Meet Engineering Physicist, Prof Simon Connell - Innovation Award: Corporate Organisation Winner

The Mining Positron Emission Tomography (MinPET) project draws on nuclear and medical technology to find diamonds inside kimberlite rock, and is an online sensor-based detection process. Professor Simon Connell’s participation (for South Africa) in the ATLAS Experiment at CERN led to this innovation. The team, under leadership of Prof Connell; and the Department of Mechanical Engineering Science, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, University of Johannesburg (UJ) won the Innovation Award: Corporate Organisations in 2022.

For the leadership he took in the development of MinPET, a revolutionary Fourth Industrial Revolution
(4IR) invention, which is an online sensor-based detection process of diamonds within mined kimberlite rocks.

This video series serves to inspire young minds to follow a career in science, engineering and technology (SET). The NSTF Share ‘n Dare programme provides a platform for NSTF Award winners to act as role models and ambassadors for science, engineering, technology (SET), and innovation.

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