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  • 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.

  • Computer guru awarded honorary doctorate by University of Pretoria

    Posted on April 24, 2015

    Prof Marco Dorigo studied the complex social behaviours of ants and applied them to computer science in order to solve difficult combinatorial optimisation problems.

  • Searching for Noah's Ark: Analysing the Ararat Anomaly

    Posted on July 02, 2014

    Prof Sunil Maharaj of the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, and Francois Luus, a PhD student, recently featured in an article titled “Noah’s search: probing satellite imagery for lost ark”, which was headlined on Space.com, Discovery.com, as well as...

  • Launch of the newly upgraded Society for Automation, Instrumentation, Measurement and Control (SAIMC) Laboratory

    Posted on February 03, 2014

    The SAIMC control laboratory was unveiled by the Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Pretoria, Prof Cheryl de la Rey, and the President of the Society for Automation, Instrumentation, Measurement and Control (SAIMC), Mr. Vinesh Maharaj, on 22 January 2014.

  • Professor awarded a B2 rating by the National Research Foundation

    Posted on December 05, 2013

    Prof Gerhard Hancke is the Head of the Advanced Sensor Networks Group and Coordinator of the Computer Engineering Programme. He pioneered and is still leading advanced sensor networks (ASN) research in South Africa, with significant international recognition, especially for advanced wireless...

  • UP student takes top honours in SAIEE competition

    Posted on December 03, 2013

    The 2013 National Student Project Competition of the SAIEE (South African Institute of Electrical Engineers) was hosted by the University of Pretoria on 28 November. Top final-year students from South African universities and universities of technology took part in the competition.

  • Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering Students Impress with Final Year Projects

    Posted on November 25, 2013

    Every year the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering gives their final year project students an opportunity to showcase their final year projects to fellow students and industry partners, and in 2013 it was no different. The annual Final Year Project Competition was held...

  • UP Academic wins a Prestigious 2013 DTI Technology Award

    Posted on November 07, 2013

    Prof Sunil Maharaj who holds the SENTECH Chair in Broadband Wireless Multimedia Communications (BWMC) in the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering was the winner of The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) THRIP Award in their Advanced Hi-Tech Research Category for his...

  • SAIEE Robotics Visiting Lecture

    Posted on October 02, 2013

    Easton LaChappelle, 17, began working with robotics when he was 14. He lives in Mancos, Colorado, and is challenging the future of prosthetics and tele-robotics. His long-term goal is to create an affordable upper-limb prosthesis that is neural controlled and stronger than a human. He has two 3D...

  • Departmental Prize Giving 2013

    Posted on March 13, 2013

    The Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering held its annual prize giving ceremony on Thursday 7 March 2013.

  • INSiAVA shines at Photonics West, California

    Posted on February 22, 2013

    INSiAVA was a first time exhibitor at the SPIE Photonics West exhibition, held 5-7 February 2013 in San Francisco, California, USA. The official number of attendees exceeded 20,000.

  • New research programme in Electronic Defence through South Africa / Saudi Arabia partnership with University of Pretoria

    Posted on September 28, 2012

    CSIR and its Saudi Arabian partner, the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), have taken the next step in their bi-national initiative to enhance engineering research capabilities in Radar and Electronic Defence by establishing a new research program at the University of...

  • University of Pretoria joins forces with Agilent Technologies

    Posted on September 11, 2012

    The Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering at the University of Pretoria has partnered with internationally renowned company Agilent Technologies to develop the largest electrical engineering training laboratory in South Africa.

  • University of Pretoria launches CBI-electric low voltage Chair in Power Electronics

    Posted on September 10, 2012

    The Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering at the University of Pretoria (UP) launched the CBI-electric low voltage Chair in Power Electronics.

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