South African Symposium on Metal Casting Technology
COLLABORATION: Delegates of the first South African Symposium on Metal Casting Technology
Monday, 01 December 2014
CPUT recently hosted the first South African Symposium on Metal Casting Technology.
The event, which took place at the Bellville Campus was organised by the Faculty of Engineering in cooperation with the University of Johannesburg and the South African Institute of Foundrymen.
The symposium provided a platform for researchers in the field of metal casting technology to share their research and technology and develop networks towards potential research and development partnerships.
This event was addressed by keynote speakers from partner universities based in Germany and Poland.
Members of the National Foundry Technology Network and the Technology Localisation Implementation Unit of the Department of Science and Technology based at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research also attended the event.
Dr Nawaz Mahomed, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, who was one of the speakers, stressed the importance of university-industry research partnerships in driving innovation and competing globally in the field of metal casting and other foundry-related applications.
Mahomed, who also leads the Foundry Technology Programme at CPUT, indicated that the development of a new generation of foundry engineers is crucial in realising the localisation of manufacture, especially on large capital expansion projects such as the rail transport and nuclear build programmes.
Five postgraduate students from CPUT also presented papers at the symposium.
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