General News

The Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering Department is committed to excellence and diversity in our teaching and research. We achieve this through close collaboration and interaction with our various stakeholders and 
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Over 400 participants from 35 countries, 80 presentations and 100 posters in Graz on April 10-11. The ISEC conference was a great success, with Ministers from Austria and Brazil alongside 
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A successful first Stellenbosch University Green Hydrogen Symposium on 19 March at STIAS, highlights the Faculty of Engineering’s commitment towards firmly establishing SU as a leading research-intensive institution. “Stellenbosch University 
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What’s happening in the sky? The outreach project on the Elethu wine farm in Bonnievale involving learners from a local school is yielding fascinating results. In our preceding article “Bonnievale 
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Shival Indermun had presented a paper at the BIOSTEC conference recently and was awarded the Best Student Paper Award in the Biodevices field. “I had the privilege of presenting my 
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“We have reached the halfway mark of our gap year successfully , and we are ready for the next.” In March this year Wouter and Lindelize arrived in Konstanz, Southern 
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This year our postgraduate course Solar Thermal Energy Systems (STES) took on a new and exciting format we hope to expand upon and build ongoing international collaboration. Professor Craig McGregor, Research Group Director (STERG) and 
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Genchi Genbutsu is a Japanese phrase that can be roughly translated as “go and see”. The phrase is credited to the creator of the Toyota Production System, Taiichi Ohno. Mr Ohno 
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The invitation read “Join your fellow MATHackers on UCT campus for a late-night pizza party and get your code on!”   The group of three, Nicane September, Ryan Hansen and 
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Recently, the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering and the Cape Chapter of the Aeronautical Society of South Africa hosted the UKZN’s Aerospace Systems Research Group (ASReG) for a presentation of their 
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