Innovate Issue 7, 2012

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Letter From The Editor 

• Should South Africa invest in high-technology R&D ? by Prof Tinus Pretorius

Innovation Focus

• Blue Dimension: A new software editor and simulator for cellular automata by Rishal Hurbans
• Harvard and UP find water transport solution by Prof Japie Schoeman

Features

• Innovative results require innovative strategies by Janine Smit
• IEEE leaders address UP academics on engineering education by Marlene de Witt
• Integrated assessment and management of health care infrastructure and technology by Dr Louwrence Erasmus, Mr Mladen Poluta and Dr Richard Weeks
• University offers new multidisciplinary course for airborne infection control
• Telemedicine can lower health care costs in Africa by Prof Maurice Mars and Dr Louwrence Erasmus
• Health care management: An e-health perspective by Dr Richard Weeks
• Mobile post-training support for data captures in a health environment by Machdel Matthee and Jacobus Liebenberg
• Rebuilding an ancient southern African kingdom
• Tuks gets stuck in the mud

Essays

• Stirring the urban pot: The nature and future of mixed housing in South Africa by Dr Karina Landman
• Revealing the nano-world to understand an age-old process by Dr Heinrich Badenhorst
• Education and training in automotive component manufacturing by Prof Jasper Steyn
• Meta-optimisation of the parameters of the Extended Kalman Filter improves feature extractions on hypertemporal images by BP Salon, W Kleynhans, F van den Bergh, KJ Wessels, JC Olivier and WJ Marais
• Using ICT4D to make a difference in Tugela Ferry by Dr Marita Turpin and Kristin Krauss
• An innovation translation perspective of future Web 2.0 design trajectories by Dr Rennie Naidoo
• Separating Ta and Nb using a dry process by Andrew Pienaar
• RED in architecture: An ecotropic approach by Prof Roger C Fisher and Nicholas J Clarke
• Image behaviour in international engineering projects by Dr Dongdong Jiang and Prof Leon Pretorius
• Can electronic product reliability be predicted? by Albertyn Barnard
• On forensics: A silent SMS attack by Niel Croft
• The role of satellite remote sensing in detecting athropogenic land-cover change by Brian Salmon and Dr Waldo Kleynhans
• Implementing open source software to conform to national policy by Lizette Weilbach
• Management framework for people, processes and places in the virtual workspace by Dr Ilse Geldenhuys, Prof Carina de Villiers and Prof Trish Alexander
• Adding vanadium to improve the ductility of niobium-containing steels by Dr Kevin Banks, Dr Alison Tuling and Prof Barrie Mintz
• Predicting the buckling length of compression chords in prefabricated roof structures by Prof Walter Burzik and Prof Nick Dekker

News

• Launch of University of Pretoria's new energy research initiative 
• Trevor Manuel urges engineers to plan for change
• UP acquires the largest geotechnical centrifuge in the southern hemisphere
• Xstrata establishes research chair in Centre for Pyrometellurgy
• Eskom specialisation centre enhances research by Prof Stephan Heyns
• Study centre for the School of Engineering
• African Centre of Excellence for Information Ethics established by Coetzee Bester and Rachel Bothma
• UP honours British philanthropist and interior design expert by Raymond Konigk
• House Onderstepoort now houses record-breaking solar water heating system by Marlene de Witt
• The threat of rapidly rising electricity prices for energy-intensive users
• Securing carbon finance to promote energy efficiency by Prof Ciska Terblanche
• RIM opens BlackBerry Apps Lab at the University of Pretoria 

Achievements

• Broadband Wireless Multimedia Communications Research Group excels by Kahesh Dhuness and Prof Sunil Maharaj
• University of Pretoria students support the MeerKAT/SKA initiative
• UP Architecture students are reaping in rewards
• Wooden light design earns a trip to Sweden
• Architect receives award for sustainable design
• Preparing to meet new challenges
• Multimedia student impress Hollywood actors and producers
• The HexCore programming environment and simulator for CA experiments by Divan Burger, Megan Duncan, Apurva Kumar, Leon van Dyk and Karl Zoller

Book Review

• Science transformed? Debating claims of an epochal break by Prof Stefan Gruner 
• Landscape architecture in South Africa celebrated by Marlene de Witt
• Reviewing engineering asset management
• Researching the value of project management by Dr Giel Bekker

Last Word

• The roots of industrial engineering: Girolamo Cardano - the gambling physician compiled by Prof Paul Kruger