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)

Topical links

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

• UP Wireless Network page
• Interactive teaching tools
• New members of staff
• Access control
• AnkiApp can be used to memorise things like student names
• Timetables (Undergraduate)
• The departmental calendar on Google Calendar
• 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
• ECSA Exit level outcomes
• Scientific Workflows page
• 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

• WiFi Login
• Eduroam instructions
• Python
• Dropbox
• Google Drive
• Setting up VPN to access the shared drives and the wiki from off campus
• Browser and Operating System proxy setting
• The use of a the Proxy Autentication
• Setting up your Backups
• Setting up of EBIT shared Printers
• Non Gmail web based Email Client setup

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. Note this link only works on campus or via the VPN