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DONORACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The University of Cape Town gratefully acknowledges the sustained contributions of the following partners. Their support has made possible curriculum, staff and student transformation, improved student access to tertiary education, programmes that promote social engagement and community upliftment, as well as increased research capacity.

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DONORACKNOWLEDGEMENT

(CONTINUED)

Thank you for helping UCT to pursue its vision of being a world class, research-led African university

FACULTIES OF ENGINEERING & THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT (CEREMONY 1)

AND SCIENCE (CEREMONY 1)

ORDER OF PROCEEDINGS

Academic Procession.(The congregation is requested to stand as the procession enters the hall and

is invited to participate in the singing of Gaudeamus)

The Vice-Chancellor will constitute the congregation.

The National Anthem.

The University Statement of Dedication will be read by a representative of the SRC.

Musical Item.

Welcome by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Professor D Visser.

Professor Visser will present George Janedlize and Hans-Pieter Kunzi for the award of a Fellowship.

The honorary graduand will be presented to the Vice-Chancellor by the University orator, Professor A Lewis.

Professor Visser will invite David Potter to address the congregation.

Address by David Potter.

The graduands and diplomates will be presented to the Vice-Chancellor by the Deans of the faculties.

The Vice-Chancellor will congratulate the new graduates and diplomates.

Professor Visser will make closing announcements and invite the congregation to stand.

The Vice-Chancellor will dissolve the congregation.

The procession, including the new graduates and diplomates, will leave the hall.(The congregation is requested to remain standing until

the procession has left the hall)

The music for the recessional march has been composed by Professor Peter Klatzow.

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FELLOWSHIP

The election by Senate of a member of the faculty to be a fellow recognises sustained and original contributions through research or creative endeavour.

The fellows in the Faculty of Science and their years of election are: 2009: I Barashenkov1998: WJ Bond2010: SA Bourne1983: GM Branch1998: DS Butterworth2005: MR Caira2010: K Chibale 2005: A Chinsamy-Turan1995: JWA Cleymans2008: TM Crowe1996: MJ de Wit2011: TJ Egan2001: AP Fairall2010: JM Farrant 1985: JG Field2005: CL Griffiths2005: AP le Roex1996: JRE Lutjeharms2007: JR Moss1995: BD Reddy2005: AL Rodgers2009: JC Sealy2006: TJ Stewart2005: JA Thomson2003: LG Underhill2006: RD Viollier

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The following members of the Faculty of Science have been elected to a fellowship:

George Janelidze

George Janelidze was born in Karaganda (USSR). He graduated from Tbilisi State University in 1974, obtaining his PhD degree at the same university in 1978. He worked at the Mathematical Institute of the Georgian Academy of Sciences from 1975 to 2004 (from 1989 as a Leading Research Scientist, and he still is an Honorary Member of that institute), and joined UCT as a professor in 2004. George Janelidze has held an NRF A2 rating since 2005. His highest academic degree is that of Doctor of Science (DSc) from St Petersburg State University, awarded in 1992.

His main research area is general algebra, which includes category theory, categorical, homological, and universal algebra, and their applications in classical algebra, geometry, and topology. Apart from journals specifically devoted to category theory he has also published in the “Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra” and in “Journal of Algebra”. According to the American Mathematical Society (AMS) records, his 77 publications are cited 330 times by 76 authors; and according to Google Scholar, he has an h-index of 18.

He is recognised as the developer of and a leading scholar on the subject of categorical Galois theory, the first version of which he published in 1984. He has given many invited talks on this and related subjects, and has collaborated with distinguished mathematicians from Western Europe, North America and Australia. Moreover, several International conferences and seminars in Belgium (Louvain-la-Neuve), Canada (Fields Institute), Germany (Oberwolfach), Italy (Milan), and Portugal (Coimbra), were devoted to topics either invented or substantially developed in this collaboration.

