by host | May 14, 2021 | home-page-bottom-news, only-on-the-news-page, Uncategorized
11 August 1969 – 20 March 2021 It is with great sadness that we learnt of the passing of Fellow Tania Douglas on 20 March 2021 following a courageous battle with breast cancer. She was aged just 51. At the time of her death, Tania was a professor at the University of...
by host | Feb 25, 2021 | CAETS, home-page-bottom-news, only-on-the-news-page, Slidder-news-at-the-top
The CAETS Communications Committee has established two annual CAETS Communications Prizes recognising the best short videos from member academies in the following two categories Engineering Success Stories. This category would be based on the work of established...
by host | Feb 25, 2021 | CAETS, home-page-bottom-news, only-on-the-news-page
The 2020 CAETS Convocation, which was scheduled to take place in June 2020 but had to be postponed due to the Corona virus pandemic, was hosted by the National Academy of Engineering of Korea in Seoul from 12 to 15 October 2020. The theme was Engineering a better...
by host | Feb 25, 2021 | home-page-bottom-news, only-on-the-news-page
1 November 1931 – 17 January 2021 Water Engineer Extraordinaire It was with great sadness that we learnt that Fellow Theo van Robbroeck had succumbed to Covid-19 in the early hours of 17 January 2021, only eleven days after the passing of his beloved wife, Irma,...
by host | Feb 25, 2021 | home-page-bottom-news, only-on-the-news-page
1946 – 2021 Emeritus Fellow Nape Maepa died in America on 4 February 2021. He left South Africa in 1965 to study in the USA. He obtained BSc and MSc degrees in Electrical Engineering and started his career as Substation Engineer with Indiana & Michigan...
by host | Feb 25, 2021 | home-page-bottom-news, only-on-the-news-page
Dr Rob Adam presented the Annual Academy Lecture on 24 February 2021 online from the University of Cape Town. The topic of the lecture was “Technology, policy and politics: critical success factors in high-technology infrastructure projects”. Dr Adam is a Fellow of...
