| Employability improvement programme launched yesterday |
Tuesday, March 09 2010 |
| “Statistics report that the number of unemployed people in South Africa stands at 4.165 million – terrifying indeed,” said Isaac Tlhabadira of the Centre for Advanced Manufacturing, who addressed students of the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment attending the launch of the Fourth Employability Improvement Training Project at the Pretoria Campus, yesterday |
| Phaphama Tshisikhawe |
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| Recruitment off with a bang |
Tuesday, March 02 2010 |
| Whilst first-year students are still trying to find their feet, recruitment of new students for 2011 is already in full swing. Faculty marketers and TUT's recruitment team are taking part in this year’s Perfect Life SA school's career days which kicked off at the Hatfield Christian School on 3 February. |
| Mario Smit |
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| Postgraduate students honoured for published papers in journals |
Tuesday, March 02 2010 |
| “Success through perseverance” – three postgraduate students of the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment have proved that hard work never kills anyone – it only makes you prosper. They were honoured at an award function for successfully publishing eleven papers in journals, on Wednesday 24 February. |
| Phaphama Tshisikhawe |
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| Learning made easier for Telecommunications students |
Monday, February 01 2010 |
| The Department of Telecommunications recently extended its hand by supplying students on their first day with a complete parcel of necessities needed to master Telecommunications II. |
| Phaphama Tshisikhawe |
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| Fun Day for foundation students |
Friday, January 29 2010 |
| The Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment extended programme students had a morning of fun, laughter and excitement during a Fun Day which took place at the soccer field on Friday, 29 January 2010. |
| Phaphama Tshisikhawe |
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| Engineering Dean wants all his staff to live Faculty’s vision |
Thursday, January 21 2010 |
| The new year’s resolution of the leadership of the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment is for every staff member of the Faculty to live its vision. On Monday, 25 January 2010, all academic and support staff will join in a two-day-long workshop, called Pamoja (togetherness), to give effect to the Faculty’s vision of being a leading faculty at the cutting edge of innovation that provides relevant quality-driven professional career education of an international standard. |
| GERRIT BESTER |
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| Jobs galore at job fest |
Friday, November 27 2009 |
| It was jobs galore at the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering and the Build Environment’ first ever Job Fest hosted at the Pretoria Campus recently. |
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| Students’ lights shine brightly in magazine |
Thursday, November 19 2009 |
| Students enrolled for the new Three-Dimensional Design programme offered by the Department of Mechanical Engineering are flying the Department’s flag high. Three of its shining stars are semi-finalists in the House and Leisure Green Designers at Woolworths competition. |
| Gerrit Bester |
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| From cleaner to prosperous businessman |
Monday, November 09 2009 |
| From a cleaner to prosperous businessman. This is the story of the 35-year-old Edward Moshole, a former cleaner at Enterprise Food, whose life changed completely through the development of cleaning products by the University’s Technology Station in Chemicals (TSC) at the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, Ga-Rankuwa Campus. |
| Matlhodi Chauke |
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| ABSA donates generously to Engineering Stepping Initiative |
Friday, November 06 2009 |
| ABSA has reaffirmed its partnership with the University by donating R90 000 towards the Engineering Stepping Initiative run by the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Nelspruit Campus. |
| Gerrit Bester |
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| Architecture students show what they are made of |
Thursday, October 22 2009 |
| Franco Enrico, an Architecture student, and his lecturer, Peet Wolmarans, will be jetting off to Israel, home of Caesarstone, after scooping the first prize in the second Caesarstone Design Award competition at a recent event in the Hyatt Hotel in Johannesburg. |
| Phaphama Tshisikhawe |
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| Engineering names its top achievers |
Friday, October 16 2009 |
| The Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment awarded 38 top National Diploma students and 24 B Tech top achievers at its Academic Colours Awards on Friday, 16 October. |
| Andries Maake and Zelda Janse van Rensburg |
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| Two students receive Mandela Rhodes Scholarships |
Friday, October 09 2009 |
| Yannick Kala Konga, a B Tech: Electrical Engineering student, and Comfort Bathabile Ndala, a B Tech: Operations Management student, have been awarded scholarships for 2010 by the Mandela Rhodes Scholarships Programme. They intend to study M Tech: Electrical Engineering and M Tech: Operations Management, respectively.
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| Gilbert Mokwatedi |
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| Yannick, Best Electrical Engineering student in SA |
Thursday, October 08 2009 |
| The Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment boasts the achievement of Yannick Kala-Konga, a B Tech: Electrical Engineering student, who was named winner of the Eskom Excellence awards, where he competed with students from other universities of technology. He is now referred to as South Africa’s “student guru” in Electrical Engineering/Telecommunications.
