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• WHAT IS REVERSE TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER?

  • I love reading books about cosmology and evolution. Authors such as Neil de Grasse Tyson, Richard Dawkins, Brian Cox and Richard Feynman are among my favorites. I pretend to understand some of the mathematics and struggle to understand some of the broader concepts. My unfortunate mind is not tuned to the philosophical and cosmological gymnastics ...more

• FOOD INNOVATION – OPEN, CLOSED, LEFT, RIGHT?

  • To be, or not to be, involved with open innovation? That is the question today! We all know that South African companies generally spend a tiny fraction of their budgets on R&D compared to international trends and figures. Also, sharing of information is sometimes inhibited (or prohibited) based on whom you work for and with whom ...more

• Agrifood Technology Station in Namibia - A Safari of Sorts

  • A delegation of four Technology Stations, headed by ATS, visited Namibian institutions and industries based on the signing of an accord between the National Commission on Research, Science & Technology (NCRST Namibia) and the Technology Innovation Agency (TIA) of South Africa, including the decision of TIA to increase its African footprint toward furthering collaboration and exchange in the ...more

• CONVERSATIONAL TOPICS in "THE CONVERSATION" No. 1

  • The Conversation has proven to be a hit….well, in my own academic and private life….and it has nothing to do with shooting an hallucinogenic substance. This digital platform has provided me with sharp and incisive articles on numerous topics, some having direct impact or input on my day job. It’s something akin to subscribing to Popular ...more

• EXCITING SENSORY ANALYSIS DEVELOPMENTS

  • As projects are completed and as new work is taken on, we are often confronted with new technical challenges, some big, some small. This is what makes working with the Station exciting and refreshing. There is always a degree of same old, same old…..but, there are always new challenges to keep us alive and young ...more

• Running a Technology Station is a balancing act!

  • Of course you have seen pictures of those intrepid tight-rope walkers! Well, a Station Manager in the Technology Innovation Agency stable of stations has a very similar job to do i.e. balancing a number of sometimes opposing forces BUT while juggling quite a number of balls in the air as well. Much more difficult, hey? ...more

• Physicist earns recognition

  • Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Computer Engineering Physicist, Dr Kessie Govender is thrilled to be selected to serve as a member of the National Working group to develop a framework for Quantum Computing and Technology research and innovation in South Africa (SA). This was announced recently by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) after a draft ...more

• Postgraduate Research Conference next month

  • The CPUT Postgraduate Research Conference 2019 is around the corner and it’s all systems go. The Centre for Postgraduate Studies (CPGS) will once again host the much-anticipated research activities of postgraduate students across faculties/units/centres and institutes on 7 November 2019 at the Saretec Building, Bellville Campus.  The Centre’s Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, Phaphama Mhlekwa, said the postgraduate students at ...more

• CPUT hosts Human Research Ethics Committee Workshop

  • CPUT recently hosted the 4th annual Human Research Ethics Committee Workshop. The event was hosted for the first time in 2016 by Stellenbosch University, with the purpose of bringing together the Human Research Ethics Committees of the region to discuss ethical matters and how ethics committees can or should handle them, said Dr Dirk Bester, Faculty Research Coordinator in the Faculty of Health ...more

• All systems go for SRC elections

  • Students are encouraged to take an active role in the upcoming SRC elections to ensure that their preferred candidates are elected and that the elected students represent the larger CPUT community. After consultations between the outgoing SRC and the Student Affairs Department it was agreed that the 2019 elections will take place on 17 and 18 October. As always, an Independent ...more

• Alumnus inspires students at Conference

  • Red Carnation Hotels Distribution Analyst and CPUT alumnus, Prince Ruben Chirwa encouraged Hospitality Management BTech students to be resilient in their course as there are many opportunities in the industry. Chirwa was the guest speaker at the department’s annual BTech Conference, held at the Granger Bay Campus. “We need more passionate, qualified hoteliers and leaders who have fresh innovative ideas, yet ...more

• Former Richard Sacco residents reunite

  • CPUT alumni relived memories of their student days during a recent weekend reunion in Nekkies Holiday Resort World in Worcester.   Seventy alumni who graduated between 1980 and 1989 at the then Peninsula Technikon and stayed at the iconic Richard Sacco Residence attended the four-day reunion. The residence was named after former technikon student, Richard Sacco. On the second day of ...more

• Celebrating teaching with technology

  • Discipline-specific approaches to support 21st Century students, as well as tools and technologies, are some of the subthemes that were used to unpack the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) at this year’s Learning and Teaching with Technology Day. Held on the Bellville campus, the day was organised by the Centre for Innovative Educational Technology under the theme, Unpacking ...more

• Reinventing SA universities for the future

  • A CPUT delegation attended the first-ever Universities South Africa (USAf) Higher Education conference held recently in Pretoria. The conference aimed to bring together stakeholders from various higher education institutions and government departments to explore creative ways to reconfigure the South African Higher Education landscape within the current rapid and ever-changing and developing environment. They were taking into ...more

• Libraries go cashless

  • CPUT Libraries aims to enable users to settle fines for late returns, fees for lost items and services such as binding and laminating by using technology seamlessly. Library manager: IT & Library Systems, Solomon Kapfunde, said the cashless system has been piloted at the Bellville Campus Library as from 2 October. During the pilot period, the library will not be accepting ...more

