Innovate Issue 4, 2010

 


A Letter From The Editor

Editorial: Creating a productive environment for Innovators - Prof Tinus Pretorius

Innovation News 

• Innovators and the challenges they face - Pieter de Villiers
• University chemist develops innovative product for niche market - Dr Heidi Rolfes
• Excellence in engineering, the built environment and information technology - Prof Roelf Sandenbergh
• The evolution of project management - Prof Herman Steyn
• Project governance - it is time - Dr Giel Bekker
• New facilities meet the need for more engineers
• New facilities promote energy-efficient design principles
• Urbanism as a stimulant for interactive minds - Anton de Jongh

Features

• The evolution of project management - Prof Herman Steyn
• Project governance - it is time - Dr Giel Bekker
• New facilities meet the need for more engineers
• New facilities promote energy-efficient design principles
• Urbanism as a stimulant for interactive minds - Anton de Jongh

Essays

• Governing temporary interorganisational projects - Prof Leon Oerlemans and Prof Tinus Pretorius
• Cracking the pigment code - Prof Johan de Villiers
• Repairing gas turbine engines - Prof Madeleine du Toit and Warren Migletti
• Research in refractory materials - Prof Andrie Garbers-Craig
• 3D CMOS Photodiode modelling and simulator design - Paul Ellinghaus and Jannes Venter
• Electromagnetic horns with elliptic plate separation - Prof Jan Malherbe
• Navigating a South African enterprise through the uncharted waters of the global service economy - Dr Richard Weeks and Dr Siebert Benade
• Hope for the water woes of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) - Prof Evans Chirwa
• Can South Africa move into the next phase of economic development - Prof Tinus Pretorius
• Designing guard patrol routes in security estates - Elias J Willemse and Dr Johan Joubert
• Gated communities - utopian vision or necessary evil - Dr Karina Landman
• Growing better transport solutions - Dr Johan W Joubert and Pieter J Fourie
• Reality bites - biotech innovation in South Africa - Anton S Jordaan and Donrich W Jordaan 

Community Development

• The Engineering Augmented Degree Programme - increasing access and success in engineering - Prof Diane Grayson
• Eskom Expo for Young Scientists
• UNESCO partners with the University of Pretoria
• The University of Pretoria welcomes its new Vice Chancellor and Principal
•  The Carl and Emily Fuchs Foundation Fellowship
• University of Pretoria joins EMC Academic Alliance Programme
• Success in the first degree: Kerrin Myres
• Quantity surveying students visit Dubai
• New boiler for Department of Chemical Engineering
• 2009 Sasol Baja SAE Challenge 
• Campus stores provide an innovative retailing solution

Achievements

•  Prof Tinus Maritz appointed to SACQSP Council
•  Grant for innovating global health research
•  Prof Focke receives dti Technology Award
•  Stals Prize for Library and Information Science
•  SAICSIT Certificate of Appreciation and Festschrift for Prof Derrick Kourie
• The Engineering Council of South Africa boasts two members from the UP community
• Honorary doctorate conferred on Prof Ojelanki Ngwenyama
• Alumnus is USA magazines innovator of the year 
• Department of Construction Economics shines at industry conferences
• UP student wins Chemical Technology Innovation Award
• Former UP student receives Mercedes-Benz scholarship
• Dr Sinha elevated to Senior Member of the IEEE
• Prof Xia receives A-rating
• Exceptional academic achievers
• Students of the Department of Computer Science publish books 

Last Word

• Paying tribute to Prof Dewald Roode - a true scholar