{"id":850,"date":"2025-07-19T05:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T05:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.gtiit.edu.cn\/mer\/?page_id=850"},"modified":"2026-03-27T08:19:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T08:19:31","slug":"nicolaas-johannes-theron","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.gtiit.edu.cn\/mer\/nicolaas-johannes-theron\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicolaas Johannes Theron"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"850\" class=\"elementor elementor-850\" data-elementor-settings=\"[]\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-81f5b53 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"81f5b53\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container 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data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Associate Professor<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-551a10d elementor-align-center elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"551a10d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-size-sm\" role=\"button\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">&#x4e;&#x69;&#x63;&#111;&#108;&#97;as&#x2e;&#x54;&#x68;&#x65;&#114;&#111;n&#64;&#x67;&#x74;&#x69;&#x69;&#116;&#46;ed&#x75;&#x2e;&#x63;&#x6e;<\/span>\n\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-66 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-51bc2df\" data-id=\"51bc2df\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c5d4603 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c5d4603\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>Nicolaas (Nico) Theron is a Visiting Associate Professor in the Mechanical Engineering (Robotics) program. He retired as an Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pretoria in South Africa in November 2021, where he taught control systems, undergraduate dynamics and computer programming for engineering students. He was involved in research in structural control and robotics.<\/p><p>He completed his PhD in Mechanical Engineering at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York in 1994, on elastic multibody dynamics of helicopter rotors. After completing his PhD, he taught for five years at the Stellenbosch University in South Africa, before moving to the University of Pretoria in 2000. Before his PhD studies he worked for 10 years in the South African industry.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-74a7574 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"74a7574\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-622b26a\" data-id=\"622b26a\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e0f6f7e elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"e0f6f7e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicolaas Johannes Theron Associate Professor &#x4e;&#x69;&#x63;&#x6f;&#108;&#97;&#97;&#115;&#46;Th&#x65;&#x72;&#x6f;&#x6e;&#x40;&#103;&#116;&#105;it&#46;&#x65;&#x64;&#x75;&#x2e;&#x63;&#110; Nicolaas (Nico) Theron is a Visiting Associate Professor in the Mechanical Engineering (Robotics) program. He retired as an Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pretoria in South Africa in November 2021, where he taught control systems, undergraduate dynamics and computer programming for engineering students. He was &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.gtiit.edu.cn\/mer\/nicolaas-johannes-theron\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nicolaas Johannes Theron<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":407,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.gtiit.edu.cn\/mer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/850"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.gtiit.edu.cn\/mer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.gtiit.edu.cn\/mer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.gtiit.edu.cn\/mer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/407"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.gtiit.edu.cn\/mer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=850"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.gtiit.edu.cn\/mer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1478,"href":"https:\/\/sites.gtiit.edu.cn\/mer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/850\/revisions\/1478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.gtiit.edu.cn\/mer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}