February 23, 2024
Congratulations to Lelanie Smith on Becoming an Associate Professor!
Today is a special day as we celebrate the promotion of Lelanie Smith, Head of Community-based Projects and supersmart Aeronautical Engineer, to the role of...
December 12, 2023
UP’s EBIT Students Cultivate Impactful Community Engagement while Embracing Social Responsibility
In academia, the connection between theory and practice often materialises in community projects through service learning. From April to September 2023, second...
October 12, 2023
Embarking on the Path of Community-Engaged Transdisciplinary Research
The University of Pretoria (UP) is firmly dedicated to utilising its expertise, knowledge, and research capabilities to effect positive change and elevate the...
September 27, 2023
Sensory STEM Garden Blossoms at University of Pretoria's Mamelodi Campus: A Collaborative Triumph
The official opening of the Sensory STEM garden at the University of Pretoria, Mamelodi campus took place on Friday. Prof Themba Mosia, acting vice-principal...
September 27, 2023
Empowering Tomorrow's Innovators: JCP and Sifiso EdTech's Robotics Holiday Bootcamp
The Joint Community Projects (JCP) is a compulsory service learning module for the Engineering, Built Environment and IT (EBIT) Faculty. As a component of its...
October 21, 2020
Students developed videos for ELIM church
Jan Bakker (2 nd-year Industrial engineering), Tamika Govender, Caitlin Mollentze, Devina Pillay and Serena Veerasamy (all 2 nd-year Civil engineering)...
June 04, 2020
Visors ready for Tsako Thabo Secondary School to use when they open
Two students from the Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology (EBIT) made sanitisers and applied 3D printing to make visors for...
June 04, 2020
Students make masks for Nelson Mandela Community Youth Centre
Emile Asari, Yashvir Chetty, Reagan Pramraj, and Sauvarn Singh, second-year civil engineering students in the Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and...
May 08, 2020
UP student projects help local schools kick-start online teaching and learning amid COVID-19 lockdown
A collaboration between local schools and students at UP’s Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology is finding innovative ways to...
April 17, 2020
Students develop an app for Tshwane Homelessness Forum
Two students, David de Villiers and Kian Strydom, who are enrolled in Community-based learning (code: JCP), a compulsory course of the Faculty of Engineering...
April 17, 2020
Student uses 3D printing process to produce face visors for Leboang Health Care in Soshanguve
Marco Matthis, a second-year Computer Engineering student who is enrolled for the compulsory undergraduate module Community-based project (code JCP), applied...
April 07, 2019
Robyn Ingle-Möller from Lory Park Animal and Owl Sanctuary received special award from the JCP module
Robyn Ingle-Möller from Lory Park Animal and Owl Sanctuary was specially acknowledged by the Community-based Project Module (JCP) of the Faculty of Engineering...
April 07, 2019
JCP students acknowledged for their hard work
Students were acknowledged for their hard work during the annual prize-giving ceremony of the Community-based Project Module (JCP). 51 of the 411 groups that...
June 20, 2018
JCP students created a positive work environment for nurses at Weskoppies Hospital
A group of engineering students was challenged with the task of improving a nurse’s quarters at Weskoppies Psychiatric Hospital. This was a daunting task...
June 12, 2018
JCP-students assisted at Echo Youth Development
A team of four engineering students, Waldo Gerber, Bart-Jan Hulsman, Hannah Johnson and JJ Krause ventured all the way to Frankfort in the Free State to...
April 30, 2018
JCP-student assisted at Bunny Khosa High School in Bushbuckridge Rural, Mpumalanga
One of the students enrolled for the compulsory undergraduate module, Community-based Project Module (code: JCP), of the Faculty of Engineering, Built...
April 28, 2018
First JCP group to complete their hours for 2018
The first group of the 2018 cohort of students enrolled in the Community-based Project Module (code: JCP) completed their project. This year there are 1499...
April 28, 2018
MAP Competition of Keep that Gold Shining
Keep That Gold Shining (KTG), in collaboration with Community-based project module (code: JCP) of the Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information...
April 12, 2018
Student tutors learners of Mohumi High School
Kgoale Delton Rathoakga, a second year BEng - Metallurgical Engineering student who is enrolled for the compulsory undergraduate module, Community-Based Project...
April 12, 2018
Students made a difference in the lives of the cockatoos at Lory Park Zoo
Students enrolled for the compulsory undergraduate module, Community-based Project (code: JCP) of the Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information...