July 2013

merSETA together with Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) initiated the Women in Engineering Leadership Association (wela) with the aim of empowering young female engineering students at the institution. The duo has recognised the importance of promoting and developing women into this emerging field and to market it as a desirable career aspiration.

The Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University’s (NMMU) department of Industrial Engineering and Continental Tires have recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding whereby the department will develop and provide short learning programmes to the international offices of this leading tyre giant.