Academic Qualifications

• PhD in Mechatronic engineering from Stellenbosch University in 2011
• MScEng Mechatronic degree from Stellenbosch University in 2007
• BEng Mechatronic degree from Stellenbosch University in 2005

International peer reviewed journal publications

1. Van Den Heever, D.J., Schreve, K. and Scheffer, C., "Tactile Sensing using Force Sensing Resistors and a Super Resolution Algorithm", IEEE Sensors Journal, Vol. 9(1), p. 29-35, 2009.

2. Van den Heever, D.J., Scheffer, C., Erasmus, P.J., Dillon, E.M., “Contact stresses in a patient-specific unicompartmental knee replacement”, Clinical Biomechanics, Vol. 26(2), p. 159-166, 2011.

3. Van den Heever, D.J., Scheffer, C., Erasmus, P.J., Dillon, E.M., “Method for selection of femoral component in total knee arthroplasty (tka)”, Australasian Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine, Vol. 34(1), p. 23-30, 2011.

4. Van den Heever, D.J., Scheffer, C., Erasmus, P.J., Dillon, E.M., “Mathematical reconstruction of human femoral condyles”, Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, Vol. 133(6), p. 64504, 2011.

 Publications, Presentations and Patents

2015

Journal Articles (subsidised)

BURGER CJ, VAN DEN HEEVER DJ. Removal of EOG artefacts by combining wavelet neural network and independent component analysis. BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING AND CONTROL 2015; 15:67-79.

Journal Articles (NON-subsidised)

GARIKAYI T, MATOPE S, VAN DEN HEEVER DJ. Development of an adaptive controller for lower limb rehabilitation device. International Journal of Mechanical Engineering & Automation 2015; 2(6):245-256.

Proceedings International

EISENBERG M, OLADIRAN MT, UZIAK J, KIESER E, VAN DEN HEEVER DJ. Promoting entrepreneurship for Southern African youth through localised entrepreneural academic programme (LEAP). Edulearn 15 7th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, Barcelona, Spain, iated.org/edulearn 2015: 5982-5986.

MINNAAR NJ, VAN DEN HEEVER DJ. A kicking simulator to investigate the foot-ball interaction during a rugby place kick. 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Milano, Italy, Medline U.S national Library of Medicine 2015: 95.

MULLER JH, VAN DEN HEEVER DJ. The Evolution of the Biomedical Engineering Research Group (BERG) at Stellenbosch University. 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC2015), Milan, Italy, IEEE 2015: 1.

OLADIRAN MT, UZIAK J, VAN DEN HEEVER DJ, EISENBERG M. Industry and University collaboration - the case of global engineering teams. Edulearn 15 7th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, Barcelona, Spain, iated.org/edulearn 2015: 5921-5926.

Doctoral completed

COCKCROFT SJ, MULLER JH, SCHEFFER C, VAN DEN HEEVER DJ. Novel motion capture methods for sports analysis: case studies of cycling and rugby goal kicking . PhD (Eng), 2015. 147 pp.

2014

Proceedings International

GARIKAYI T, MATOPE S, VAN DEN HEEVER DJ. Development of a Model Reference Adaptive Controller of the Plantarflexion and Dorsiflexion Movements within the Sagittal Plane. International Conference on Chemical Engineering and Advanced Computational Technologies (ICCEACT2014), Pretoria, South Africa, 2014: 60-67.

2013

Journal Articles (subsidised)

SPOTTISWOODE BS, VAN DEN HEEVER DJ, CHANG Y, ENGELHARDT S, DU PLESSIS S, NICOLLS F, HARTZENBERG HB, GRETSCHEL A. Preoperative Three-Dimensional Model Creation of Magnetic Resonance Brain Images as a Tool to Assist Neurosurgical Planning. Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery 2013; 91 : 162-169.

Journal Articles (NON-subsidised)

VAN DEN HEEVER DJ, SCHEFFER C, ERASMUS PJ, DILLON EM. In-vitro measurement of tibiofemoral kinematics after patient-specific unicompartmental knee replacement. Journal of Biomedical Science and Engineering 2012; 5 : 729-736.

Proceedings International

VAN DER MERWE J, SCHEFFER C, VAN DEN HEEVER DJ, ERASMUS PJ. Reverse Engineering the Human Knee. International Conference on Competitive Manufaturing (COMA '13), Stellenbosch, South Africa, 2013: 85-90.

2012

Journal Articles

VAN DEN HEEVER DJ, SCHEFFER C, ERASMUS PJ, DILLON EM. Classification of gender and race in the distal femur using self organising maps. Knee 2012; 19 : 488-492.

Proceedings International

VAN DEN HEEVER DJ, SCHEFFER C, ERASMUS PJ, DILLON EM. Development and testing of patient-specific knee replacements. 34th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), IEEE San Diego, California, USA, 2012: 4875-4878.

1. Van Den Heever, D.J., and Scheffer, C., “Development of a Patient-Specific Femoral Component for Unicompartmental Knee Replacement”, 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 2009), 2-6 September 2009, Minneapolis, USA.

2. Van Den Heever,D.J., Scheffer, C., Erasmus, P.J., and Dillon, E.M., “Development of Patient-Specific Unicompartmental Knee Replacement”, XXII Congress of the International Society of Biomechanics, 5-9 July 2009, Cape Town, South Africa.

3. Van Den Heever, D.J., Scheffer, C., Erasmus, P.J., and Dillon, E.M., “Contact stresses in a patient-specific unicompartmental knee replacement”, 32nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 2009), 31 Aug -4 September 2010, Buenos Aires, Argentina, p. 5113-5116.​