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Hannes Du Toit
Snr Project Manager: Community Engagement at North West UniversityHannes du Toit is a panel member at the Panel Discussion.
Hannes du Toit is responsible for facilitating Engineering in Context Module for 3rd year students and is Project manager to coordinate community projects. In short, he is an Initiator, Manager, Lecturer, Program Designer.
He tries to equip students and community members to approach life with a helicopter view, namely ask questions and debate with others to establish the purpose and context of knowledge. Once you have the bigger picture of things, you can identify what route to follow to reach your destiny in the most effective manner. He tends to support his students to develop skills that can be applied in real-life situations. He therefore based his teaching strategies on Project-Based Learning-, Self-Directed Learning and Cooperative Learning principles to get his students actively involved in the learning process.
In his 8 years of working in industry, as well as the 28 years of working at North-West University (NWU) as academic, he has always been involved as the change agent to generate new ideas in strategic projects. After finishing his NHDipl (National Higher Diploma in Mechanical Engineering), he started his career at AEC (Atomic Energy Corporation) as part of a research and development team to use laser technology in a uranium enrichment project. Moving to Denel, Kentron, he specialized in the field of Metrology, developing aeroplane navigation systems for the local and international industry.
At the NWU he continued his role as a change agent in the Faculty of Engineering, from the development of new training systems, refurbishments of several facilities; designing new marketing strategies; designing integrated learning training programmes in several departments in the 28 years at the faculty.
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As a self-directed learner, he constantly strives to improve his competence attending workshops and short courses local and abroad to maintain international perspective and vision. This took him on a journey attending and presenting in the US, Netherlands, Denmark, the UK and local.
He developed skills to design multi-level, multi-discipline, project-based training programmes.
Nosipho Gumede
Senior Lecturer at North West UniversityNosipho Gumede is a panel member at the Panel Discussion.
Nosipho Gumede is an entrepreneur (Founder of WAME Consulting), a registered professional engineer and Senior Lecturer (North West University). She has qualifications in Metallurgical Engineering and Industrial Engineering from the University of the Witwatersrand. Nosipho started her career as a Metallurgist in coal mining and after five years in the mining industry she transitioned to Business Improvement & Consulting. She has done Business Improvement and Consulting work in iron ore mining, primary healthcare, education, occupational health, SHE Management, corporate affairs and mHealth. Her purpose is to apply engineering principles in diverse sectors to make a positive impact in society.
Bontle Tladi
Lecturer at University of the Witwatersrand, JohannesburgBontle Tladi is a panel member at the Panel Discussion.
Bontle Tladi is a Lecturer at the School of Mechanical, Industrial and Aeronautical Engineering, where she primarily teaches Industrial Engineering Design. She is an Industrial Engineer by training (having obtained her BSc and MSc in Industrial Engineering from Wits); an aspiring design theorist; and has a keen heart for coaching and facilitation - which has motivated her completion of programmes in Business Coaching and Social Entrepreneurship (both from the Gordon Institute of Business Science). Her industry experience spans the areas of Supply Chain, ICT, and general business optimisation. Her research interests are broadly in the extension of design to the areas of social impact and social innovation. She is a PhD candidate at the University of Pretoria, where she is researching the following topic: "Co-creation of social value: a narrative inquiry into relational models of social innovation". She is a member of the Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering (SAIIE) Council.
Irshaad Vawda
CEO of EWB-SAIrshaad Vawda is a panel member at the Panel Discussion.
A creative-thinking, analytically-strong and ECSA registered Industrial Engineer with a strong System Engineering background, and experience in large and small energy projects (particularly renewable energy) in various leadership roles and companies.
Passionate about leveraging “hard” engineering disciplines together with “soft” social approaches to create innovative, efficient, resilient and responsible businesses and infrastructure.
Justin Yarrow
Exec Director of SuperScientistsJustin Yarrow is a panel member at the Panel Discussion.
Dr Justin Yarrow is the founder of SuperScientists, a project of the NPO CodeMakers. Trained as a PhD scientist, Justin started CodeMakers in 2015 to provide hands-on STEM education and coding education to young people in low-income communities. Through this programme they taught hundreds of young people creating coding and translated the free coding education software Scratch into isiZulu. SuperScientists was created to solve the problem that when young people are asked to name a scientist, most say Einstein or no one. Drawing scientists and science champions as superheroes, the project speaks a language that young people understand and shows the importance and power of scientists. SuperScientists has drawn over 60 scientists and created trading cards, activity books, calendars, a comic, and soon a travelling exhibit. Over 20,000 materials have been distributed to young people in South Africa and beyond. They hope that early career scientists will one day point to SuperScientists as the reason they started a career in STEM.