Staff in the Department of Civil Engineering

Lecturing Staff

   

Head of Department

PrEng  MEng, PhD(Pretoria)
 
Office: 11-7 Engineering 1
 
Secretary: Hayley Boks ([email protected])
 

 

Fields of interest

  • Pavement Engineering
  • Vibration testing
  • Full scale testing

 

BEng (Civil) PhD
 
Office: 12-5 Engineering 1
 

Fields of interest

  • Construction Materials
  • Cement-based materials
  • Fibre reinforced concrete
  • Time-dependant behaviour
  • Environmental Friendly construction materials

 

 
 
PrEng, MEng(Pretoria), PhD(Southampton),      FSAICE
 
Office: 13-7 Engineering 1
 

 

   

Fields of interest

  • Railways
  • Pavement Engineering
  • Geotechnical Engineering
  • Physical modelling
 
PrEng MEng PhD(Surrey) MSAICE
 
Office: 11-18 Engineering 1
 

   

Fields of interest

  • Geotechnical Engineering
  • Geotechnical laboratory testing
  • Geotechnical field testing
 
PrEng MEng, PhD(Cantab) MSAICE
 
Office: 11-9 Engineering 1
 

 

Fields of interest

  • Geotechnical Engineering
  • Physical modelling
  • Measuring techniques
  • Centrifuge testing
  • Full scale testing
 
Ms K Jansen van Rensburg
BEng(Civil), BEng(Hons) 
 
Office: 12-14 Engineering 1
 

 

Fields of interest

  • Environmental Engineering
  • Construction methods and management

Prof EP Kearsley

PrEng MEng PhD(Leeds) FSAICE FSAAE
   
Office: 11-16 Engineering 1
 
 

Fields of interest:

  • Laboratory testing
  • Measuring techniques
  • Full scale testing
  • Structural Engineering
  • Pavement Engineering
  • Building Materials

 

BEng (Civil) MEng 
   
Office: 12-20 Engineering 1
 

   

Fields of interest

  • Water Engineering
 
   
BSc (Civil)(Dar es Salaam), PhD (Miyazaki)
 
Office: 13-5 Engineering 1
 
 
 

   

Fields of interest

  • Pavement Engineering
  • Mathematical modelling and numerical analysis
  • Physical modelling
  • Full scale testing and instrumentation
  • Geotechnical Engineering
PrEng (ETEK), BSc, MSc, PhD (NTUA)

Office: 12-16 Engineering 1
 

Fields of interest

  • Finite Element Method
  • Earthquake Engineering
  • Soil-Structure Interaction
  • Modeling of Newly Immersed Materials
  • Retrofitting of Structures
  • Mesh Generation
  • Fluid-structure Interaction
  • Dynamic Mesh Update Techniques
 
PrEng BEng(Stell) MS PhD(Cornell) FSAICE

Office: 12-7 Engineering 1
 

 

Fields of interest

  • Structural engineering
  • Structural reliability
  • Earthquake engineering and dynamic analysis
  • Finite element analysis
  • Mathematical modelling

 

 
BEng(Civil), BEng(Hons), MEng, PhD Candidate

Office: 12-15 Engineering 1
 

 

Fields of interest

  • Water engineering
  • Hydropower generation
  • Numerical modelling
  • System optimization

 

 
D.T.O Education (Potch), MSc (Potch),       PhD (Pretoria) 

Office: 12-17 Engineering 1
 

 

Fields of interest

  • Mathematical modelling
  • Structural Engineering
 
Prof E Rust 
PrEng MEng PhD(Surrey) FSAICE

Office: 11-21 Engineering 1
 

 

Fields of interest

  • Geotechnical Engineering
  • Instrumentation Design
  • Geotechnical Investigation
 
BEng(Civil), BEng(Hons), MEng, PhD Candidate 

Office: 12-19 Engineering 1 
 

 