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| Students strut their machinery in the Junk Yard Challenge |
Wednesday, October 07 2009 |
| The Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment brought together its students to participate in a Junk Yard Challenge that took place at the Pretoria Campus swimming pool before last term’s recess.
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| Andries Maake and Phaphama Tshisikhawe |
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| ECSA accreditation visit outcome |
Monday, September 07 2009 |
| The Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment was recently visited by a panel from the Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA), who also gave feedback on the outcome of their investigations that took place from 1 September to Friday, 4 September 2009. |
| Phaphama Tshisikhawe |
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| FIRST LEGO league to launch |
Saturday, August 29 2009 |
| The Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment will host the launch of the FIRST LEGO League Robotics Competition 2009 for learners at the Prestige Auditorium, Pretoria Campus, on Saturday, 29 August. |
| Phaphama Tshisikhawe |
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| What is Brazilia’s recipe for academic success |
Wednesday, August 05 2009 |
| Academic collaboration and partnerships with higher education institutions across the globe play a vital role in increasing the academic reputation of universities and universities of technology. |
| Willa de Ruyter |
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| Engineering students strut their stuff at WorldSkills Competition |
Wednesday, July 01 2009 |
| Four students of the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment were among a group of students that represented TUT in the WorldSkills competition held at the Pretoria Campus on 11 and 12 June. Leroy Justin Smith and Wessel du Plessis entered the Mechatronics category, while Buks Coetzee and Bathabile Motsepe represented the institution in the Robotics category. Students from the Cape Peninsula University of Technology and the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University also took part in the competition. |
| Phaphama Tshisikhawe |
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| The "revelation machine" |
Thursday, June 18 2009 |
| The "revelation machine" is a vehicle designed and built by students at TUT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. In October last year it did TUT proud when it won the endurance category in the South African national Baja race. It took six months of designing, three months of manufacturing, 18 hours of testing and 4 185 hours of hard work for a wonderful four-hour race.
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| Building Sciences visited by accreditation team |
Thursday, June 11 2009 |
| The Department of Building Sciences was recently visited by a panel from the South African Council for Quantity Surveying Professionals (SACQSP). They were accompanied by an observer group consisting of members of the South African Construction Management Council, South African Construction Project Management Council, Chartered Institute of Building, and the Association of Schools of Construction of South Africa. |
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| Future engineers will benefit from donation |
Tuesday, May 26 2009 |
| The training of Electrical Engineering students in the field of Process Instrumentation will be taken to a new level with the donation of Siemens LOGO training equipment to the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, yesterday, Wednesday, 29 April. In future, students will be trained on the equipment, which is said already to have more than a million installations residentially, commercially and industrially, among others.
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| Gerrit Bester |
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| Week of Bounty |
Tuesday, May 26 2009 |
| The Engineering Foundation Unit has partnered TUT's neighbouring communities of Danville and Booysens to participate in the Week of Bounty from Sunday, 24 May to 31 May 2009. This annual initiative encourages people to donate unused goods from their homes and businesses to assist and uplift needy people in this area. |
| Phaphama Tshisikhawe |
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| It’s adapt or die in Germany, says lecturer |
Tuesday, May 26 2009 |
| Braam Visser (34), a lecturer at the Department of Electrical Engineering, is the first staff member to participate in the Nuffic capacity building programme. Braam left South Africa on 1 February for the University of Aachen in Germany, where he has already started with his doctorate. |
| Zelda van Rensburg |
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| Once again engineering competition did not disappoint |
Wednesday, May 20 2009 |
| Learners from John Vorster Technical High School each took home a Lexmark 3 in 1 printer after being placed first in the Electrical Engineering competition to design and build a microbug that was organised and sponsored by the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment. The prizes were sponsored by Pinnacle Micro-computers.
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| Schools to show who’s best in engineering |
Friday, May 15 2009 |
| Fifteen schools in Pretoria will once again take on each other in a competition organised and sponsored by the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, to be held on the TUT rugby field, Pretoria Campus, from 08:00 to 12:00 on Friday, 15 May 2009.
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| Prof Snyman and students stimulate local electronics industry |
Friday, April 24 2009 |
| The Department of Electrical Engineering takes pride in the development of new electronic devices in their new Laboratory for Innovative Electronic Systems. These products can prevent power cuts, tighten security, provide clean water, supplement Eskom power with solar energy, and can do smart sensing and processing by means of optics on chip.
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