# Faculty Project Name & Description Amount Awarded 9 FEBE Collaborative teaching, training, and learning of 3rd year students with SMMEs – Motor Mechanics who are operating around the Doornfontein Campus. The project is based on internal combustion engines (ICE) which are taught to the 3rd year students. Nissan South Africa and Isuzu jointly donated 5 petrol and diesel automotive engines to the Department to be used for teaching, research, and innovation. The scope of the project is based on students being taught how to strip and assemble these engines. In the process, students will learn how to plan the working space, acquire relevant tools, conceptualise the project, deal with fear, anxiety and lack of confidence while working in a group setup and finally unleash curiosity and innovative ideas. The idea is to approach the Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises (SMMEs) practitioners who are motor mechanics, form partnership with them, where they will coach the students on how to execute the task. The benefit for the motor mechanics would be an agreed stipend, in future the Department would find a way of allowing them to use our Engine Testing Facilities to test their customers’ engines, and conduct short learning programmes (SLPs) for them. R15 000,00 10 HSC Rapid prototyping of advanced physiology teaching aids for practicals, assignments, and research The introduction of technology-based development techniques will enable students to understand how physiological processes work in practice by allowing them to manipulate physiological parameters and observe how these parameters affect physiological function. Physiology teaching can be significantly enhanced by introducing these rapid prototyping techniques in the physiology practicals. This will enable students to learn modern techniques, develop out-of-the-box thinking and enable physical manipulation of physiological parameters with real-world applications. We aim to address the above by incorporating an entry-level all-in-one rapid prototyping machine (printing, machining, and cutting) with advanced computer prototyping boards and peripherals (raspberry pi). R40 000,00 11 HSC A radiography positioning communication application (APP) The project seeks to develop an APP, that allows students to select positioning commands in a language the patient understands may alleviate this challenge. The APP will have patient positioning commands in different languages. When the student encounters a patient with a language different from theirs, they will be able to play the recording of the positioning instruction in the patient’s language as well as show the patient a visual demonstration of the required position through the APP on their mobile device. Positioning patients for various radiographic projections are standardised internationally. The resultant radiograph needs to adhere to specific criteria to enable a medical professional anywhere in the world to interpret the image to make a diagnosis. R50 000,00 2023 ANNUAL REPORT DIVISION FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE 48
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