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Faculty of Engineering & the Built Environment
is arguably the most sophisticated engines laboratory
undertaking fuels research in the country. A number
of smaller research groupings focus on areas such as
advanced manufacturing, aeronautics, orthopaedics,
composite materials engineering, computational
fluid dynamics, engineering education, engineering
management, fracture and fatigue, non-destructive
testing and robotics.
Departmental Statistics
Permanent and long-term contract staff
(excluding research officers)
Professors
5
Adjunct Professors
2
Emeritus Professor
1
Honorary Professor
1
Associate Professors
6
Senior Lecturers
8
Lecturers
2
Part-time Lecturer
2
Academic Development Lecturer
1
Teaching Assistants
8
Technical Support Staff
11
Administrative and Clerical Staff
3
Workshop Apprentices
3
Total
55
Students
Postdoctoral
2
PG Diploma
5
Doctoral
25
Occasional – Non degree UG
34
Occasional – Non degree PG
1
Master’s
127
Honours
17
Undergraduate
627
Total
838
Research Fields and Staff
Professor Kevin Bennett
Director, Energy Research Centre; Energy research.
Ms Tracy Booysen
Chief Scientific Officer; Electro Mechanical engineering,
robotics and agents.
Associate Professor Brandon Collier-Reed
Director of the Centre for Research in Engineering
Education (CREE); the sociocultural characterization of
the student experience; social aspects of technology;
technological literacy of adolescents; podcasting in
engineering education.
Mr Trevor Cloete
Senior Lecturer; BISRU, CERECAM; deformation and
tearing of blast loaded metal plates; high strain rate
plasticity; constitutive modeling.
Mr Dirk Findeis
Senior Lecturer; non-destructive testing; portable ESPI
and shearography.
Dr Wim Fuls
Senior Lecturer; Centre of specialisation in energy
efficiency; power plant process flow modelling
Dr Reuben Govender
Senior Lecturer; BISRU; high strain rate material
characterisation; composite materials; blast and impact
loading of structures and materials.
Emeritus Professor Jasson Gryzagoridis
CERECAM; heat transfer and refrigeration; combined
absorption and compression refrigeration cycles; optical
techniques in non-destructive testing; holographic
interferometry; ESPI; shearography; materials properties
evaluation.
Mr Ernesto Ismail
Lecturer; BISRU, CERECAM; meshless methods, non-linear
elasticity.
Adjunct Professor Louis Jestin
Power Generation systems design and operation
Professor Dora Karagiozova
Honorary Professor; BISRU; analytical and computational
analysis of dynamic systems.
Associate Professor Franz-Josef Kahlen
Lean/advanced manufacturing; laser materials processing;
laser diagnostics.
Dr Bruce Kloot
Academic Development Lecturer; sociology of education;
higher education studies; foundation and extended
curriculum programmes; student success and progression.
Associate Professor Ramesh Kuppuswamy
Advanced manufacturing; micro/nano systems.
Professor Robert Knutsen
Deputy Head of Department; Director, Centre for Materials
Engineering; physical metallurgy; thermo-mechanical
processing; texture; microstructure; microscopy.
Associate Professor Genevieve Langdon
BISRU; CREE; blast response of structures and materials;
high strain rate behaviour; structural impact.