Busy year ahead for Optentia

The Optentia Research Focus Area on the Vanderbijlpark Campus of the North-West University (NWU Vaal) already has a full schedule planned for the first quarter of 2017.

Various international visitors will be hosted by Optentia within the coming months:

Prof. Marco Hessels from the University of Geneva in Switzerland will be…

NWU student wins competition with electronic cupcake piper design

Brinco Neethling, an Engineering student at the Potchefstroom Campus of the North-West University (NWU), won the  SAIEE National student competition for his design of an electronic cupcake piper. The South African Institute for Electronic Engineers (SAIEE) host this annual competition to give up and coming electronic engineers…

Prestigious Royal Society inducts NWU professor

Prof Chaundry M Khalique, from the International Institute for Symmetry Analysis and Mathematical Modelling on the Mahikeng Campus of the North-West University (NWU),  has recently been inducted as one of three 2016 fellows of the prestigious Royal Society of South Africa.

The Royal Society of South Africa, founded in 1908, is an…