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Hans-Peter Albert Künzi

Hans-Peter Künzi is a native of Switzerland. He received his university education at the University of Berne, from which he graduated with a PhD in 1982 and the Habiliation in 1986.

In 1983 as a postdoc at Virginia Polytech, he impressed the Topology Research Group at UCT with his results in a field later to become known as Asymmetric Topology. He was appointed to an FRD postdoctoral fellowship at UCT for 1986/87. After further research projects in Switzerland and elsewhere, he accepted a Chair in the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at UCT from 1 July 2000. At that stage he was widely recognised as being among the leaders in the wider field of General Topology, and as the undisputed leader in the subfield of Asymmetric Topology. His authoritative survey of (116 pages containing a bibliography of 589 items) in the Handbook of the History of General Topology, Volume 3 (Kluwer, 2001), under the title “Nonsymmetric distances ... asymmetric topology” is evidence of this.

The area of Asymmetric Topology has grown in extent and stature in the past decade in large measure due to Künzi’s work. He has 122 peer-reviewed publications, and a large number of reviews in Zentralbatt für Mathematik and Mathematical Reviews, guest-edited several conference volumes, and is an energetic member of the editorial board of Quaestiones Mathematicae. He holds an A2 NRF rating.

Topology is the abstract mathematical study of space, in fact, of infinitely many kinds of spaces. Classically there was geometry, then algebraic geometry; but classical analysis (differential and integral calculus) needed to look at spatial aspects continuity, and the interaction of all these (and many other things) with algebraic operations. General Topology combines these spatial fine-structural studies with the methods of abstract Set Theory. Here is where the concept of symmetry enters. Metrics measure distances between points, and are symmetric: the distance from x to y equals that from y to x. But should these distances differ, one has asymmetry, and the distance function is called a quasi-metric. The asymmetric spaces provide suitable domains for theoretical computer science, and Asymmetric Topology has become a wide and important field. Künzi’s most recent survey article, An Introduction to Quasi-uniform Spaces, pp 239-304 in the book “Beyond Topology”, 2009, is a monograph with many new results and proofs.

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HONORARY DEGREE

David Edwin PotterDoctor of Science in Engineering

David Potter is an extraordinary entrepreneur who has a strong interest in higher education. Born in South Africa, and nurtured by Alfred Snape (the Professor of Civil Engineering after whom UCT’s Snape Building is named) he was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge and Imperial College where he obtained a PhD, and where he taught, consulted and researched on the use of computers in physics. In 1980 he founded a software company, Psion, the name reflecting complete commitment by his wife and himself to the venture: “Potter scientific instruments or nothing”.

In 1984 using radical technology, Psion invented ‘The Organiser’, the world’s first volume hand-held computers for personal use. Psion led the creation of the Organiser, Palmtop and PDA markets for the next 16 years. Later, Potter led the creation of Symbian Limited in partnership with Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola and Matsushita to create the operating system standard for mobile wireless devices - now known as Symbian.

David Potter served in the 1997 UK National Committee of Inquiry into Higher Education, later as a Board Member of the Higher Education Funding Council for England & Wales, and from 1999 to 2003 was a member of the UK Council for Science and Technology. He is a Visiting Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, Honorary Fellow of Imperial College and Honorary Fellow and Governor of The London Business School, Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineers, and from June 2003 to 2009 was a non-Executive Director to the Bank of England. He serves on the South African President’s Committee on Communication and Information Technology

He and his wife created the David and Elaine Potter Foundation to support projects in education, research and third world development. The Foundation has established a fellowship programme at UCT, supporting and developing South African Master’s and Doctoral students to use their education for the betterment of the South Africa and civil society.

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NAMES OF GRADUANDS/ DIPLOMATES

An asterisk * denotes that the degree or diploma will be awarded in the absence of the candidate.

