Main Page

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.

News

• 2016-01-22: Gauteng top student joins ChemEng at UP.
• 2015-05-05: chemeng.up.ac.za online with the migrated wiki content.

(Older news)

PC setup

• Eduroam instructions
• GroupWise server settings
• Set up P: drive (Map network drives)
• Python
• Dropbox
• Setting up VPN to access the shared drives and the wiki from off campus
• Setting up your Backups

Software tools

• Trello for project / task managment
  • 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 specificapp here
• You shuold use Version Control for your code. Look at these GitHub Repositories for other staff members.
• Using Gmail
• Managing passwords

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
  • pdf file
  • pptx file

CSC411: Info for Lectures

• Signing of student's "Red File"
• Regular (weekly) signing of student logbooks
• - To be updated -

Topical links

Things that are topical/are being discussed now, discussed on the wiki:

• Final year project assignment website
• The departmental calendar on Google Calendar
• Scientific Workflows page
• Calculating Marks for the exams (and allocating supps)
• View the automatically generated timetables
• Calculating the UP student number checksum.
• How to upload files on the wiki
• the Undergraduate external process
• Add your Scopus stats to your website
• CSC 411 design project project allocation
• Analytical Instruments
• Data processing

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

• Modules taught by our department
• Shared files
• Workflows
• Documents
• Plagiarism
• Library

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