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Revision as of 08:11, 29 July 2017
Welcome to the Chemical Engineering department's server. The main interface is a Wiki, and the links in this paragraph should take you to Wikipedia, the best-known example of what communal editing can achieve. If you want to play, use the Sandbox.
The server is still under construction. The whole thing is editable at the moment, so if you see an error, fix it! If there's something you want but don't know how to do, add it to the WishList.
Contents
News
- 2016-01-22: Gauteng top student joins ChemEng at UP.
- 2015-05-05: chemeng.up.ac.za online with the migrated wiki content.
Topical links
Things that are topical/are being discussed now, discussed on the wiki:
- Cloud policy
- Safety documentation can be found on the Current Students area of the departmental website
- Calculating Marks for the exams (and allocating supps)
- Paper Trail, including the Undergraduate external process
- Guidelines for editing reports
- Office365 is available for free to UP students and staff
- AnkiApp can be used to memorise things like student names
- ECSA Exit level outcomes
- The departmental calendar on Google Calendar
- Scientific Workflows page
- Timetables (Undergraduate)
- Calculating the UP student number checksum.
- How to upload files on the wiki
- Add your Scopus stats to your website
- Analytical Instruments
- Data processing
Video Lectures
The following youtube channels/playlists are known to be from the department
- Departmental videos
- Dynamics and Control CPN321 and CPB410 (Carl Sandrock)
- Chemical Engineering CIR211 (Carl Sandrock)
- Technical documents in MS Word (Carl Sandrock)
- Thermodynamics CTD223 (Elizbé du Toit)
- Biochemical Engineering CBI310 (Willie Nicol)
Many of these videos use Explain Everything and the Jupyter Notebook.
PC setup
- Eduroam instructions
- GroupWise server settings
- Python
- Dropbox
- Google Drive
- Setting up VPN to access the shared drives and the wiki from off campus
- Setting up your Backups
Software tools
- Trello for project / task management
- Download the OS specific app here
- Slack for internal short communication
- Download the OS specific app here
- Ticketing system for issues at the deparment
- Download the OS specific app here
- You should use Version Control for your code. Look at these GitHub Repositories for other staff members.
- Using Gmail
- Managing passwords
- Using TeamViewer
Venue bookings
- Booking system for the Department's rooms
- Web Room Bookings - make your own ad hoc bookings. This is also available as a Portlet on the UP staff portlets page.
- Computer lab bookings - for example the engineering labs
Building floor plans
Links to the Building floor plans in pdf and pptx format
Final year research project (CSC411)
- CSC 411 design project project allocation
- CSC411 project assignment website
- Signing of student's "Red File"
- Regular (weekly) signing of student logbooks
- Do not use mark sheets - these have been replaced by rubrics in ClickUP
Referencing
Automatic reference tracking and quick search of papers you read
- Free/open source plugin for Firefox users: Zotero
- UP pays lots for RefWorks -- see the tutorial
- UP also has a licence for EndNote -- see guide and downloading page (Style files here)
Quick Links
Staff Links
- IT procurement
- Tutor portal
- Information to help New members of staff
Group Websites
These sites are starting points for particular research groups within the department.
- Process Modelling and Control
- Reaction Engineering
- Tribology
- Institute for Applied Materials
- Fluoro-materials_Science
- Emulsions Laboratory
Educational links
- Learn from other's common mistakes.
- Engineering E-Sources of UP
- The CACHE project collects resources for computer aids in chemical engineering.
- Numerical statistics using Jupyter notebooks and Python
Research links
- Access many dissertations and theses produced in South Africa at the National ETD Portal
- The NRF maintains a database of current and past research projects called Nexus
Undergraduate tech needs
- Pocket calculators: Casio fx-991es PLUS or fx-570es PLUS or the newer fx-991ex or fx-570ex or SHARP EL-W516
- Comparison of non-programmable pocket calculators for undergraduate studies can be found here and here
- Laptop: 15.6", Intel i5 or i7 CPU, >= 4 GB RAM, > 3 USB ports, a/b/g/n/ac WLAN, 1440 x 900 or above display resolution, > 500 GB HDD or 256 GB SSD
- Tablet: Preferable 9.7 " display
- Flash disk: > 8 GB USB Memory Stick
- Printer (laser preferred)
Telephone Directory
An online telephone list is also available at the following address: Portal Telephone Directory. This link will only work if you have logged into the UP portal.
