Research and Innovation Unit ETDs: Recent submissions

  • Assessment of air pollution in residential areas : a case study of Kinondoni Municipality, Tanzania 
    Ndambuki, J.M.; Rwanga, S. (Journal for New Generation Sciences, Vol 6, Issue 1: Central University of Technology, Free State, Bloemfontein, 2008)
    Air pollution, just like any other type of pollution, produces harmful effects to man and his environment. In spite of knowing this, many less industrialised countries of the world have no air quality monitoring strategies ...
  • South African local government performance : satisfactory to be globally competitive? 
    Kroukamp, Hendri (Journal for New Generation Sciences, Vol 6, Issue 1: Central University of Technology, Free State, Bloemfontein, 2008)
    The changes brought about by global competitiveness place increasing pressure on local government to deliver more and better services to communities. To determine whether South Africa has benefited from globalisation per ...
  • An overview of research and development activities in the South African automotive industry 
    Gastrow, Michael (Journal for New Generation Sciences, Vol 6, Issue 1: Central University of Technology, Free State, Bloemfontein, 2008)
    Since 1995 South Africa's automotive industry has had to adjust to market liberalisation, rapidly integrate into global supply chains, adapt to World Class levels of competitiveness, and has seen increased ownership by ...
  • THE STATUS OF THE PROJECTION PRINCIPLE IN GOVERNMENT-BINDING THEORY 
    Vinger, Gift (Journal for New Generation Sciences, Vol 6, Issue 2: Central University of Technology, Free State, Bloemfontein, 2008)
    The role of the Projection Principle within Chomsky's Government-Binding (GB) Theory is to preserve the subcategorisation properties of lexical items at all levels of syntactic representation, viz. D-structure, S-structure, ...
  • DIE ROL VAN KONNOTATIEWE EN DENOTATIEWE ELEMENTE IN DIE INSTANDHOU EN KOMMUNIKASIE VAN REKLAMEMITES 
    van Niekerk, A.; Möller, J. (Journal for New Generation Sciences, Vol 6, Issue 2: Central University of Technology, Free State, Bloemfontein, 2008)
    Change in the world is reflected in almost every aspect of our lives – how we live, eat, communicate, etc. For reasons of authentication the mass media use real people in real life settings to convince real people to buy ...
  • Advances in Three Dimensional Printing - state of the art and future perspectives 
    Dimitrov, D.; Schreve, K.; De Beer, N. (Journal for New Generation Sciences, Vol 4, Issue 1: Central University of Technology, Free State, Bloemfontein, 2006)
    This paper surveys the current state and capabilities of Three Dimensional Printing (3DP). Based on its technical background - the ink jet printing as known from the printer and plotter industry - a classification structure ...
  • Behavior modeling for the spraying device in the layered manufacturing process 
    Chen, K.Z.; Wang, F.; Feng, X.Y.; Feng, X.A. (Journal for New Generation Sciences, Vol 4, Issue 1: Central University of Technology, Free State, Bloemfontein, 2006)
    A component, which has a perfect combination of different materials (probably including homogeneous materials and three different types of heterogeneous materials) in its different portions for a specific application, is ...
  • An international perspective on design 
    Campbell, R.I. (Journal for New Generation Sciences, Vol 4, Issue 1: Central University of Technology, Free State, Bloemfontein, 2006)
    The world seems to be an increasingly fast-changing place with many societal trends coming and going each year. However, some world-wide trends seemed to have established themselves as being more long-term in nature, e.g. ...
  • Cost model for rapid manufacturing 
    Tuomi, J.; Karjalainen, J. (Journal for New Generation Sciences, Vol 4, Issue 1: Central University of Technology, Free State, Bloemfontein, 2006)
    At Helsinki University of Technology rapid prototyping, rapid tooling and rapid manufacturing technologies and applications have been researched since late 1980s. The Integrated Design and Manufacturing research group has ...
