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Opportunities for Industrial Liaison

The School encourages collaborative work with industry. Collaboration can take many forms and may not necessarily involve funding.The School encourages contact in the following areas:

  • Undergraduate laboratory projects can assess the viability of certain projects.
  • Postgraduate projects offer the opportunity to investigate thoroughly more complex problems over a period of one to three years.
  • Contract research: The School may enter into contracts to investigate problems that require the expertise of the staff and the facilities available at Wits.
  • Consultation: Academic staff may undertake consulting work in specialist fields.
  • Continuing Engineering Education: Academic staff are able to present courses to members of the public or organisations through the Faculty of Engineering Division of Continuing Engineering Education.

Enquiries: liezel.herman@wits.ac.za 

Companies interested in further information should contact:
School of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering, University of the Witwatersrand
Private Bag 3, WITS 2050  South Africa

Telephone: +27 (11) 717-7510
E-mail: liezel.herman@wits.ac.za

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