Niel Du Plooy
About
•Main author of an article published in an international journal: Sustainable Production and Consumption - Local benchmarking in mines to locate inefficient compressed air usage. •Thermodynamic analysis •Project management •People management •Problem-solving and analytical thinking •Research •CAD design in Solidworks •Experienced in coding, especially Python and Mathworks MATLAB •Experience in working with ANSYS, ANSYS_Fluent and ADAMS/View (multi-body dynamics software) •Experienced in mathematical optimisation
Work Experience
Vacation Worker
Six weeks workshop practice including milling, lathing, grinding, welding and wiring. Six weeks CAD design and calculations of pressure vessels.
Project Engineer - Energy Systems Optimisation
Project engineer for energy systems optimisation, simulation development, investigations and audits. Projects included compressed air, ventilation and water reticulation audits.
Workshop Manager/Mould Designer
Workshop management, mould design, research and development. Projects included crack investigations using ANSYS simulation software and CAD design using Solidworks.
Education
Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering
Thesis: Development of a local benchmarking strategy to identify inefficient compressed air usage in deep-level mines.
Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering (BEng)
Four-year course. Cumulative average 69%. Member of Golden Key International Honour Society (Top 15% of academic achievers).