1. FACULTY OF ENGINEERING AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT

Dean: Professor F W Petersen

POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA IN ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT

*Mubeen Dawood Gaibie Garetshose Minah Goitsemodimo

DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN ENGINEERING

In Chemical Engineering:Murray Keith Armstrong

Timothy Andrew ArthurMichael BaxterStewart Ross Buchanan (with honours)Nickiel BharatKhensani Sandy ChaukeLerato Moira ChaukeJason Kurt Daniels (with honours)Brandon Edwin De GeeKyle Jonathan de SwardtLefu Jonase DlaminiBaveer Sudhir DoolabhTimothy Joshua Egan (with first class honours)Kreevin Ekambaram (with honours)Matthew Ian FerreiraDihajo Anestair FransmanNomvuyo Grace GwijiAkanyang Phineus HottieGlen JansenRonan Bruce Jones (with honours)Kgowane Kenneth KgokoloMopeli Ishmael Khama (with honours)Ntuthuko Khumalo

*Selelo Given Koko (with honours)Elizabeth Camilla Kuiper (with honours)Leshego Novaliwe LedwabaSelaelo Sarah Lekoloane (with honours)Andre Francois Lubbe (with first class honours)Reabetswe Boitumelo Dion MabeNicole Anne MadurayJulius Hlabirwa Magabane (with honours)

Jacqualine Rujeko MagodoSello MalefaneWandile Thoba MambaFarai Takunda Mashayamombe (with honours)Andisani MasindiCarl Masuret (with honours)

Salome Chuba MasweuXolani MelaneEstelle Evette Mills (with first class honours)Ngokoana Priscilla ModibaRizqah Mohamed (with first class honours)Razelle Naidoo (with honours)Karabo Samuel Naleli

*Musa Comfort NdwandweJason Leopold Nikiforakis (with first class honours)Steven NkadimengZonke Ziphelele NtshangaseHebert Simbarashe Nyakunuhwa (with first class honours)Mncedisi Gaybon NyaweniRoshan OsmanMahomed Faizal PanjwaniAndrew Kenney Payne (with first class honours)

*Ronald Phemelo PhefoAnnie Victoria Porter (with honours)Manyana Siphesihle Samson RadebeRotondwa Radzilani

*Nathan RaffertyHilton Rossenrode (with honours)Tito Desmond SepoloaneMichael Short (with honours)Tanaka Casandra ShumbaSihle Silas SibandeShivashkar Singh (with first class honours)Damian Michael StevensTheodore SubramoneyMotena Rahab TakalimaneSusan Margaret Taylor (with honours)Maloba Gerard Tshehla (with honours)Sandeep Valodia (with honours)Michelle van Ryneveld (with honours)Kelly-Anne Whitehead (with honours)Anesu Sharon Wushe (with honours)Craig Johnathan Zinn

In Electrical and Computer Engineering:Shitesh Anantha Arihunta (with honours)Matthew BridgesChipo Chimhundu (with honours)Valerie Edith Chiriseri (with honours)Stephen Gordon HofmeyrShaun George Irwin (with honours)Ziyaad Jassiem

Oluwaseun Charles Jolaoso

Tzu-Chieh KaoShaun Jonathan Katz (with honours)Matthew Brendon KoenJames Joshua Liddiard (with honours)Michael Mudau (with honours)Pius Kavuma Basajjabaka MugaggaNgoni Musabayana (with honours)Timothy Tinashe NhapiMatthew Jeffrey Niemann (with first class honours)Karthik Bharadhwaj RajeswaranBakwanyana Mthunzi ThobelaAshwin Ananthraman VenkatJesse Michael Whaley (with honours)

*Gregory Barnard Wilsenach (with honours)Ishmael Afrika Zukisani Zamela

In Electrical Engineering:Claudio Miguel Buque (with honours)Musonda Chibulu

*Mantlakwane Melvin ChidiSammie Tapiwa ChimusoroHilary Kudzai ChisepoJesse Dicks

Megan Dowling (with honours)Cathleen Robyn ForsythIlhaam GamieldienSusan KageyeUmur Kathree

