Posted on March 17, 2022
The John Perlman Show (702) - Interview with Prof David Walwyn The announcement by Moderna that it will continue to make the mRNA vaccines on its own is a big blow to the African Hub. Professor of technology management at the University of Pretoria, David Richard Walwyn, says the partnership...
Posted on March 17, 2022
Moderna's announced plans to manufacture COVID-19 vaccines in Kenya. Interview with Prof David Walwyn Newsroom Africa - March 2022 Moderna's announced plans to manufacture COVID-19 vaccines in Kenya. The pharmaceutical company holds much of the key intellectual property relating to mRNA...
Posted on March 07, 2022
Dear valued Stakeholders, Advisory Board Members & Students It is with great pleasure that we inform you that our Department, Graduate School of Technology Management, relocated to an upgraded, professional and modern facility within the heart of Hatfield. This location has frontage road...
Posted on February 04, 2022
To kick off with a good start in 2022, a research article titled “Keep it simple: external resource utilisation and incremental product innovation in resource-challenged South African manufacturing firms” was published in Industry and Innovation (5-y IF=4.444) by Profs Leon Oerlemans,...
Posted on January 24, 2022
Appointment of Tahseen Raiman as GSTM PMI SA Student Representative The Graduate School of Technology Management and The Project Management Institute South Africa Chapter are pleased to announce the appointment of Tahseen Raiman as the GSTM/PMI SA Student Chapter Representative for 2022....
Posted on November 17, 2021
You are invited to attend a Virtual Public Seminar, hosted by the Department of Engineering and Technology Management, Graduate School of Technology Management. There is increasing understanding of the need to operationalise resiliency and sustainability for socio-economic inclusivity, liberal...
Posted on October 29, 2021
The lack of vaccine production capacity in African countries has been the subject of much concern and hand-wringing in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. It has become a particularly hot topic because of the gravely unequal access to COVID-19 vaccines between developed and developing countries....
Posted on October 06, 2021
Prof Elma van der Lingen, Chair GSTM, would like to congratulate Dr Rudolph Oosthuizen for receiving the Best Paper Award at the IAMOT 2021 Conference
Posted on September 17, 2021
Prof Elma van der Lingen, Chair GSTM, would like to congratulate Henk van den Heever and Dr Rudolph Oosthuizen for receiving the Best Paper Award at the 15th Annual INCOSE, SA Conference.
Posted on September 16, 2021
Prof Elma van der Lingen, Chair GSTM, would like to congratulate Sezer Uludağ and Prof Leon Pretorius for receiving the Best Student Paper Award (Danie Krige Award) at the APCOM (Applications of Computers and Operations Research in the Minerals Industries) conference.
Posted on September 13, 2021
The title of my lecture, “the challenge of industrial development, insights from research and practice”, sounds a little old fashioned in terms of economic policy. Industrial development conjures into being images of smoke stacks and Dickensian factories with machines belching...
Posted on September 09, 2021
Join us for the 15th Annual INCOSE SA Conference, the premier conference of systems engineering and related disciplines in Africa. The conference allows industry, organizations, educators, researchers, and government to showcase cutting edge practice and research. The conference's theme,...
Posted on September 06, 2021
Sawmillers with a value strategy have proven to be more resilient against market fluctuations, writes Schalk Grobbelaar. South African sawmills primarily produce structural lumber for roof trusses. Very little of the local production is exported, and imports are also limited. For this reason,...
Posted on September 03, 2021
African ecosystems are constantly experiencing a myriad of positive disruptions and, now, perhaps more than ever before, sustained quantum leaps require managing transformations to ensure effectiveness. As the rest of the world looks forward to re-emerging economically, socially, financially and...
Posted on August 27, 2021
You are invited to attend a Virtual Public Seminar, hosted by the Department of Engineering and Technology Management, Graduate School of Technology Management. The decay of small towns in South Africa is alarming. Local authorities are increasing failing to render basic services and support...
Posted on August 02, 2021
Municipalities are falling short in terms of project management in “nearly all aspects”, University of Pretoria (UP) project management associate Professor Giel Bekker tells Engineering News.
Posted on August 02, 2021
Remote sensing techniques – the distanced procurement of information about objects or areas with indirect contact sensors – can improve the speed, accuracy and cost effectiveness of surveying for construction in mining, says University of Pretoria Department of Engineering and...
Posted on July 27, 2021
COVID-19 has reignited the debate about the local manufacture of vaccines and its critical link to public health. There are now multiple initiatives to build more resilient health systems and establish a global capability in vaccine supply. The possibility of future pandemics, and the need to...
Posted on June 30, 2021
Prof Joe Amadi-Echendu's book, Managing Engineered Assets, Principles and Practical Concepts, has been published by Springer, Cham. Customer can order it via https://www.springer.com/in/book/9783030760502.
Posted on May 27, 2021
The Graduate School of Technology Management and The Project Management Institute South Africa Chapter recently renewed their memorandum of understanding (MOU) for a further two years. The MOU been in place since 2017. It has established a collaborative relationship between the two organisations...
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