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  • How social media can encourage energy efficiency

    Posted on May 24, 2016

    Ms Uduakobong Ekpenyong wants to encourage people to adopt energy efficiency as a way of reducing demand on the power sector and increasing usage of renewable energy.

  • Free hearing test with local app hearZA

    Posted on March 03, 2016

    An app that lets users test their hearing using their smart device has been developed and validated by researchers at UP and was officially launched on 2 March 2016 ahead of World Hearing Day on 3 March.

  • Hat-trick for Prof Tania Hanekom

    Posted on November 30, 2015

    Prof Tania Hanekom, from the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, has received a hat-trick of awards: the Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology (EBIT) award, the University of Pretoria award and the National award for Teaching and Learning.

  • Dean of EBIT receives SAIEE Engineering Excellence Award

    Posted on November 23, 2015

    Professor Sunil Maharaj, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology (EBIT), recently received the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers' (SAIEE’s) 2015 Engineering Excellence Award at the Institute's Annual Banquet and Awards Function.

  • More accolades for hearScreen

    Posted on October 28, 2015

    The hearScreen innovation - developed by the University of Pretoria - is still making waves and has garnered in more awards in the past few weeks.

  • EBIT paper wins IEEE Africon 2015 Conference Best Paper Award

    Posted on September 29, 2015

    Prof Sunil Maharaj, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology (EBIT), and one of his students, Mr Pandelani Munyai, won the Best Paper Award at the 2015 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Africon Conference.

  • UP student awarded two prestigious scholarships

    Posted on September 02, 2015

    Ms Shruti Lall, a master’s student in Electronic Engineering at the University of Pretoria (UP), was recently awarded two prestigious scholarships.

  • SKA is helping to bring Africa into the knowledge economy

    Posted on June 22, 2015

    The SKA project is the source of significant innovation, including the development of the ‘industrial’ techniques required to build an industrial-scale telescope.

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