*Mashangu Khosa (with honours)Mmberegeni Joseph LithudzhaGabriel Tonderai MachindaPatience Mantsie Maditsi (with honours)

*Potego Jimmy MadutlelaPrashil MaganThomas Andrew MainSidwell Matimba MalulekePhumudzo MandiwanaBusika MangesiKagiso John ManziImmaculate Angela Masembe (with honours)Rebaone Morwesi MatheSello Brian MatjilaGomotsang Daniel MatlouSandile Russel MbheleHlengiwe Holliness Mcobothi

*Mashilo Mampshe Moabelo (with first class honours)Neo Eddie MohaiTebello Charmaine MolloRemona MoodleyOtshepeng Johny Moraka (with honours)Tuyenikelao MosesLephakga Amos MotaungSello Meshack MpeleBongifefe Deon MphakamaArun Arjunan NairMpumelelo Brian Ncube

Mbuso Lungani Ntshangase (with honours)Himal Patel (with honours)Michael John Rainey (with honours)Siseko Seve Ballosteros RweqaneNicolas Alexander SaalSulayman Salie (with honours)Magnaem Ngendina SimonNeil Sneyd (with honours)Adrian Dale StevensAlan John WilliamsZhezhang Peter Xu

Lefika Tshepo ZachariahLymech Vusumuzi Zikalala

In Electro-Mechanical Engineering:Timothy Nicholas Bacon (with honours)Andoni George DiamondisJeanne Helene Fourie (with honours)

*Prince Hlakametsa (with honours)Julian Brajanath Kent (with honours)Daniel John MartinJared Karl MompleTebogo Mashaole Richard MotloutsiLuqmaan MukadamMkhokheli NcubeGraeme Raymond Paul (with first class honours)

Walter Ernesto Poquioma Escorcia (with honours)Bokang Sabastin Ratlali (with honours)Dylan Andre SmitAlan James Stewart (with honours)Matthew Robert ThorneStephen Walker (with first class honours)

In Mechanical Engineering:Omar Boltman (with honours)

Caroline Frances Brown (with honours)Sanchez Colin Carolissen (with honours)Mazaher ChaganiSean Andrew DavidsJames Hugo de Villiers

*Byron Mathew DerbyMogammad Mubeen DollieTamutswa DutumaAidan Lloyd Ehrenreich (with honours)Alex George Fenn

*Gabriel Pinzon FernandesJarryd FisherRoberto Luis Nunes Gomes (with honours)Lionel Phenyo Gulubane

Peter Rudi HawThomas Gerard Hamilton (with honours)Zubayr Esmail HussenAndrew William James (with honours)Bevan Walter Stewart Jones (with honours)

*Ross William Keth Natasha Isabel KloppersSimon Charles Thomas LawlessDevon Leukes (with honours)Katlego MakgoaleMmotlo Thabo MareletseShaun Andrew Martin (with honours)Konke MazwaiMichael Stephen McPetrieMonique Linda MederWashington Tawanda Mudenha (with first class honours)Grant Robert Myers (with honours)Tulimoshili Matheus Pendapala NafukaPhilani S’celo NcongwanePombili Ndeunyema (with honours)Ricardo Diaz Negri

*Paul Grey Norton Brett Dylan Ormrod (with honours)Jeremy Sean OsborneNgoako Obed Pitsi (with honours)Siddhartha Ram (with first class honours)Nzudzanyo RanwahaSimone Beverley Samuels (with first class honours)Edward Hilmer SchmidtJosef Nadhipite ShigwedhaWilliam Paul Tipping-WoodsRa’idah Ahmed Vaid (with honours)

Shaun Kyle Versfeld (with honours)Mogamat Fareed Waggie

Michael Tom WatsonAndrew Miles Winstanly (with honours)

In Mechatronics:Muhammad Hanif BanderkerParikshit BohraMateena ConradRunyararo Charmaine DikinyaAbdul-Aziz FishPhillip John Frost (with first class hon-ours)Jatin Ishwarlal HarribhaiDarol Stan Howes

