Engineering

The Committee believes that this loose, and bottom-up approach partly explains
high staff motivation and the Faculty success. Even so, the Committee recommends
that the Faculty consider the value of formal protocols, underlying principles,
approaches, and mechanisms. These are necessary if the Faculty is to function as a
coherent unit.
The Faculty does provide guidance to departments and groups, and it is willing to
reduce support or to make cuts where no cooperation takes place. Technology
Transformation is a case in point. The Faculty also provides guiding direction by
acknowledging successful individuals with greater funding and resources.
The Committee recommends developing formal mechanisms on several issues:
developing Faculty strategy, managing diversity, managing research integrity,
setting output targets, collaboration between departments, and developing a
recruiting policy, and developing feedback mechanisms for PhD candidates.
Further discussion on these topics appears later in this report.
2.2 QUALITY
Table 1 shows the demonstrable research output of the Faculty of Industrial
Design Engineering.
2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
Refereed articles 80 93 108 118 94 102
Non-refereed articles 4 0 2 4 2 1
Academic books 8 6 6 3 7 3
Academic book chapters 18 52 28 20 27 31
PhD theses 11 10 11 19 10 10
Refereed conference papers 193 197 250 159 180 162
Non-refereed conference papers 1 0 2 22 19 31
Professional publications 41 26 26 28 7 19
Other research output, including
editorial roles for books and journals 19 24 24 29 16 30
TOTAL 375 408 457 402 362 389
Table 1: Total output Faculty IDE
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