Engineering Industry News

 Nokukhanya@varsitytv.co.za  Twitter: @nokhumanjoms August is of course women's month, and what better way to celebrate then women empowering each other.  The South African Institute of electrical Engineers (SAIEE) held a function of which was hosted Michelle Govender a professional engineer who works for ESKOM holdings and is a member of SAIEE, explained how women must work twice as harder than men, how you must always strive for the top and always be productive if they are in male dominated industry.  Co-host Tshegofatso Cornelius also touched base on the 1956 march against unjust laws by women who marched to the Pretoria Union Buildings and helped established women as part of the apartheid democratic movement. Each of the women shared the struggles they are faced with today and how they overcome such predicaments, it was shared how helpful it is to have these kind of event to boost their self-esteem and motivate the next generation as  the ...

                  Nokukhanya@varsitytv.co.za Twitter: @nokhumanjoms The SAICE Avant-garde forum means the grouping that is primarily involved with the advancement of its field of expertise, mainly through the unorthodox or experimental methods. The forum showcases young professionals giving an overview of the projects that they are involved in, with the focus of the presentation looking at what they contributed for the project to become a  success. Which is what happened in August the forum had a group of professionals and took a look on a variety of projects presented by of-course young  professional who put in the work and share their walks also take  questions from the attendees. Presentations were delivered by the likes of Sbongile Gumbi who is an environmental scientist, Kirsten Milne a civil engineer by profession and Sisanda Dyubhele a technologist in pavement design. Subcribe on YouTube (SAICE JHB tv) and wa...

  Nokukhanya@varsitytv.co.za      Twitter: @nokhumanjoms South African Institution of Civil Engineering ( SAICE) and   Lafarge cement, talk about the  production of cement and the impact of concrete durability. Riaan Visser (road infrastructure for Lafarge ) who gave the lecture today, distinguished the different cements and its particular uses, really "enjoyed the group today, we had a wide variety of attendees, we had a very responsive group and I enjoyed some of the questions". Attendee Masingita Manana who is by profession a civil engineer, that works with the development of the housing projects particularly RDP's, stated that talks like these are; "informative and help her a lot when she goes back to her day to day job".