*James InglisAbdullah Jabaar (with honours)Muazzam Kippie (with honours)Tsietsi Victor MajalleKatlego MaodiBenjamin Chaim Meltzer (with first class honours)Nishant MistryDaniel Nduchu MugoPatrick Hezron Mwangi Muthui (with first class honours)Saa-ima Natha (with honours)Siphiwe NdlovuNkosingiphile Kenneth NgcoboNkosinathi Raymond Nkosi

Samuel OgunniyiKatherine Sarah O’Regan (with honours)Oliver Victor Osborn (with honours)Adnaan Parker (with honours)

James Gordon Paterson (with first class honours)Tseliso Ernest RamokhoaStefan Bernd Rieger (with first class honours)Tracy Zama Semmelink (with honours)Brett Garry Sing Gen (with honours)

Russell ThompsonPetrus Tebogo TsajoaKhosi TsejaneRyno Strauss Verster (with honours)Devin Philip Whitfield (with honours)Sean Harry Wright

2. FACULTY OF SCIENCE

Dean: Professor A le Roex

DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE

In Mathematical, Physical and Statistical Sciences:Claire Antel (with distinction in Astrophysics and Physics and the degree with distinction)Bongani Amos BaloyiReona BassudeoDanielle Caron Booysen

*Erik George BritsWillem Stefaan Conradie (with distinction in Applied Mathematics and Mathematics and the degree with distinction)

*Willem Johannes de Villiers*Gabriella Kim Elte*Nashruddin Shah EmamallyBryce Antony GethingCharles GrahamTristan Mark Morkel Hands (with distinction in Applied Mathematics and Mathematics and the degree with distinction)

*Lindsay Joe HansCrescenthia Oldah HoveNabeel JeramJateen KooverjeeWilliam Eugeneovich La Guma

*Letjatji Samuel LegodiBrett Le Roux (with distinction in Applied Mathematics)Amandla Kgosi Mabona (with distinction in Mathematics and the degree with distinction)

*Tafadzwa Madzinga

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Maurice MashauMukelani Mnguni

*Sasha MoolaKudakwashe Evans MupandawanaZuhura Kamwavi MwaleJanelle Naicker

*Mahir NassorMpumelelo Clement Ndlangamandla

*Lazola NgcengulaAbdul Basit Oldey

*Paveshen Padayachee*Dawn Haley PattersonMpho Rudzani RambauGaboutlwelwe SeishoMarlene Letlhogonolo SenneQing ShaoCallie Marsha Shenker (with distinction in Applied Mathematics and Economics and the degree with distinction)Louise Susan Jennifer StewardJessica StillermanMasharty TemboMichael Blyth TomsEve-Lyn Mary van SchoorShane Cedrick van WykSifiso Zakhele Zondo

DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (HONOURS)

In Applied Mathematics:Patrick William AdamsAlexander Dennis AntrobusChristopher Albert Loetscher

(First class) Kevin Sack*(First class) Ryan Baruch Sweke(First class) Carl Veller

In Mathematics:*(First class) Tariq DesaiChipo Eva Annete GumbiePaulus Haihambo(First class) Laura Katharine HaywardMelusi Manqoba Mavuso

In Mathematics of Computer Science:*(First class) Azhar Desai(First class) Neil Robin Goldberg

In Mathematical and Theoretical Physics:Mawande Babuyile LushoziAndile Whitehead

In Statistics:(First class) Jean-Michel Laurence Nairac

In Theoretical Physics:Anthea Claire Field(First class) Jason Alexander Myers(First class) Andrecia Ramnath



DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (HONOURS)

In Materials Science:*Gadija AklekerLee Casalena (with distinction)Tendai ChikonodangaTobile Nokuphiwa KhawulaMarie Sandy MariayeMatseleng Sally Mbengo

