Overview

The Master of  Metallurgy and Materials Engineering is offered at the the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Key facts

Climate change and sustainability are becoming major concerns in designing cities and buildings. The delivery of affordable housing and the development of more inclusive cities are also critical challenges. Creative responses to these and other challenges form the basis of the teaching and research programmes in both the School of Architecture and Planning and the School of Construction Economics and Management.

Live city studios, examining and developing proposals to shape change in key areas such as inner cities form the basis for some postgraduate student projects in the School of Architecture and Planning. Other projects include studies of declining towns, informal settlements, street traders, provincial and metropolitan policies, inter alia. These issues are relevant to the South African context but draw on internationally accepted disciplinary principles.

The Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment (EBE) has the highest number of endowed professorships or chairs in the University and provides society with well-educated, entrepreneurial graduates in engineering and the built environment.