  • Recent e-Manufacturing solutions developed by EOS 
    Langer, H.J.; Shellabear, M. (Journal for New Generation Sciences, Vol 4, Issue 1: Central University of Technology, Free State, Bloemfontein, 2006)
    e-Manufacturing means the fast, flexible and cost-effective production of parts directly from electronic data, which can include rapid prototyping, rapid tooling, (spare) parts on demand etc. Especially interesting is the ...
  • Application of numerical modelling in SSM automotive brake calliper castings 
    Jahajeeah, N. (Journal for New Generation Sciences, Vol 4, Issue 1: Central University of Technology, Free State, Bloemfontein, 2006)
    Numerical modelling has successfully been used as an efficient tool to convert a gravity cast brake calliper to a thixocasting process. The thixo-module of Procast has been used for the modelling process to obtain optimum ...
  • Thermal process and novel control methods for spin-casting 
    Huan, Z.; Jordaan, G.D. (Journal for New Generation Sciences, Vol 4, Issue 1: Central University of Technology, Free State, Bloemfontein, 2006)
    The quality of spin casting products and mould life are critically dependent on thermal conditions they undergo. In order to improve the performance of production and to optimise the spin-casting process, characteristics ...
  • The role of collaboration in the South African tooling industry 
    Geyer, J.J.; Bruwer, R. (Journal for New Generation Sciences, Vol 4, Issue 1: Central University of Technology, Free State, Bloemfontein, 2006)
    The efficient design and manufacturing of injection moulds (and other tooling), requires collaboration between multi-disciplinary, geographically separated units and companies, including the company that orders plastic ...
  • Product development within the framework of a National Casting Technology Centre 
    Du Preez, W.; Paine., A.; Bean, R. (Journal for New Generation Sciences, Vol 4, Issue 1: Central University of Technology, Free State, Bloemfontein, 2006)
    The need for a state of the art advanced National Casting Technology Centre (NCTC) has been widely supported throughout industry and recognised as an important facilitator in the growth of the foundry industry. This ...
  • Product and process innovations by means of rapid technologies 
    Dimitrov, D.; De Beer, N.; Centner, T. (Journal for New Generation Sciences, Vol 4, Issue 1: Central University of Technology, Free State, Bloemfontein, 2006)
    Over the past few years, methods of layered manufacturing (LM) have advanced substantially to the point where they now provide vital strategic benefits to various organisations. One area of application where LM technologies ...
  • Active / interactive learning facilitation in large classes 
    Van Amerom, W.P.C. (Journal for New Generation Sciences, Vol 3, Issue 2: Central University of Technology, Free State, Bloemfontein, 2005)
    Anyone who has taught a large class is aware of the physical and emotional constraints upon both lecturer and students. For students the dominant problems are anonymity, passivity and a frustration of not being able to say ...
  • Co-operative education : an effective educational strategy 
    Stanley, Monica (Journal for New Generation Sciences, Vol 3, Issue 2: Central University of Technology, Free State, Bloemfontein, 2005)
    Co-operative Education is an integrated learning model that consists of an academic and Experiential Learning component. The concept of Co-operative Education is based on the application of theory and knowledge obtained ...
  • Trends in higher education : selling out? 
    Nel, Joe (Journal for New Generation Sciences, Vol 3, Issue 2: Central University of Technology, Free State, Bloemfontein, 2005)
    Although changes to the Higher Education system are inevitable and, indeed, welcome, the steady drift towards assuming corporate identities and corporate practices is a lamentable and destructive feature of the changing ...
  • Technology-enhanced learning 
    Mostert, Jaco (Journal for New Generation Sciences, Vol 3, Issue 2: Central University of Technology, Free State, Bloemfontein, 2005)
    The aim of the paper is, firstly, to deal with the reasons for the sudden increase in interest in the use of technology in higher education. The main focus of the paper will be on 18 issues that must be taken into account ...
  • Performance indicators in higher education teaching and learning : imperatives for lecturers 
    Koorts, A.S. (Journal for New Generation Sciences, Vol 3, Issue 2: Central University of Technology, Free State, Bloemfontein, 2005)
    Quality assurance at higher education institutions involves more than a mere establishment of bodies (CHE, HEQ) to oversee the process. Without a selfdriven approach towards quality assurance, institutions will hardly get ...

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