Professional Registration: Mathematical Science

PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATION: MATHEMATICAL SCIENCE

Work experience requirements

1. For registration purposes, work experience should be gained after the completion of the highest qualification.

After completing a B.Sc. Honours or recognised B.Tech. degree, three years work experience is required, two years after completing an appropriate and recognised M.Sc. degree, and one year after completing a Ph.D.

If an applicant was employed full-time, work experience gained while studying part-time for a recognised M.Tech./M.Sc. degree, may be taken into consideration.

2. A minimum of three years appropriate work experience in the natural sciences is required to register as a Professional Natural Scientist of which one year must be in a position of responsibility.

3. Applicants that are operating on a decision-making level should have been responsible for the drafting of guidelines in the decision-making process and responsible for the affects of their decisions.

4. Applicants employed in an advisory capacity should indicate to what extent peers or clients depend on their professional advice and expertise for which they could be kept responsible, or if they have been involved in research which has lead to publication(s) in established science journals.

5. Research projects, which have lead to publication(s) in established science publications or papers, should be listed.

Guidelines for work experience report (not a CV)

1. The work experience report should be clear about the nature, extent and variety of the natural scientific work, as well as the level of participation in projects. A list of projects completed is not sufficient.

(a) All work experience relevant to the field of practice for which is applied.

(b) Information such as name of company, position occupied, period of employment, and responsibilities of each position in chronological order.

(c) Evidence of the application of the basic scientific principles, methods and techniques, scientific observation, discussion and interpretation of data where a scientific opinion is delivered and findings explained in scientific terms.

(d) A description of any major research, project or design, and their appropriate values.

(e) List of articles published in recognised scientific journals.

(f) Papers presented at congresses/symposia, attendance of conferences and symposia

(g) Membership of scientific societies or other involvement in the profession.

2. Applicants that are operating on a decision-making level should have been responsible for the drafting of guidelines in the decision-making process and responsible for the affects of their decisions.

3. Applicants employed in an advisory capacity should indicate to what extent peers or clients depend on their professional advice and expertise for which they could be kept responsible, or if they have been involved in research which has lead to publication(s) in established science journals.

Scope of work involved

1. Supervising of Masters and Doctorate dissertations/theses; independent performing and/or supervising of research projects, developmental projects and consultation work in which the principals, methods and techniques of one or more of the different mathematics science fields were applied.

2. Kinds of work in connection with projects, undertakings or services relating to the mathematical sciences:

(a) Work which involve investigation, planning, design, evaluation, recommendation, consultation and projection of a degree or standard which, for their development and attainment, require the skilled use and application of the principles, methods and techniques of mathematics, mathematical statistics, applied mathematics, computer science, operations research, management science and meteorology.

(b) Work at a level where the knowledge for the skilled use and application of such principles, methods and techniques must be attained and developed by following the curriculum laid down form time to time for one or other of the examinations prescribed or recognised by the Council.

(c) Mathematical and deterministic as well as non-deterministic algorithmic modelling specifically where it applies to the quantification, analysis and optimization of complex systems as applicable in engineering designs, control systems, operational systems and weather services.

(d) The statistical design, analysis and interpretation of information and projections relating to the evaluation of pharmaceutical preparations, poisons, potentially hazardous preparations and substances, and demographic and other date of a like nature.

Lecturing

Lecturing, in a full-time or part-time capacity presented as occupational experience, should include research which is recorded and can lead to the publication in a acknowledged science publication, or is of a standard acceptable to the Council. In addition, the applicant should also have been responsible for lecturing on a postgraduate or equivalent level in one or more of the natural science fields and/or have given guidance with respect to Masters or Doctorate dissertations or research dissertations, which are acceptable to the Council.

Identification of work for the field of practice Mathematical Science

in terms of Section 27 of Act 27 of 2003

Mathematical Sciences

Applied Mathematician Biomathematician Computer Scientist

Data Base Annalist Engineering Mathematician Industrial Mathematicist

Mathematical Biometrician Mathematical Econometrician Mathematical Psychometrician

Mathematical Scientist Mathematical Statistician Mathematician

Meteorologist Numerical Mathematician Operational Researcher

Scientific Computer Programmer Systems Analysts

Certificated Natural Scientist – Mathematical Science

Statistics

· Regression analysis: Modulation of data in an equation to facilitate its usefulness to determine or define the effect of one variable on another

· Descriptive Statistics: Distribution modulation; variance analysis to determine characteristics of raw data – distributions, averages and peaks

· Time series Analysis: Cyclic data is used to make forecasts

· Multivariable Analysis: Numerical and graphic techniques applied to data where there are more than two variables (matrix analysis

· Sampling and Experimental Design: Design the best possible experiment in order to obtain the best results

· Non-parametric methods: Used when raw data does not meet the requirements of a normal distribution – or any other distribution.

· Analysis of variance.

Mathematics

· Integral Theory

· Differentiation

· Determine derivatives

Operational Research

· Model building and solutions – linear and non-linear programming

· Operational research or Management Science of Quality Management brings about maximisation and efficiency in industrial processes and in commercial enterprise.

· Find solutions for problems such as those dealing with human-being-machine systems in factories, mines, army, railway transport, and larger organisations.

