New chairperson for Wits rock engineering department

As a leading school in the field of rock engineering, the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) School of Mining Engineering has appointed Professor Rudrajit Mitra as centennial chairperson of the school’s rock engineering department. He joins Wits from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney, Australia, where he was director of undergraduate studies in the School of Mining Engineering since 2012. Mitra highlights the importance of rock engineering in South Africa’s demanding ...