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GROWS (GIBELA RESEARCH ON
WORK CHALLENGES WORKSHOP)

he Tshwane University of Technology
held its 4th annual GROWS workshop
Tfrom 24-26 May 2021 at the Kedar
Heritage Lodge, Conference Centre & Spa,
Rustenburg, South Africa. The theme of the
whole conference was Transitional Innovation.

A diversity of people from different sectors
or institutions attended the workshop, which
was thought-provoking and very educational
at the same time. More than 30 students
who are working towards their Masters of
Engineering in the Department of Engineering
and Post-Doctorate degrees presented
papers and joined the conference virtually.
On the second day of the conference, some
of the students received prizes for their
work according to the level of their study.

The aim of this annual series of workshops is
to ensure that research topics are aligned with
real-world challenges faced by the company.
The concept is that industry professionals
engage researchers and address some of Mr Joseph Mudau: Gibela Rail
the workplace challenges in the development Transport Consortium
of new topics as well as the alignment with researchers to gain a deeper insight into
the research agenda. This initiative was real industrial research problems so that
created to ensure that industrial experts their research does not end up becoming
understand the available applied research on ‘blue-sky’ but rather, applied research with
the one hand and on the other hand, for the social, economic and technological impact.

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