Innovate Issue 2, 2007

A Letter From The Editor

•  Heavy Mettle - Leon Liebenberg (81KB)

Innovation News 

• Study of Worldwide Quality of Life 2006
• The World's Top Ten Companies with regard to R & D Expenditures
• Designed to reinvent the wheel
• Old to new
• Silver lining
• Maestro of the house, with a remote
• Nanotechnology used for cleaner water
• Striking a cord
• Just add water
• Sleeping easy is a weighty matter for newborns
• Developing a human-like robot arm - Johan & Tania Hanekom
• Construction awards for Marion island research base
• New welding technology is flaming hot
• Establishing a virtual national address database -  Serena Coetzee
• Scooting electrically
• Welcome to the fabulous world of fabrication - Naas Zaayman

Features

• Building a bridge from the studio to the townships - Amira Osman (565KB)
• The Wall, exploring the Legacy of techtronics (126KB)

Essays

•  Students' work well received in Spain (326KB)
• Retrieving inofrmation in one language via another - Erica Cosijn, Theo Bothma, Heikki Keskustalo, Ari Pirkola & Kalervo Jarvelin (381KB)
• Linguistic information - a humanistic endeavour - Jan H Kroeze (42KB)
• Computers in support of history research - Stefan Gruner (234KB)
• The buzz of business intelligence - Pieter J Conradie (157KB)
• Sea(ling) the rust - Chris Pistorius (133KB)
• Understanding the trickle - Philip de Vaal (192KB)
• The freedom to design - Graham Young (310KB)
• Measuring Innovation - Andre Buys (127KB)
• Objective classification of two-phase regimes - Leon Liebenberg and Josua Meyer (133KB)

​​Student Projects

• Multi purpose batch process heat integration - Bjanca Jovancic (76KB)
• All about Elvis (66KB)
• Designing a low noise propeller for an unmanned aeriel vehicle - H Peter Visser (167KB)
• Packing sphere beds to simulate transient solid conduction - Cecelia van der Merwe (63KB)
• Engineering the future - Gerhard Hancke (67KB)
• Engineering takes off among youngsters  - Sholain Govender (54KB)
• Designed for success (65KB)
• Shifting the frontiers - Peter Kluge (57KB)
• Simulation model takes top honours (74KB)
• Giving the environment a break - Frane van Zyl (74KB)
• Digital image processing measures flexural strains - Emile Horak (90KB)
• Innovation generation commercialises technology (97KB)
• A new signature on the block (97KB)
• Understanding metal accross the spectrum - Chris Pistorius (149KB)

​​Community Development 

• Project Pumascope benefits both students and rural educators - Hein Venter (62KB)
• Making problems work - Linda Marshall (62KB)
• The project school - Felix le Roux (33KB)

Quotable Quotes 

• Prof Josua Meyer (42KB)
• Mr Mosibudi Mangena (46KB)

Achievements 

• University of Pretoria receives IEEE award - Janine Smit (56KB)
• Heinrich Wolff scoops Daimlerchrysler award for Aouth African Architecture 2007 (81KB)
• Touching the stars - Charlotte van Rensburg (46KB)

Book Review

•  Practical Mathematical Optimization - Jan A Snyman

Last Word

• The path to innovation - Stefan Gruner (74KB)