Fields of interest

  • Water Engineering
  • Hydrology
 
MEng PrEng CEng MIStructE 

Office: 12-9 Engineering 1 
 

 

Fields of interest

  • Structural Engineering
  • Mathematical modelling
  • Steel Design
 
PhD Candidate 

Office: 12-12 Engineering 1 
 

 

Fields of interest

  • Pavement Engineering
  • Numerical Modelling
  • Concrete Technology
  • Statistical Design of Experiments
 
BEng(Civil), BEng(Hons), MEng, MSAICE

Office: 12-18 Engineering 1 
 

 

Fields of interest

  • Water engineering
  • Hydropower generation
  • System optimization
  • Water pipelines and networks
 
BEng (Mechanical), MEng

Office: 12-26 Engineering 1 
  Fields of interest

 

Prof C Venter

MEng(Pretoria) PhD(University of California, Berkeley), MSAICE, Pr.Eng

Office: 13-9 Engineering 1 

E-mail: [email protected]

 

 

Fields of interest

  • Transportation Engineering
  • Transportation planning and data
  • Land use and transport interactions
  • Travel behaviour research, modelling
  • Public transport planning and operations


 

Retired Staff

   
PrEng MEng PhD(Pretoria) MSAICE
 
Office: 12-5 Engineering 1
 

   

Fields of interest:

  • Structural Engineering
  • Mathematical modelling
  • Building Materials
  • Physical modelling
  • Full scale testing

 

PrEng MEng PhD (WITS) MSAICE
 
Office: 12-26 Engineering 1 
E-mail: [email protected]
 

 

Fields of interest

  • Structural Engineering
  • Mathematical modelling
  • Steel Design
 
PrEng MEng PhD(Pretoria) DipTertEd(Pretoria)     MSAICE 

Office: 12-26 Engineering 1
 

 

Fields of interest

 
PrEng MScEng MSc(Struc) (Southhampton) PhD(Pretoria) FSAICE MIWSc

Office: 12-7 Engineering 1 
 

 

Fields of interest

  • Structural Engineering

 

Prof SJ van Vuuren

PrEng MEng  MBA PhD(Pretoria) FSAICE MASCE MIMIESA 

Office: 12-21 Engineering 1 

E-mail: [email protected]

 

 

Fields of interest

  • Hydrology
  • Physical modelling
  • Mathematical modelling
  • Water pipelines and networks

 

Prof AT Visser

PrEng PhD(Texas) BComm(UNISA) FSAICE AMAcad FSAAE

Office: 11-19 Engineering 1 

E-mail: [email protected]

 

 

Fields of interest

  • Speciality: Pavement design


 

Support Staff

Ms H Boks
Secretary to HOD
 
Office: 11-8 Engineering 1 
Mr J Botha, 
Heavy Machinery Laboratory 2-28.1
 
Ms V Doman
Heavy Machinery Laboratory
 
Mr R Kock
Heavy Machinery Laboratory 2-19
 
Mr D Mostert
Heavy Machinery Laboratory 2-5.1
 
Ms KL Motau
 
Office 11-10 Engineering 1
Mr D Motloung
Heavy Machinery Laboratory
Mr R Nchabaleng
Heavy Machinery Laboratory
 
Mr S Nkadimeng
Heavy Machinery Laboratory
Mr J Nkosi
Experimental Farm
Mr J Selwadi
Heavy Machinery Laboratory
Ms AC Scholtz
 
Office 11-14 Engineering 1
Mr J Scholtz
Civil Engineering Lab 2-21
 
Tel: 012 420 3615
Mr JJ Van Staden
Heavy Machinery Laboratory B
Geotechnical Lab
 
 
 
Mr J Vermaak
Centrifuge (Civil Engineering Laboratory)
 

 

   


 

Post-graduate Student Offices

Floor 11, Room 15 Geotechnical and Structural Engineering  
Floor 12, Room 11 Water and Transportation Engineering  
Floor 13, Room 10 Railway and Transportation Engineering  

 

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