· Provide solutions to problems encountered where people work together in a factory to produce, with the aid of a machine, a product from certain raw materials and what product to manufacture to show the maximum profit, or how the work should be scheduled to ensure optimal use of the machines.

· Work with financial models.

Computer programmer

· The programmer writes instructions for the computer in a logic order and human understandable language. This language is translated into the so-called machine language, consisting of alphabetical codes and letters “understandable” by the computer to do computations.

· Planning the process whereby the data are presented in a suitable form; work out the instructions for the computer by using appropriate computer language (COBAL, PU, RPG, FORTRAN or PU) and instruct the computer operators on how to feed the programme to the computer.

· Adaptation or shortening of existing programmes to meet requirements set

Systems analyst

· The systems analyst’s determine to what extend an enterprise may benefit by using a computer; the analysis of the requirements and design of a system; the writing of complete programmes and system specifications; consultation with users of the system to optimise change to new systems and so to ensure higher production.

· The programmer writes the instructions for the computer so that the systems required by the business man are supplied.

Applied Mathematics

· Theoretical physics which includes relativity, flow mechanics and theoretical dynamics and numerical analysis used to solve problems with the aid of computers.

· Fourier analysis.

General

· Routine conditioning of systems to maintain operational standards.

· Recording details of work performed as well as making sure that subordinates keep up-to-date daily records on test results.

· Supervising the activities of subordinates.

· Mathematical Science education

Professional Natural Scientist – Mathematical Science

Statistics

· Regression analysis: Modulation of data in an equation to facilitate its usefulness to determine or define the effect of one variable on another.

· Descriptive Statistics: Distribution modulation; variance analysis to determine a characteristic of raw data – distributions, averages and peaks.

· Time series Analysis: Cyclic data is used to make forecasts.

· Multivariable Analysis: Numerical and graphic techniques applied to data where there are more than two variables (matrix analysis).

· Sampling and Experimental Design: Design the best possible experiment in order to obtain the best results.

· Non-parametric methods: Used when raw data does not meet the requirements of a normal distribution – or any other distribution.

· Forecasting and Probabilism.

· Geostatistical Techniques.

· Analysis of variance.

· The practical statistician is responsible for the design of the sampling procedure and of the experiment.

· Economic forecasting for banks and other financial institutions, as econometricians.

· Estimation of precious metal concentrations in ore bodies for the mining houses, as geo-statisticians.

· Drug trials to assess new drugs for the pharmaceutical industry or clinical trials in medical '-research, as biostatisticians.

· Survey design and analysis for determining the impact of or the need for a new product, as market research statisticians.

· Agricultural trials to assess competing fertilizers, cultivars, etc., or experiments in animal breeding, as biometricians.

· Psychological test development and assessment in psychological research, as psycho-metricians.

· Basic statistical research to solve problems abound in the theory of statistics, developing new theory and revising existing theory, continually updates the theoretical foundations upon which the applied and consultant statistician depends

· The teaching of statistical theory and the training of students in the handling of statistical problems.

· Consultants offering statistical assistance to organisations that do not employ an in-house statistician or that require some specialised help on a wide range of problems coming from the commercial, industrial and scientific communities.

· Conduct proportional random test that includes a small percentage representative of a population; the data are statistically treated and conclusions drawn that represents the whole population.

Mathematics

· Integral Theory

· Differentiation

· Determine derivatives

· Mathematical modulations

· Investigates mathematical structures from another field such as Physics and analyse the structures to get a better insight.

· The practical application of mathematical theories and methods in qualitative and quantitative descriptions in most sciences.

Operational Research

· Model building and solutions – linear and non-linear programming

· Simulation – Monte Carlo methods

· Decision making Techniques

· Operational research or Management Science of Quality Management brings about maximisation and efficiency in industrial processes and in commercial enterprise.

· Find solutions for problems such as those dealing with human-being-machine systems in factories, mines, army, railway transport, and larger organisations.

· The placement of a group of factories or storage places to minimise production costs plus distribution costs of the produce to the final market.

· Investigation the most efficient layout of an airport or shunting yard or to optimise the utilisation of oil-from-coal.

· Scheduling the activities of large construction companies to complete a project in the shortest time span or how to saw tree stumps to obtain the maximum advantage.

· Work with financial models.

Computational occupations

· Mathematical, statistical and financial knowledge is applied to design and implement insurance and pension schemes, to determine and solve the data processing needs and problems of businesses and organisations, and develop methods for data processing.

· Planning and supplying of accounting services, supplying advice regarding accounting problems and planning and executing of financial audit services.

Computer programmer

· Adaptation or shortening of existing programmes to meet requirements set.

Systems analyst

· The programmer writes the instructions for the computer so that the systems required by the business man are supplied.

Applied Mathematics

· Theoretical physics which includes relativity, flow mechanics and theoretical dynamics and numerical analysis used to solve problems with the aid of computers.

· Industrial research, research on population growth, the design of ecological systems and forecasts on performance of artificial limbs.

· Fourier analysis

General

· Supervise and direct the activities of subordinate personnel.

· Preparing and implementing work schedules in accordance with priorities.

· Exercising financial control and assisting with the compilation of the annual budge

· Mathematical Science education.

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