Posted on March 26, 2020
This is the ideal time for members of the rock mechanics community to take advantage of the opportunity presented by the South African Institute of Rock Engineering (SANIRE) on 30 March 2020 to watch Prof Francois Malan deliver the 29th Online Lecture of the International Society for Rock...
Posted on March 26, 2020
The Department of Mining Engineering at the University of Pretoria, in partnership with African Rainbow Minerals (ARM), launched the African Rainbow Minerals Postgraduate Bursary Initiative on 3 March 2020.
Posted on March 18, 2020
Ada sounds and probes like a counsellor, doctor, or a friend. But she is actually a mobile application that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to track symptoms to get to the probable cause of an ailment.
Posted on March 16, 2020
Two crashed planes, 109 flying hours and 45 days. This is what it took Lieutenant Colonel Pierre van Ryneveld and Captain Quentin Brand to write history by completing the first flight from London to Cape Town on 19 March 1920.
Posted on March 05, 2020
Welcome to Society 5.0, where cyberspace and physical space collide, and information overload, fake news and social media addiction are commonplace digital problems.
Posted on March 04, 2020
While South Africa is known for its diverse wealth of minerals, coupled with a well-regulated mining industry, a primary concern for the industry as a whole is to keep mining-related casualties to a minimum. In an endeavor to support the industry to achieve its objective of zero-harm, the...
Posted on February 21, 2020
Huawei Technologies South Africa has once again invested in students from the University of Pretoria’s (UP) Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment and Information Technology by awarding them bursaries at a recent ceremony that was attended by Huawei executives and staff from...
Posted on February 15, 2020
The annual Investing in African Mining Indaba, the world’s largest mining investment event, took place in Cape Town from 3 to 6 February 2020. The final day of the event included a Young Leaders Programme, which featured, among other topics, a discussion forum on the future of careers in...
Posted on January 29, 2020
The Society of Mining Professors (SOMP), an international society that represents mining academics all over the world, has selected the research paper of Prof Ronny Webber-Youngman (Head of the Department of Mining Engineering at the University of Pretoria) and Dr Johann Uys (senior lecturer in...
Posted on January 27, 2020
The University of Pretoria’s Department of Information Science in collaboration with the Data Intensive Research Initiative of South Africa (DIRISA), South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR) and Network of Data and Information Curation Communities (NeDICC) presented a...
Posted on January 20, 2020
The Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology at the University of Pretoria launched its 19th industry chair, which is also the third research chair in the Department of Mining Engineering, on 25 November 2019, the Murray and Roberts Chair in Industry Leadership 4.0.
Posted on January 17, 2020
Dr Vukosi Marivate is the ABSA Chair of Data Science at the University of Pretoria and co-founder of the Deep Learning Indaba. He spoke to Primarashni Gower about his work.
Posted on January 13, 2020
The University of Pretoria’s (UP) Department of Materials Science and Metallurgical Engineering has been ranked number one in South Africa by the Minerals Education Trust Fund (METF) for 2019.
Posted on January 03, 2020
Welcome to the University of Pretoria and congratulations on choosing UP. You’ve made one of the best decisions of your life!
Posted on December 13, 2019
It is with great sadness
Posted on December 09, 2019
The Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology is pleased to announce the reappointment of its Head of Department of Mining Engineering, Prof Ronny Webber-Youngman, for a fourth term of office. His contract extends until the end of 2023.
Posted on December 09, 2019
TuksChess makes a hat trick win at the 2019 University Sport South Africa (USSA) Chess Championships. The University Sports South Africa commonly known as the USSA is an annual competition in which various sporting from universities around South Africa partake in.
Posted on December 04, 2019
Henno de Villiers and Liné Grobler were announced as the 2019 winners of the Greenovate Awards.
Posted on November 29, 2019
“Localising manufacturing related to new technologies brings a host of benefits for the local economy, such as development of skills and increased economic activity, thereby elevating the quality of life,” says Dr George Thopil of the University of Pretoria’s Graduate School of...
Posted on November 19, 2019
Professor Hanli Smuts from the University of Pretoria’s Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology, Department of Informatics gave lessons about fintech at the AfricaCom conference in Cape Town.
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