*Lwazi QanguleChristopher Shields Scully

*Claire Barbara van den Berg

DEGREE OF MASTER OF ENGINEERING

In Engineering Management:Portia Gcebile Lomagugu Gama

DEGREE OF MASTER OF PHILOSOPHY

In Chemical Engineering:Lesley Kudakwashe Sibanda

In Energy Studies:Joshua James Lawrence BrodrickSivuyile MabodaCaroline Jane Martin

DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE IN ENGINEERING

In Chemical Engineering:*Grant Adrian ApseyVinayak Bhardwaj

Brian ChapondaTrisha Daya

*Frederik Jacobus de Klerk*Reay Gary Dicks*Herman Franz Fuls*Magdalena Maria HaumanChristian Kazadi MbambaWesley Thomas MasseyEmily Ann MusilMuhammad ParakMaxwell Phiri

*Malebogo Pinkie Ralefala Christine Joy Richardson*Rashed Ahmad ShahDitend Kanyik Tesh

In Electrical Engineering:Leila Adams

*Dulce-Maira Boneke NokonokoNeil Anton Valentine BradshawGabrielle CoppezChris de Beer

*Justin Michael DekkerJacques Gerard De La BatLesang Vincent Dikgole

*Jingxu Han*Ka Wing Ho*Gordon Eric InggsJanine Norma JagersHartmut JagauMathew JohnShaun Kaplan

*Khotso Hamilton KetaNaga Rohini KoduriAshley Naomi LiddiardMampi Nakutoma LubasiSmart Charles LubobyaDavid Neil MacleodThulani Ngwashintshokomane NdhlovuMbav Wilfried NguzMichael Nyarko

*Patrick Desmond O’DonoghueAmir PatelDireshni ReddyJan Paul Scholtz

*Simon ScottDavid Robert Johan SharpeJoseph Nguya WamichaMartin Connal WilsonWilliam Andrew Yuill

In Energy Studies:Tara Helena Caetano

*Pieter Coetzee du PlessisRaymond Kimera

*David Mark KitleyLesego Malla

*Simisha Pather-Elias*Richard Daniel Purser

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Qedile Sikhosana*Lee Matthew Smith

In Materials Engineering:*Naseeba Abbas*Aloshan Shaun Chetty

In Mechanical Engineering:Christopher Mark Day

*Peter James Alexander HusemeyerDarryn George Mc Cormick

*Richard Peter MerrettBradley Oaker

*Adam Thane ParsonsErik Green PickeringKathryn Abigail Rosie

*Mamahloko Senatla

4. FACULTY OF SCIENCE

Dean: Professor A le Roex

DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE

In Applied Mathematics: Kakanyo Knowledge Masike(With distinction) Andrea Muller

*(With distinction) James Peter Newling

In Mathematical Statistics:(With distinction) Katya Adrienne Lopes Mauff

In Physics:*Sara Abdelazeem Hassan AbassSiyabonga Ntokozo Thandoluhle Majola

*Lehlohonolo MongaloEmmanuel Tapiwa Musonza

DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

In Statistics:Yan Hong CuiThesis Title: Contributions to statistical machine learning algorithm

Yan Hong Cui has a B.Sc. in Software Engineering, University of Southwest JiaoTong University, Chengdu, China and a M.Sc. in Mathematical Statistics, University of Cape Town, South Africa. He has made contributions to 22 peer-reviewed conference papers and 10

international journal papers based on his PhD research since June, 2008. Yan Hong Cui has conducted his PhD research in the statistical machine learning field, which is a new merging frontier of modern computer science and statistics. In general, a statistical machine learning algorithm has two compositional elements: statistical model selections and optimization scheme. Yan Hong Cui has invented a new five-element string based global optimization scheme, called lambda-algorithm and further developed a new Bayesian statistical model, called probabilistic differential equation associated regression (abbreviated as DEAR) model selecting family so that a new machine learning algorithm, called DEAR-lambda algorithm, is contributed to the modern computational statistics.

