UP researcher leads the way to green hydropower for remote communities

Posted on October 04, 2021

The new plant was handed over at a ceremony that was attended by senior government officials, along with representatives of UP, the Water Research Commission, Mhlontlo Local Municipality and the Kwa-Madiba community.

UP Engineering 4.0’s ‘smart avos’ hold the key to determining the impact of transportation conditions on agricultural products

Posted on June 04, 2021

A team from UP’s Department of Civil Engineering used the Department’s unique smAvo and smaTo sensor platforms to monitor the transportation by cargo ship of a consignment of avocados destined for The Netherlands.

UP and CSIR sign collaboration agreement on smart transport, cities and environments

Posted on July 22, 2020

The University of Pretoria (UP) and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), an entity of the Department of Science and Innovation (DSI) have signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) today (22 July 2020), to collaborate in the area of smart transport, cities and environments.

UP’s Engineering 4.0 to take transportation into the future

Posted on September 26, 2019

UP's state-of-the-art Engineering 4.0 building will host Africa’s first independent transport reference and testing facility. It will also be a research and training hub for smart transport systems.

Professors Jacobsz & Kearsley win Gold Medal from SA Institute of Mining and Metallurgy

Posted on June 29, 2017

Professors Jacobsz and Kearsley and collaborators from the University of Western Australia received the Gold Medal of the Southern African Institution of Mining and Metallurgy for their paper "Fracture banding in caving mines".