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Rupert

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Prof Rupert Gouws is presently a full professor in the School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering at the North-West University (NWU), Potchefstroom. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. After completion of his studies, he joined a company Energy Cybernetics where he was involved with energy audits, measurement and verification activities and energy related research activities. He received an Institutional Teaching Excellence Award from the NWU and was involved in various undergraduate modules for all year groups. Apart from lecturing, he also mentors students that are busy with their Master’s studies, PhD studies and Postdoctoral fellowships. He specialises in the fields of electrical energy management, electrical energy efficiency, electrical machines - energy optimization, and power electronics - energy optimization. He currently has a National Research Foundation (NRF) rating status of Established Researcher. He has authored and co-authored more than 100 publications in peer-reviewed international journals and peer-reviewed international conference proceedings. He received awards for the most productive junior and senior researcher within the NWU Faculty of Engineering. He is active on research evaluation panels for various international journals and serve as external examiner for various institutions. He has an established network of partners within the university, local industries, and international collaborators. He acted as a member of the Faculty Board of the Faculty of Engineering at the NWU as well as a member of the Research Entities Evaluation Committee of the NWU. The Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA) registered him as a Professional Engineer (Pr.Eng) and the Association of Energy Engineers (AEE) certified him as a Certified Measurement and Verification Professional (CMVP). Furthermore, he holds membership with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers (SAIEE).

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Building N1A, Room 201, Engineering Campus, Potchefstroom

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Werner Heinrich Kaiser

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Werner Kaiser is currently a full-time senior lecturer at the School of Mechanical engineering at the North-West University. He has been invlolved in Engineering educatgion since 1998 and has lectured various courses in thermal fluid science, Mechanics of machines, Computer aided drawing at the North-West Unviersity and the Tshwane University of Technology. He has worked for 5 years in industry, where was involved in Energy management projects as well as being a test engineer for the PBMR high-pressure test bench. During this time he gained valuable experience in test procedures as well as energy management projects. HE is currently focusing on the application of high-temperature heat pumps for industrial applications.

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Room G15 , Building G15B
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(018) 299-1319

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George van Schoor

PERTUNIA THULO — Thu, 07 Aug 2014 12:19:36 +0000

George van Schoor PERTUNIA THULO Thu, 08/07/2014 - 14:19

School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering

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George van Schoor was born in Cape Town, South Africa on November 13, 1963. He received the B Eng, M.Eng and D.Eng degrees in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the Rand Afrikaans University (RAU), South Africa in 1985, 1987 and 2001 respectively.

He worked in industry in the field of power electronics for 9 years before joining the Programme Group Engineering at Technikon SA (the now UNISA), South Africa where he managed the Programme: Electrical Engineering from 1996 to June 2001. In July 2001 he accepted a position as Professor at the Potchefstroom University (the now North-West University), South Africa in the School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering. From 2006 he was appointed in the position of director: Unit for Energy Systems. In 2012 he is appointed in the position of Research Professor. His research interests are in the fields of modeling and control, magnetic bearings and power electronics. In 2005 he founded the Magnetic Bearing – Modelling and Control research group in the Faculty of Engineering. The group has since been renamed McTronX after the field of mechatronics.

In the period 2003 to 2012 George delivers 38 Masters’ students and 6 PhD students as main supervisor and 4 Masters’ and 1 PhD as co-supervisor. He has authored and co-authored 24 peer-reviewed conference papers, 24 accredited journal papers and one book chapter.

Dr. van Schoor is a Member of the IEEE and a registered Professional Engineer with the Engineering Council of South Africa. In 2002, 2011 and 2012 he receives best paper awards from the the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers’ Transactions and the Africa Research Journal respectively.

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North-West University (NWU)
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Hoffmann Street
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(018) 299 1962

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(018) 299 1977

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L.J. Grobler

PERTUNIA THULO — Thu, 07 Aug 2014 10:31:11 +0000

L.J. Grobler PERTUNIA THULO Thu, 08/07/2014 - 12:31

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L.J

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Prof. L.J. Grobler is a professor in Mechanical Engineering at the North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa, and was appointed as dean of the Faculty of Engineering in 2012. Apart from lecturing, he also mentors students that are busy with their Master and PhD Studies. He has authorized or co-authored more than 60 articles on energy related issues in local and international journals and presented or co-presented more than 80 papers at local and international conferences. He also serves on the Technical Committee of the International Performance Measurement and Verification Protocol (IPMVP). In 2009 he has been elected to the Council of Measurement and Verification Professionals South Africa (CMVPSA).

Prof. Grobler is Director of Energy Cybernetics, a company specializing in delivering energy solution services. He has personally performed more than 50 industrial and commercial energy audits. He serves on the steering committee responsible for developing the Measurement and Verification (M&V) methodologies and procedures to Measure and Verify the impact of Eskom's Demand Side Management (DSM) program.
He has been active in the energy field for the past 18 years and has been a member of the Association of Energy Engineers (AEE) since 1997. LJ held the title as President of the Association of Energy Engineers (AEE) in the United States of America for the 2008/2009 office term.
L.J. is also the head of ExtruAfrica, an initiative of the Centre of Excellence in Advanced Manufacturing at the North-West University in Potchefstroom, South Africa. ExtruAfrica comprises of the organising of general extrusion workshops, specialised training seminars and annual international extrusion conference and training seminar.

The Centre of Excellence in Advanced Manufacturing realised that a need exists for industry role players to obtain information on the latest technology, share knowledge and network with experts and peers. Extrusion is one of the most energy efficient and environmentally-friendly processes to produce pre-cooked ready-to-eat products. Extrusion has wide applications in the food, feed, powder paint and plastics industries. There are numerous opportunities in the market for the development and marketing of extruded products. The potential of using extrusion to add value to products is largely untapped in Africa.

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North-west University
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018 299 1533

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018 299 1529

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Kenny Uren

PERTUNIA THULO — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 10:24:05 +0000

Kenny Uren PERTUNIA THULO Wed, 08/06/2014 - 12:24

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Kenny

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Kenny Uren is an associate professor in the School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering. He specialises in the fields of mathematical systems modelling and control theory. He received the B. Eng., M. Eng. and PhD degrees in Electronic and Computer Engineering from the North-West University, Potchefstroom campus, South Africa in 2003, 2005 and 2009 respectively. Kenny is a member of the McTronX research group that has a core focus on mathematical modelling, mechatronic systems and control theory.

Currently his research focuses on energy-based modelling and control of large-scale industrial systems. This entails the development of modelling methodologies based on graph theory, port-Hamiltonian systems and differential geometry. Complex large-scale systems introduce unique challenges such as system nonlinearities and multi-domain physics. These challenges also poses new and interesting research problems in terms of control system design. Currently it has been shown that by considering components of systems as energy manipulation mechanisms, large-scale systems can be modelled and controlled by using the unifying concept of energy.

Prof. Uren is an Y-rated researcher and is registered with the Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA) as a Professional Engineer. He is also a member of the IEEE, SAIEE, SAIMC and an EXCO member of the South African Council of Automation and Control (SACAC). The SACAC is a member organisation of the International Federation of Automatic Control.

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