• Young leader making waves

  • A Public Relations student, with a passion for serving the community, was among a selected group of young people who formed the Young African Leaders Initiative Regional Leadership Center Southern Africa (YALI) 2019 cohort. As part of the programme, Mfiki Mdiyana recently spent four weeks in Pretoria with young leaders from 14 Southern African countries. The centre ...more

• Making international exchange a success

  • The Faculty of Business and Management Sciences recently welcomed this semester’s cohort of incoming international exchange students to CPUT and said their goodbyes to their CPUT counterparts who were jetting abroad. The Faculty’s Associate Dean, Ivan Van den Heever, urged the 22 incoming students from Europe to use their stay in Cape Town to take advantage of the city's tourist destinations ...more

• Bestselling author inspires

  • The author of the bestselling book Living Coloured, recently visited CPUT and encouraged the audience to write their own stories. “There’s no such thing as failure, only setbacks. Take the feedback and turn it into something positive, was the message from Yusuf Daniels to the CPUT community. He jokingly added: “And remember to ‘be lekker’”. Daniels signed autographs and answered ...more

• Caring for Students

  • Human trafficking and gender-based violence were among the topics tackled during the recent First Year Experience Symposium, organised by the Faculty of Health and Wellness Sciences. The programme included an interactive presentation by NPO, Stop Trafficking of People (STOP), who informed students about different types of human trafficking and danger signs to look out for. Speaker Melanie Marais, Head ...more

• Looking after our Health

  • CPUT Health Clinics recently hosted an informative Women’s Health Awareness event for staff and students. The aim was to inform, equip and empower women at CPUT about potential health risks. A general practitioner, Dr Zaitoon Valley, delivered a talk while the Cancer Association of SA provided information aimed at empowering and supporting women diagnosed with cancer. The event followed shortly after a ...more

• Dedicated Teacher Honoured

  • A dedicated teacher in the Emergency Medical Sciences Department (EMS) has been awarded the 2019 Faculty Teaching Excellence Award in the Faculty of Health and Wellness Sciences. Ryan Matthews, a lecturer and Year Coordinator for the third year of the Bachelor of Emergency Medical Care programme, says he didn’t enter CPUT thinking of himself as an educator “but education has ...more

• Innovative lecturer shines bright

  • Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering lecturer, Bronwyn Swartz, is celebrating after winning the Faculty Teaching Award in the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment and graduating with a DPhil Quality Management. In her research for her DPhil at Durban University of Technology, Swartz developed an Operational Excellence (OpEx) Model for South African pharmaceutical manufacturers. She specifically ...more

• Wellness day a winner

  • The Faculty of Informatics and Design showed its appreciation for non-academic staff with a Wellness Day recently. Staff were treated to a range of activities including a make-up demonstration, a talk on mental health and a self-defence demonstration before tucking into a delicious lunch. The event was organised by the Public Relations BTech part-time students. ...more

• Sports stars shine at Mini-Olympics

  • It was a week of fun and strong competition as student residences took each other through the paces on the fields of play during this year’s CPUT Mini-Olympics Tournament. The annual tournament, which was held recently on the Bellville Campus, saw Viljoenhof Residence beat Athlone Residence in the netball final match to lift the trophy. St Peters Residence ...more

• Drive for Success

  • Sports Management students learnt to play golf from passionate professionals at Swing Fit Golf Academy in Paarl during CPUT’s recent Golf Development Day. Juanita Stoop, Sports Management lecturer and the Day’s organiser, said the event was part of an initiative to give students an opportunity to be on a golf course and get golf lessons. “Golf ...more

• Unique decentralised conference at CPUT

  • A unique international conference on Design for Sustainability was recently hosted at SARETEC by CPUT in partnership with Stellenbosch University. The uniqueness of the conference lies in the fact that it was taking place simultaneously in six venues across the world. The conference called the LeNS World Decentralised Conference, took place in Cape Town, Beijing, Milan, ...more

• CPUT takes lead in new Rooibos trial

  • The Director of CPUT’s Oxidative Stress Research Centre, is leading a new trial which will investigate how green and traditional Rooibos herbal tea may modulate risk factors of cardiovascular diseases and support heart health. The 12-week human dietary intervention trial, under the leadership of Prof Jeanine Marnewick, will start in August. The Research Centre is situated within ...more

• Mechatronics students show their skills

  • A team of Mechatronics students recently won the bronze medal in the mobile robotics category of the WorldSkills South Africa competition, held in Durban. The competition, which is hosted by the Department of Higher Education and Training, took place in Durban. The training was sponsored and facilitated by the TIA Adaptronics Advanced Manufacturing Technology Laboratory as part ...more

• Heroes’ breakfast for CPUT rugby team

  • To acknowledge the achievements of the recently-crowned Varsity Shield winners, the CPUT management had breakfast with the university’s rugby team. CPUT beat Nelson Mandela University 32 – 28 in Port Elizabeth in the biggest comeback of the season which proved to be sweet revenge for an earlier loss against the Madibaz in the Round Robin stage ...more

• Technology transfer: how universities can harness research for real life

  • All over the world, universities produce vast quantities of research. A great deal of this has the potential to make a difference in people’s lives: through the creation of new businesses and jobs, for instance, or in the form of technology that brings innovations to health and wellness. But this potential isn’t automatically unlocked. This is ...more
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