Supervisor: Professor R Guo (Statistical Sciences)

Richard TuyiragizeThesis Title: Multi-objective optimization techniques in electricity generation planning

Richard Tuyiragize was born in Uganda, and obtained his BStat and MStat degrees from Makerere University. He started his professional career in 1998 when he was appointed as lecturer in the School of Statistics and Applied Economics at Makerere University. He commenced his PhD in the Department of Statistical Sciences at UCT in 2006. In his thesis, Richard Tuyiragize addresses the problem of modelling electricity planning in a developing country context, with emphasis on Uganda. Two modelling approaches were investigated, namely (multiobjective) mixed integer programming and systems dynamics. In both approaches, key considerations in the developing country context, differentiating this work from other energy modelling, since lack of quantitative information and the need to balance conflicting demands in situations of chronic under-capacity, play an important role. Outputs from the two modelling approaches revealed a considerable level of agreement regarding the main trends. The models have been linked to a simple spreadsheet front-end to allow planners to use the model in exploring future scenarios.

Supervisor: Emeritus Professor T J Stewart (Statistical Sciences)



DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

In Chemical Engineering:Nico Frederick FischerThesis Title: Preparation of nano and ångstrøm sized cobalt ensembles and their performance in the fischer-tropsch synthesis

Nico Fischer was born and raised in Heidelberg in Germany. He has an MSc in Chemical Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe. He has been studying at UCT, in the Department of Chemical Engineering and at the Centre for Catalysis Research, since 2008. His study was conducted under the scientific Synthesis Gas Programme of the national DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Catalysis, c*change. In his PhD study Nico Fischer examined the effects of crystallite size in cobalt-based Fischer-Tropsch carbon monoxide hydrogenation for fuel and chemical production. A novel technique using reverse micelle systems for preparation of evenly sized nano crystallites was developed and optimized. These mono-dispersed crystallites were then deposited onto alumina support material and tested at Fischer-Tropsch reaction conditions. Smaller crystallites displayed a significantly lower metal surface area specific activity. Product selectivity was also affected by changes of crystallite size. Using a variety of experimental techniques it could be shown that different catalytic sites are present on crystallites of different size, evidencing an intrinsically lower activity of small crystallites at Fischer-Tropsch conditions. For the first time it could be shown that oxidation of crystallites can occur at reaction conditions and that smaller crystallites are more susceptible to undergo this undesirable transformation. These findings are considered of crucial importance to ensure maximum metal utilization and therefore a high weight specific catalytic activity in a Fischer-Tropsch process. Supervisor: Professor M Claeys (Chemical Engineering) Co-supervisor: Professor E van Steen (Chemical Engineering)

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Melinda Jane GriffithsThesis Title: Optimising microalgal lipid productivity for biodiesel production

Melinda Griffiths has a BSc in biochemistry and physiology, and a Bsc(Med)(Hons) in cell biology from UCT. She completed an MPhil in bioscience enterprise at Cambridge University. In 2007 she returned to UCT to take up a PhD in Bioprocess Engineering. Melinda Griffiths’s PhD thesis investigated the effect of species choice and culture conditions on the production of oil in microalgae, for biodiesel. She developed methods for measuring growth and lipid content in microalgal cells accurately. Promising species were identified through a literature review of the key characteristics of 55 different microalgae. Here lipid productivity was illustrated as a key selection criterion, over the more typically used lipid content. Eleven of these were selected for comparison experimentally as promising candidates for biodiesel production in terms of growth rate and lipid productivity, as well as lipid profile and ease of harvesting. The effect of nitrogen availability on lipid productivity was investigated by varying the amount and timing of nitrogen feeding in Chlorella vulgaris. Nitrogen limitation enhances the storage of oil, but reduces growth rate. Due to this tradeoff, intermediate levels of nitrogen limitation were found to optimize lipid productivity. Specifically a critical nitrogen content of the algal biomass was associated with the onset of lipid storage. These findings were used to explore appropriate reactor configurations for algal lipid productivity in an integrated manner.

