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  • Exceptional academic performance 2013

    Posted on February 24, 2014

    Congratulations to the top Students in Mechanical and Aeronautical engineering for the year 2013

  • Prof Josua Meyer lauded at World Education Congress

    Posted on February 18, 2014

    Prof Josua Meyer, Chair of the School of Engineering and Head of the Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, has received an international award as Best Professor in Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering. Prof. Meyer is among the top 1%

  • UP shines at Solar Energy Conference

    Posted on February 03, 2014

    Lecturers and postgraduate students from UP made a valuable contribution to the Second South African Solar Energy Conference (SASEC), held in Port Elizabeth at the end of January 2014. The focus of the papers was on heat transfer aspects of heat exchanger

  • Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering Final Year Farewell Function

    Posted on December 10, 2013

    The Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering held its annual Final Year Function on 28 November in the Aula at the University of Pretoria. The event attracted an audience of approximately 650 people, consisting of Industry Representatives, St

  • Best Professor in Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering from UP

    Posted on December 03, 2013

    The Head of the Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of Pretoria, Prof Josua Meyer, has received an award by the World Education Congress as Best Professor in Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering.

  • Aeronautical Society of South Africa (AeSSA) intervarsity flight competition.

    Posted on December 02, 2013

    October 20th 2013 was the date set for the annual Aeronautical Society of South Africa (AeSSA) intervarsity flight competition. Great enthusiasm was shared by all the students tasked with the designing and building of a radio control (RC) aeroplane, as pa

  • MIT exchange students for 2014

    Posted on October 28, 2013

    Jean-Piere Theron and Raymond Jansen have been selected to study at MIT in 2014 as exchange students

  • Engineering student receives Eskom Chairman

    Posted on September 30, 2013

    Marilize Everts received the University Award (Open Category) at the Eskom Chairman

  • F16 modified into a drone

    Posted on September 30, 2013

    An F16 fighter was modified to be a drone controlled by two US Air Force pilots located at a ground control facility

  • Exceptional Achievers Award

    Posted on May 02, 2013

    Take note that the University of Pretoria has made awards to academic staff members as exceptional achievers and Prof Josua Meyer received one of the awards.

  • Solar thermal power generation using the Brayton cycle

    Posted on April 12, 2013

    South Africa is the perfect country to go for solar energy.

  • AeSSA Lecture

    Posted on March 01, 2013

    AeSSA presents "The Waterborne Ground Effect Aircraft & The Design, Construction of a Transonic Wind tunnel"

  • 2012 Top Students

    Posted on February 26, 2013

    Congratulations to the top Students in Mechanical and Aeronautical engineering for the year 2012

  • Tuks wins again the RC flight Competition

    Posted on November 09, 2012

    On Saturday the 27th of October the Aeronautical Society of South Africa (AeSSA) hosted the annual intervarsity RC model competition at Zwartkop Air Force base

  • Overall first place for Tuks Baja

    Posted on October 24, 2012

    Tuks Baja has won the BAJA SAE South African Competition at Gerortek which took place on 19th and 20th October.

  • Can-Can Road Profiler

    Posted on October 15, 2012

    Tuks VDG is currently in the final development stages of a road profiler called the Can-Can Machine

  • UP Spring Day 2012 Potjie Competition

    Posted on September 14, 2012

    Unbelievable this year the Mechanical and Aeronautical engineers are the Potjie Competition winners for the best theme and d

  • MIT Exchange for 2013

    Posted on September 13, 2012

    The Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering would like to congratulate Herman Straus and Elsmari Wium who have been selected to study at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) in 2013 as exchange students.

  • VDG presents at SACAM 2012

    Posted on September 07, 2012

    Mr Theunis Botha and Ms Anria Strydom presented papers at the 8th South African Conference on Computational and Applied Mechanics held in Johannesburg from 3 to 5 September 2012. Prof Schalk Els (VDG group leader) also chaired a track at the conference.

  • VDG representatives at ASME conference in Chicago

    Posted on September 07, 2012

    Three representatives of the Vehicle Dynamics Group (VDG) of the University of Pretoria travelled to the USA to present papers at the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference held in

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