October 26, 2023
University of Pretoria, in collaboration with Anglo American, launches state of the art mobile soils testing laboratory for tailings engineering
\u00a0 \u00a0 A state-of-the-art mobile soils laboratory will be launched on 26 October 2023 at the Engineering 4.0 complex on the Hillcrest Campus of the...
October 24, 2023
The University of Pretoria wins the 2023 Quanser Sustainability Award
The 2023 Quanser Sustainability Award was awarded to Dr Calayde Davey in the Department of Architecture and Dr Johann van der Merwe in the Department Civil...
July 25, 2023
UP EBIT Week shows increasing number of female learners interested in STEM subjects
The recent EBIT Week 2023, hosted by the University of Pretoria’s (UP) Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology (EBIT), drew three...
October 14, 2022
Better understanding and not just “an app” needed to improve public transport
Mr Tlhalefi Austin Mphela, a final-year Civil Engineering student was featured in the September issue of SAICE, Civil Engineering magazine. This is what Austin...
September 06, 2022
Meet smWoef, the University of Pretoria’s new robotic dog
It can dance. It can sniff. It does a backflip with ease. And it’s a bit of a show-off, only too happy to be one of the University of Pretoria’s (UP’s) greatest...
October 04, 2021
UP researcher leads the way to green hydropower for remote communities
A University of Pretoria academic has helped to design and build an innovative small-scale hydropower plant to generate 50kW of electricity for the remote rural...
September 30, 2021
Marco van Dijk wins WRC Knowledge Tree Award
Congratulations to Mr Marco van Dijk in the Department of Civil Engineering, who was the winner in the Empowering Communities category for the Knowledge Tree...
July 20, 2021
#UPMandelaMonth: ‘Your purpose in life should have an element of helping others to excel’ – Prof Wynand Steyn, Department of Civil Engineering
Professor Wynand Steyn, Head of the University of Pretoria’s (UP) Department of Civil Engineering, tells Primarashni Gower about his thoughts on community...
June 24, 2021
#UPYouthMonth: ‘Youth represents possibility – we have so much to offer and impart to the world’ – Kory Shukrani Potgieter, EnactusUP Chairperson
“The youth of 1976 realised their power, potential and purpose; we need to continue to be strong and courageous,” says Kory Shukrani Potgieter, an alumna of the...
July 22, 2020
UP and CSIR sign collaboration agreement on smart transport, cities and environments
The University of Pretoria (UP) and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), an entity of the Department of Science and Innovation (DSI)...
June 16, 2020
Passing away of UP alumnus Professor Will Alexander
ALEXANDER, William John Richard (1924/09/17 to 2020/06/09) It is with great sadness that Mrs Evelyn Stoddard, the daughter of Prof Will Alexander, announced his...
March 16, 2020
University of Pretoria commemorates 100 years of trans-African flight and re-installation of flight monument
Two crashed planes, 109 flying hours and 45 days. This is what it took Lieutenant Colonel Pierre van Ryneveld and Captain Quentin Brand to write history by...
September 26, 2019
UP’s Engineering 4.0 to take transportation into the future
The University of Pretoria’s (UP) state-of-the-art Engineering 4.0 building, which is nearing completion, will host Africa’s first independent transport...
September 17, 2017
Sachin Ravjee wins best presenter at YGE
Sachin Ravjee, a Masters student in the Department of Civil Engineering, won the award for best presentation at the recent South Afrcian Young Geotechnical...
June 29, 2017
Professors Jacobsz & Kearsley win Gold Medal from SA Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
Professors Jacobsz and Kearsley, working in collaboration with Dr Daniel Cumming-Potvin and Dr Johan Wesseloo of the Australian Centre of Geomechanics at the...
June 29, 2017
Thato Seabi awarded 2nd best paper at HydroVision 2017, Denver Colorado
Thato Seabi, Masters student in the Department of Civil Engineering, was awarded second prize at HydroVision 2017 in Denver Colorado for his paper "Maximising...
June 04, 2017
Van Zylspruit Bridge wins Fulton Innovation Award
Van Zylspruit Integral Bridge was joint winner of the Innovation in Concrete Category at the Fulton Awards 2017. This bridge was constructed without any...
March 27, 2017
New programme aims to ensure safer rail transport in SA
The Railway Occurrence Investigation Programme (ROIP) was jointly developed by Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) and the Department of Civil Engineering in the...
February 12, 2015
Open lecture by Prof Stephane Hess (University of Leeds)
The University of Pretoria invites you to an open lecture by Prof Stephane Hess, Professor of Choice Modelling at the Institute for Transport Studies and...
February 05, 2015
Public Defence of PhD dissertation - Julia Shekhovtsova
The Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Pretoria cordially invites you to a Public Defence of a PhD dissertation by Ms Julia Shekhovtsova...