UP’s School of Engineering ranked No.1 in South Africa and Africa

Posted on August 18, 2020

The University of Pretoria’s (UP) School of Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and IT (EBIT) has been ranked first in South Africa and Africa according to the 2020 US News and World Report Rankings on the Best Global Universities for Engineering.

EBIT students pulling efforts irrespective of lockdown rules.

Posted on August 13, 2020

The Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology’s Community-Based Module (JCP) is a project-orientated basis where students are required to do fieldwork and report on their experiences and lessons learned from the fieldwork.

EBIT Students continue to make a difference during Covid-19

Posted on July 22, 2020

The Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment, and Information Technology’s Community-based Module (JCP) continues to positively contribute and make a difference in society during Covid-19. Five students who are enrolled for this compulsory undergraduate module gave a helping hand to Lesedi...

JCP student assist schools with masks during Covid-19

Posted on July 13, 2020

Dylan Howard, a second-year town and regional planning student delivered the masks he made to the Holy Family Guided college, a school in Glenwood, that distributes to necessary schools. They will be sharing the mask with Primary School learners and their mission neighbours at the Glenmore...

EBIT Students assist disadvantaged communities during COVID-19

Posted on July 02, 2020

This year the Community-based Project Module (code: JCP) came up against a challenge. The students have to work at least 40 hours in the community to pass the module successfully. With the COVID 19 lockdown students had to find alternative ways to do their community work. A second-year mechanical...

ENGINEERING CAFETERIA FLAMES ALUMNI ROMANCE

Posted on June 18, 2020

On 14 June 2020, Kevin Smith, a former student in the UP Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology (EBIT), proposed to Ashleigh, his girlfriend of four and a half years. He could have proposed anywhere, but due to the impact campus life had had on him, he decided to do...

Students make masks for Nelson Mandela Community Youth Centre

Posted on June 04, 2020

Emile Asari, Yashvir Chetty, Reagan Pramraj and Sauvarn Singh, second-year civil engineering students in the Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology, made face masks for people who need them due to the COVID-19 pandemic. They produced 1 000 masks, each group member...

Visors ready for Tsako Thabo Secondary School to use when they open

Posted on June 04, 2020

Two students from the Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology (EBIT) made sanitisers and applied 3D printing to make visors for Tsako Thabo Secondary School to use when schools reopen after the COVID-19 pandemic.