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    The document provides an overview of the Faculty of Engineering & the Built Environment (EBE) at the University of Cape Town (UCT). EBE aims to prepare students for the future by providing an interdisciplinary education and conducting research on complex challenges facing Africa and the global community related to areas like water, energy, urbanization and sustainability.

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    Welcome to EBE “The fields of engineering and the built environment

    are constantly evolving and changing. In EBE, we aim


    to stay ahead of the curve and prepare students for
    The Faculty of Engineering & the the future.
    Built Environment (EBE) takes pride Engineers and built environmental professionals need
    in its people – most especially its students, a deep understanding of the human experience and
    who become sought-after architects, a keen awareness of how technology affects it. To
    imagine, create and sustain the future for generations
    planners, quantity surveyors, land surveyors, to come, our students will put themselves in the shoes
    GIS specialists, property valuers and of the people they are designing for to understand
    professional engineers in a variety of areas, their needs and how they interact with the world
    whether electrical, chemical, mechanical, around them.

    electro-mechanical, civil, computer Interdisciplinary collaboration provides unique


    opportunities, and EBE researchers work in partnership
    engineering or mechatronics. with chemists, physicists, microbiologists, lawyers,
    doctors, sociologists, and social anthropologists. The
    work in the faculty ranges from health to energy,
    sustainable housing, circular economy, robotics and AI,

    Did you know?


    water scarcity, and so much more.”

    1  he Menzi Design Laboratory is a space for students and


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    researchers to transform their ideas into prototypes and IP,
    and ultimately take them into production.
    PROFESSOR ALISON LEWIS
    Dean of Engineering & the Built Environment

    2 In a novel transdisciplinary project researchers in electrical


    engineering are using robotics and AI to monitor the
    health status of wildlife – a game-changer for the fields of
    ecology and conservation management in South Africa. CONTACT US
    ebe-faculty@uct.ac.za
    3  he departments of Civil, Chemical and Electrical
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    Engineering are working together with Oceanography, to
    unravel the complex processes in the Antarctic marginal +27 21 650 2699
    ice zone.
    www.ebe.uct.ac.za

    4  he S+CUBE team in the Department of Construction


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    Apply to study at UCT

    Faculty of
    Economics and Management collaborates with local
    experts across the architectural, engineering, energy applyonline.uct.ac.za

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    and humanities disciplines to design national net-zero
    sustainable innovative affordable net-zero houses for
    different climatic zones in South Africa. Engineering
    5 In the 2022 annual QS World University Rankings for & the Built
    engineering and technology, UCT was ranked as the best
    engineering university in South Africa. Environment
    Six departments
    5 000+ Research
    people
    Architecture, Planning and Geomatics offers
    degrees that give graduates access to career The complex challenges facing Africa and the global
    opportunities in architecture, landscape architecture community – water scarcity, alternative energy, urbanisation
    and urban planning. Geomatics involves the integrated and sustainability – demand collaborative solutions.
    measurement, analysis and management of spatial data. The faculty houses a number of interdisciplinary
    research units concentrating on these challenges.
    A diverse
    student body
    3 166 undergraduates (67%)
    4 697
    students
    Chemical Engineering prepares students for
    lifelong professional growth and a dynamic range EBE RESEARCH
    1 282 postgraduates (27%)
    of careers. The fundamentals of science and the IMAGINE. CREATE. SUSTAIN.
    principles of process engineering are integrated into
    249 PhD students (5%) multidisciplinary teaching and research programmes WATER URBANISATION
    aimed at producing world-class graduates and
    Future Water  frican Centre for Cities
    A
    internationally competitive research.
    Urban Water Innovative affordable
    Waste Water housing
    World-renowned teaching staff Bioprocessing Building future cities

    264 176 Civil Engineering prepares graduates for the Crystallisation Transport
    planning, design, construction and development of and Precipitation Spatial Planning
    academic staff professional, building and infrastructure projects, the management
    (55%) administrative and distribution of water resources, the optimisation
    ENERGY INNOVATION
    support and of traffic and transport services and the creation of
    service staff (45%) sustainable and energy-efficient cities and communities. Energy Efficiency Bioengineering
    Fuel Cells Materials
    Radar Renewable Robotics

    State-of-the-art facilities Construction Economics and Management aims to


    Renewable Energy
    Reduced carbon
    Spin-off Companies
    Patents
    EBE laboratories make use of the produce graduates with theoretical, entrepreneurial and footprint
    latest industry standards to support business skills that will ensure their leadership positions
    modern teaching and learning. within the construction, property and built environment
    industries.
    INFRASTRUCTURE ENVIRONMENT
    Internationally recognised research Transport  ustainable Mining
    S
    EBE research is recognised for its relevance to the Planning Acid Mine Drainage
    needs of industry, and offers great opportunities for Electrical Engineering offers three creative and Urban Environmental Green Buildings
    postgraduate students. stimulating degree programmes where students Land Surveying Sustainable Cities
    learn to solve known problems and conceive responses Environmental and E-waste
    to challenges that have not yet been recognised. Process Systems Climate Change
    20  ctive
    a
    research
    groups
    63 National
    Research
    Foundation-rated 8
    SARChI
    chairs* New technologies and applications, once unimaginable
    and achieving what once seemed impossible, are
    Telecommunications

    staff members emerging every day.

    “I chose engineering because I wanted


    R21.8 million Spin-off companies
    to be a part of creating Afrocentric
    in research income include DroneSAR,
    Mechanical Engineering offers two well-recognised technology solutions that help make
    HyPlat, Hot Platinum
    and Elemental degrees, excellent research facilities and collaboration
    Numerics. with world-class departments. A wide range of research
    technology more accessible in our
    opportunities that are addressing global challenges country.”
    *The Department of Science and Technology and the National are available – from bioengineering and energy KHAYA MXENGE
    Research Foundation fund research positions (called SARChI chairs) efficiency to robotics, computational fluid dynamics Mechatronics graduate
    at universities across South Africa in order to strengthen the country’s and many more.
    ability to produce high-quality research, innovation and students.

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