Two UP experts win awards at National Science and Technology Forum ‘Science Oscars’

Posted on July 31, 2020

Professor Mike Wingfield and Professor Josua Meyer of the University of Pretoria (UP) won awards at this year’s National Science and Technology Forum (NSTF)-South32 Awards.

UP team finishes 13th out of 100 teams in global off-road vehicle engineering competition

Posted on June 30, 2020

The University of Pretoria’s (UP) TuksBaja engineering team has placed 13th in an online international competition in which 100 teams competed.

Newly graduated engineering twins plan to take music and motorsport worlds by storm

Posted on May 14, 2020

They may be non-identical twins, but when it comes to their biggest passions, Justin and Darren Oates (23) share identical interests in engineering, music and motorsport.

Engineering students fly UP flag high at intervarsity flight competition

Posted on October 25, 2019

Teams from UP’s Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and IT were awarded the Best University certificate in the 2019 Aeronautical Society of South Africa Intervarsity Flight Competition after they took first and third place.

The 3rd Technology and Innovation Conference 2019

Posted on October 23, 2019

On 16 October 2019, the University of Pretoria, in collaboration with Gerotek, Applus IDIADA and the CSIR hosted the 3rd Technology and Innovation Conference around the theme: “Automotive Development for Africa: Local Challenges and Technology solutions”.

TuksBaja team wins 2019 South Africa title in clash of self-made off-road vehicles

Posted on October 21, 2019

Baja SAE is an international engineering design competition in which students have to conceptualise, design, manufacture and test an off-road car that complies with strict safety rules

Four best paper awards at international heat transfer conference

Posted on October 07, 2019

Seven conference papers were recently presented by staff members and postgraduate students of the Clean Energy Research Group (CERG) in UP’s Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering. CERG is being led by Prof Josua Meyer who is also the Head of the Department of Mechanical...

UP professor proposes a new theory for understanding the universe that challenges Big Bang Theory

Posted on May 07, 2019

Professor Mohsen Sharifpur, an Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of Pretoria, has developed a new scientific theory that may hold the key to understanding the secrets of the early universe – as well as a perspective of the future of our universe.