As a young boy Johan grew up all over South Africa. He received the most important part of his high school education in Villiersdorp in the Boland. His family home …
Teamleader and legend in the M&M workshop The mechanical workshop is an environment of high intensity, buzzing with the sounds and activities of casting, machining, grinding, and drawing. It is …
I’m Kevin Neaves, Chief Technical Officer at the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering. One of my primary responsibilities is to run the mechatronics laboratory, this includes the setup and …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Preyin Govender, a final year PhD Mechanical Engineering candidate (Material Engineering) received an invitation to the World PM 2022 Congress and Exhibition. The conference was held in Lyon, France from …
We congratulate our PhD candidate, Adam Venter, a most worthy recipient of the Rector’s Award for Social Impact. Adam did both his BEng and MEng at M&M Engineering department …
Johannes Koke is a professor of mechanical engineering. He specializes in especially process engineering at Osnabrueck University of Applied Sciences, located in the north-western part of Germany. He is currently …
Masters student, Waldo Wessels, builds a hybrid quadcopter After proposing the research topic “Design, Build and Test a Quadcopter with a Novel Configuration for Endurance Flights” for a fifth year, …
