'UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN IYUNIVESITHI YASEKAPA • UNIVERSITEIT VAN KAAPSTAD

CONTENTS

► Welcome 01

► Final Exam Results 02

► Orientation and Registration 03

► Residence and Funding 04

► Important Dates 05

► Campus Life

► 2016 EBE Undergraduate Student Council 06

► Engineers Without Borders (EWB) UCT 06

► Exciting EBE Projects 07-11

► Contact Details 12

WELCOMEPreparing for university can be an exciting, but overwhelming experience - particularly for those who have recently completed their final high-school examinations and are eagerly awaiting their results!

This newsletter serves to provide you with vital information and help ease your anxiety. Please note, our communication with you is via email, so please ensure that your information is always up-to-date on the system.

We wish you a joyous festive season, a relaxing holiday and hope that your application to study in the Faculty of Engineering & the Built Environment at the University of Cape Town will be successful.

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Final Exam ResultsWithin the first week of January, we will automatically receive your final NSC and IEB results from the Department of Education - please do not send them to UCT. We will then send confirmation offers to applicants who have been successful.

Students who are writing Cambridge or other foreign qualifications must immediately submit their results to admissions-ug@uct.ac.za and post a certified printed copy to:

Undergraduate Admissions

University of Cape Town,

Private Bag X3

Rondebosch,

7701

Western Cape, South Africa

Or courier them to:Undergraduate Admissions

University of Cape Town,

Masingene Building, Middle Campus,

Rondebosch,

7700

Western Cape, South Africa

Tel: 021 650 4200.

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Orientation and RegistrationParents will be invited to an orientation programme on Saturday 30 January 2016. (9h00 for local parents and 14h00 for out-of-town parents.)

On Monday 1 February 2016 when the residences open, parents can also attend a programme at 14h00. More information can be found at Parent Orientation.

Orientation for all first year engineering and built environment students will start at 10h00 on Jameson Plaza on Wednesday 3 February 2016. You can find the programme here.

During orientation you will register for your courses, receive your book lists and learn more about your department and the services that are available to you.

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Residence and FundingThe student housing office will inform if you have a residence place, and the financial aid office will advise if you will be receiving funding. If you have not been contacted, you will need to make alternative arrangements. It is not advisable to come to Cape Town without knowing where you will be staying and how will you finance your studies.

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Important dates6 Jan Public release of NSC results

30 Jan Parents orientation (9h00 and 14h00)

1 Feb Residences open, parents orientation (14h00)

3 -5 Feb Orientation and registration for first year student

8 Feb Library tours and academic support talks

9 Feb Computer workshops

10 Feb Meet your mentor

11 Feb SAX appeal day

12 Feb First meeting of classes

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Engineers without Borders (EWB) UCTDuring orientation you will be introduced to EWB UCT - a student society that provides a platform for students from the EBE faculty to practically apply the skills acquired in the courses to real-world problems in underserviced communities.

This year, EWB have been involved in a number of projects doing school repairs, designing and constructing a skate park in Langa, designing a greenhouse, wind turbines, high efficiency stoves and they also ran a human-centred design course that introduced a new aspect of problem solving.

CAMPUS LIFE

2016 EBE Undergraduate Student CouncilThe EBE undergraduate student council is an annually elected student body whose responsibility is to represent and communicate the interests of the near 4000 EBE undergraduate students at the University of Cape Town.

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EXCITING EBE PROJECTS

Electrical engineering academic, Dr Amir Patel, after studying the

movement of the cheetah’s tail, is a step closer to creating the ultimate search-and-

rescue robot that can find and pull survivors and bodies from the scene of a mass disaster,

without falling over.

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EXCITING EBE PROJECTS

Charlotte Slingsby, a recent mechanical engineering graduate,

designed Moya (meaning wind in Xhosa) - a new energy generation system, using sheets

of plastic with wave-like filaments attached, capturing tiny amounts of wind energy that can

then be stored in a battery. Charlotte is an innovation design engineer, who after graduating from UCT, went on

to graduate with a combined Master’s degree from the Royal College of Art and Imperial College London.

Photograph: Graham Turner/Guardian

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EXCITING EBE PROJECTS

Nina Dube recently won the Women’s Property Network Young Achiever Award

(under 35 yrs). She was recognised for the significant role that she plays within Barclays

Africa (ABSA), and who in a short space of time has moved through the ranks to fulfil an often difficult

and challenging position. Nina was one of the first graduates for the property studies degree, in 2001.

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EXCITING EBE PROJECTS

A team from the industrial computational fluid dynamics research

group in the department of mechanical engineering have successfully broken the

longstanding Class A water rocket world altitude record by a massive 33%. It is the first world record

in rocketry set by a South African university group, and definitely the first appearance South Africa has made on

the international water rocket scene.

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EXCITING EBE PROJECTS

A UCT architecture team received first prize for the 2015 Murray & Roberts Des

Baker architectural design competition. Teams were asked to imagine an ‘African city

of the future’, for the African continent using film as their medium of choice.

The team’s entry was titled Day Dream, by Donna Huang, Kyle Mackintosh, Matthew Fourie, Hannah Cook,

Blue Benington and Alexandra Wunderlich, and looked at an emerging Cape Town of the future as new communities develop in

accordance with their resources. The focus was ensuring that as the city grows, large urban areas are sensitive to human scale and allow for

functions: industry, civic and residents, all within close proximity.

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CONTACT DETAILS:

ebe-faculty@uct.ac.za

021 650 2699

www.ebe.uct.ac.za

https://www.facebook.com/UCTEBEFaculty/

5th floor

New Engineering Building

Madiba Circle

Upper Campus

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