Postgraduate Certificate in Professional Development

Postgraduate Certificate
in Professional
Development (Electronics and ICT)

To progress in your career and operate successfully in the workplace, you need to keep up to date in your area of technical expertise and learn relevant business skills. Massey University the University of Canterbury, the University of Waikato and AUT, are collaborating to offer a Postgraduate Certificate designed to meet those needs. It may be studied over a two-year period, while you continue to work.

The Postgraduate Certificate will also contribute to the professional development requirements of:
• engineers seeking to apply for Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng) status or who have attained CPEng
• members of the New Zealand Computer Society

A consortium of industry representatives, industry associations, professional bodies and tertiary institutions has established the Postgraduate Certificate to lift capability in the ICT sector. Development has been funded by the Tertiary Education Commission because the programme has the potential to contribute significantly to New Zealand’s economic growth.

Goals of the Postgraduate Certificate

The Postgraduate Certificate has been designed to meet the needs of graduates and those with equivalent work experience in the ICT sector.

The high level outcomes of the qualification are to:
1. incorporate professional practice rather than focus only on knowledge and skill transfer
2. encourage critiquing of current professional practice through reflection on workplace practice
3. enable recent entrants to the workplace to better realise their potential and to further develop their creative abilities
4. develop graduates who have the ability to synthesise their knowledge and skills in the workplace to exercise a higher level of professional judgement
5. encourage ethical decision making and practice
6. focus on graduates applying skills learnt in the workplace through an appropriate change in their work organisation

What some of last year’s students have said:

“I have found the course definitely useful and stimulating. The lectures were well organised and executed.”

“I have thoroughly enjoyed the course and it was good to get to meet other people with similar backgrounds.

“I learned a considerable amount as a result of the project and gained a lot of satisfaction from that.”

“An early indication of my success might be that my project was reviewed by my manager and found to be a valued contribution and reference document to be used by our department and recommended for inclusion into our website for company-wide access.”

1. The Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand (IPENZ), Information Technology Association of New Zealand, New Zealand Software Association, New Zealand Computer Society, Telecom, EDS New Zealand, Endeavour Capital Ltd, The HiGrowth Project, ETITO and the New Zealand Council of Engineering Deans.