th International Multi-Conference on Society, Cybernetics and Informatics: IMSCI 2023, pp. 62-66. International Institute of Informatics and Cybernetics. https://doi.org/10.54808/IMSCI2023.01.62

Consistency among knowledge areas of the Advanced Certificate in Engineering (AdvCertEng) as proposed by the Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA) is evaluated using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) model. The certificate is part of the new programmes offered in universities of technology and comprehensive universities in South Africa. The AHP model compares the credit weight of each knowledge area with the existing weights in the programme as suggested by ECSA. The model has its foundations on pairwise comparisons of knowledge areas. The findings of the present study showed that an acceptable level of consistency in credit allocation among knowledge areas of AdvCertEng was achieved. AHP was shown to be a validation tool of the existing preference order of credits allocated to the different knowledge areas. Nonetheless, very small differences in credit weights between AHP and ECSA’s were noticed.