Dr Christie Dorfling, senior lecturer in the Department of Process Engineering, recently received an exceptional award from the Faculty of Engineering: The Dean's Award for Outstanding Achievement.
This award, which is not necessarily made every year, may be awarded to a student whose undergraduate and postgraduate performance has been outstanding.
Dr Dorfling's astounding average of 95% over the four years of undergraduate study is the best in the history of the Department of Process Engineering.
Dr Dorfling received his PhD degree in December 2012. His doctoral studies covered the characterisation and dynamic modelling of the behaviour of platinum group metals (PGM) in high pressure leaching systems. His external examiner stated that the depth of insight, understanding of a broad range of diverse aspects and attention to detail with which he addressed a challenging problem faced by industry, is seldom found in academic theses.
Previous recipients of the Engineering Dean's Award were Dr Derick Moolman (1996) and Dr Marilie du Rand (2004).
