Congratulations to Dr Melody Neaves, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, on being selected as a Fulbright South African...

SU and Ohm University Nürnberg Launch Cross-Cultural Sausage Research Project

Stellenbosch University (SU), Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering has embarked...

Earlier this month, Dr Andie de Villiers (SU Applied Mathematics), Dr Rudolph Venter (SU Institute for Biomedical Engineering), and Prof Martin Venter...

Last week, a team of four final-year classmates, Mia Ham, Thomas Kirby, Tariq De Klerk, and Johann Wahl had the privilege to participate in the inaugural IPMA...

Congratulations to the Recommended Engineering Education Practices (REEP) Research Group!

We are delighted to share that REEP has been honoured with the Team...

On Friday, 26 September 2025, Caledon District Hospital benefited from a maintenance intervention by students and staff from Mechanical & Mechatronic...

Ellen Letsogile Thipe is a PhD candidate in Mechanical Engineering at Stellenbosch University, supervised by Prof. J.E. Hoffmann and Prof. A.B. Sebitosi. She...

We are ecstatic to share Amo Shale our Masters student in Biomedical Engineering’s recent achievements and asked her to introduce herself to our broader...

Professor Seung Jin Song from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Seoul National University (SNU) in the Republic of Korea, recently spent two weeks...

Gerhard Durandt was awarded best presentation for his research paper at the South African Conference of Computational and Applied Mechanics 2025.

Gerhard Durandt...

Voigt Chair in Thermofluid Systems Modelling is one of three research Chairs currently in the Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering department.

The Voigt...

The curator of the South African Air Force (SAAF) Museum, Ysterplaat, Lt. Col. James du Toit, recently visited the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronic...

In May this year our rector, Prof Wim de Villiers sent an invitation to host an early-rise breakfast for twenty-five staff. He requested us to nominate a person...

The Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering Department is committed to excellence and diversity in our teaching and research. We achieve this through close...

Over 400 participants from 35 countries, 80 presentations and 100 posters in Graz on April 10-11. The ISEC conference was a great success, with Ministers from...

A successful first Stellenbosch University Green Hydrogen Symposium on 19 March at STIAS, highlights the Faculty of Engineering’s commitment towards firmly...

What’s happening in the sky?

The outreach project on the Elethu wine farm in Bonnievale involving learners from a local school is yielding fascinating results...

Shival Indermun had presented a paper at the BIOSTEC conference recently and was awarded the Best Student Paper Award in the Biodevices field.

“I had the...

Congratulations to our PhD candidate Francois Rozon.

Francois’s paper co-authored by Professors Craig McGregor and Michael Owen, titled ” Long-Term Forecasting...

“We have reached the halfway mark of our gap year successfully , and we are ready for the next.”
In March this year Wouter and Lindelize arrived in Konstanz...

In this interview we get to know Dr Boitumelo Ramatsetse better. We get to know his outstanding career path thus far and about his role in the Office of the...

This year our postgraduate course Solar Thermal Energy Systems (STES) took on a new and exciting format we hope to expand upon and build ongoing international...

In June we celebrate International Women in Engineering Day. The day was created by the Women’s Engineering Society and supported by UNESCO. The intention is to...

As a young boy Johan grew up all over South Africa. He received the most important part of his high school education in Villiersdorp in the Boland. His family...

Teamleader and legend in the M&M workshop

The mechanical workshop is an environment of high intensity, buzzing with the sounds and activities of casting...

I’m Kevin Neaves, Chief Technical Officer at the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering. One of my primary responsibilities is to run the...

Preyin Govender, a final year PhD Mechanical Engineering candidate (Material Engineering) received an invitation to the World PM 2022 Congress and Exhibition...

Genchi Genbutsu is a Japanese phrase that can be roughly translated as “go and see”. The phrase is credited to the creator of the Toyota Production System...

Johannes Koke is a professor of mechanical engineering. He specializes in especially process engineering at Osnabrueck University of Applied Sciences, located...

We congratulate our PhD candidate, Adam Venter, a most worthy recipient of the Rector’s Award for Social Impact.

Adam did both his BEng and MEng at M&M...

Recently, the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering and the Cape Chapter of the Aeronautical Society of South Africa hosted the UKZN’s Aerospace...

The invitation read “Join your fellow MATHackers on UCT campus for a late-night pizza party and get your code on!”

The group of three, Nicane September, Ryan...

Masters student, Waldo Wessels, builds a hybrid quadcopter

After proposing the research topic “Design, Build and Test a Quadcopter with a Novel Configuration for...

Bonnievale, a rural town in the picturesque Breede Valley of the Western Cape is where high school learners have built and installed a camera system for near...

Prof Craig McGregor of the Faculty of Engineering at Stellenbosch University (SU) has been selected as one of only two recipients of the University of St...

Grey skies and a passing thunderstorm did little to deter prospective students and their families from attending the Faculty of Engineering’s 2026 Open Day on...