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Maggie Chetty Senior Lecturer: Chetty  Manimagalay Maggie
Tel: 031 373 2384
Email: chettym@dut.ac.za
Location: S4, Level1
Campus: Steve Biko Campus
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Bio: Dr Manimagalay Chetty is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Chemical Engineering. She is an experienced academic and researcher with 25 years of teaching and research. In addition to teaching, she has also driven the curriculation of the new suite of Chemical Engineering, and Pulp and Paper qualifications which have been phased in since 2017. She has represented the department and faculty at various forums both within the institution and externally. She leads a research group in Green Engineering and Sustainability which focuses on wastewater treatment, biomass valorisation with emphasis on agricultural and food waste, biogas technologies, airlift reactors and engineering education. She has published and presented, both internationally and nationally, which includes book chapters, peer reviewed journal and conference papers. She has served on several conference organising committees, is an international reviewer for various journals and conferences, and plays a key role in her profession nationally. She is a Council member of the South African Institution of Chemical Engineers (SAICHE) where she also leads the Hydrogen Interest Group. In addition, she is one of the Associate Editors of the South African Journal of Chemical Engineering which is hosted by SAICHE. Dr Chetty is a Board member of the South African Society of Engineering Education (SASEE) and an Associate Editor of their journal: Southern Journal of Engineering Education.
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Courses Currently Teaching: Process Fluid Flow (PFFL101), Project Management(PMNM101), Chemical Engineering Design 1 (CEDS101), Chemical Engineering Project 4 (CEPR401 and CEPR402) and Green Engineering (GREN101)
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Qualification & Institution: BScEng (chemical) (UDW), MScEng (chemical) (UDW), PhD (chemical engineering) (UKZN), MBA (UKZN)
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Area of Expertise: wastewater treatment, biomass valorisation with emphasis on agricultural and food waste, biogas technologies, renewable energy, airlift reactors, engineering education. ORCID ID: 0000-0003-4035-739X