Posted on September 16, 2021
Prof Elma van der Lingen, Chair GSTM, would like to congratulate Sezer Uludağ and Prof Leon Pretorius for receiving the Best Student Paper Award (Danie Krige Award) at the APCOM (Applications of Computers and Operations Research in the Minerals Industries) conference.
Posted on September 13, 2021
The title of my lecture, “the challenge of industrial development, insights from research and practice”, sounds a little old fashioned in terms of economic policy. Industrial development conjures into being images of smoke stacks and Dickensian factories with machines belching...
Posted on September 09, 2021
Join us for the 15th Annual INCOSE SA Conference, the premier conference of systems engineering and related disciplines in Africa. The conference allows industry, organizations, educators, researchers, and government to showcase cutting edge practice and research. The conference's theme,...
Posted on September 06, 2021
Sawmillers with a value strategy have proven to be more resilient against market fluctuations, writes Schalk Grobbelaar. South African sawmills primarily produce structural lumber for roof trusses. Very little of the local production is exported, and imports are also limited. For this reason,...
Posted on September 03, 2021
African ecosystems are constantly experiencing a myriad of positive disruptions and, now, perhaps more than ever before, sustained quantum leaps require managing transformations to ensure effectiveness. As the rest of the world looks forward to re-emerging economically, socially, financially and...
Posted on August 27, 2021
You are invited to attend a Virtual Public Seminar, hosted by the Department of Engineering and Technology Management, Graduate School of Technology Management. The decay of small towns in South Africa is alarming. Local authorities are increasing failing to render basic services and support...
Posted on August 02, 2021
Municipalities are falling short in terms of project management in “nearly all aspects”, University of Pretoria (UP) project management associate Professor Giel Bekker tells Engineering News.
Posted on August 02, 2021
Remote sensing techniques – the distanced procurement of information about objects or areas with indirect contact sensors – can improve the speed, accuracy and cost effectiveness of surveying for construction in mining, says University of Pretoria Department of Engineering and...
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