EBE celebrates research excellence

Acknowledged for having the best-ranked research profile for the last five years, Prof Gerald Nurick from the Department of Mechanical Engineering received the Professorial Research Award from the Faculty of Engineering & the Built Environment (EBE).

EBE staff and students were rewarded for their outstanding research work last month in a bid to raise the faculty's research profile. Nurick (right – photographed here with DVC Prof Danie Visser) was among those honoured for their outstanding research work. Nurick has worked in the field of impact dynamics for over twenty years and in that time has supervised over 60 MSc, PhD and post-doctoral students. He also produced more than 130 academic publications on a range of topics.