Supervisor: Professor STL Harrison (Chemical Engineering) Co-supervisor: Dr RP van Hille (Chemical Engineering)

Bruce Charles Kloot Thesis Title: A Bourdieuian analysis of foundation programmes within the field of engineering education: two South African case studies Bruce Kloot has a BSc(Chem Eng) from the University of the Witwatersrand and an MSc(Energy Studies) from the University of Cape Town. After teaching Physical Science at high school level for seven years, Bruce took on the role of Academic Development Lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering where he has been for four years. Bruce Kloot’s PhD thesis uses the theoretical framework of the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu to analyse foundation programmes in South African higher education. These initiatives were launched to support disadvantaged black students in the 1980s and are now one of the means by which the Department of Higher Education and Training hopes to transform the sector. The foundation programmes within the engineering faculties at two case study universities, the University of Cape Town and Stellenbosch University, have been chosen for this analysis. The narratives of academics are used to map the social structure of engineering – called the field of engineering education in Bourdieu’s terms – and investigate the impact that foundation programmes have had on this network of power relations. Bruce’s work shows that the university space is historically structured by a valorisation of research which means that foundation programmes, which are driven by a liberal agenda that values teaching and learning, run counter to the logic of the field and are thus marginalised. While, under certain circumstances, foundation programmes can shift the structure of the field, it was found that, in and of themselves, they are unable to meaningfully transform higher education.

Supervisor: A/Professor J Case (Chemical Engineering)Co-supervisor: A/Professor D Marshall (University of the Western Cape)

In Electrical Engineering:Oladayo BelloThesis Title: Multi-layer traffic engineering framework for inter-working multi-hop wireless networks

Oladayo Bello has a BSc(Hons) in Electronics and Electrical Engineering from Obafemi Awolowo University in Nigeria, a BSc(Hons) in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Pretoria, an MSc(Eng) in Electrical Engineering from UCT. She has been reading towards her PhD since 2007 and has several international and local conference and journal publications to her credit. Oladayo Bello’s PhD thesis investigates the challenges of traffic engineering in inter-working multi-hop wireless networks. The concept of inter-working is an approach that enables the integration of existing wireless network technologies for complementary purposes. In order to maximize the benefits of integrating several multi-hop wireless networks, she proposed and designed a multilayer traffic engineering framework. In Oladayo Bello’s PhD thesis, the proposed framework consists of link discovery, resource optimization and routing processes. She developed analytical models for these processes based on the hypothesis posed. The relationship between metrics that ensure the proper functioning of a network was exploited in the development of the analytical models. Simulation performance analyses of the processes were carried out in order to evaluate the performance of the framework. Oladayo Bello’s PhD thesis indicates that with an increase in the number of network users and interfering users, which degrades network performance, the proposed framework improves traffic level quality of service in inter-working multi-hop wireless networks. Thus, network users are able to enjoy seamless network service, anytime and anywhere.

Supervisor: Professor HA Chan (Electrical Engineering) Co-supervisors: Dr A Bagula (Computer Science), Dr O Falowo (Electrical Engineering)

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Guy-Alain Lusilao-ZodiThesis Title: Real-time data flow models and congestion management for wireand wireless IP networks

Guy-Alain Lusilao-Zodi brought to his research on real-time video a strong background in modelling and analysis from the University of Kinshasa, the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences and Stellenbosch University. At UCT between 2008 and the present he submitted a South African patent application for his thesis-related innovation. Guy-Alain Lusilao-Zodi’s PhD thesis proposes a video streaming protocol that regulates the transmission rate for video over the Internet as a best-effort network. Through incipient congestion detection the proposed protocol prevents the loss of video data and, by regulating the transmission rate, accommodates competing Internet’s services. The thesis also proposes an adaptive error-control protocol that dynamically adjusts the number of error-control packets based on the traffic load in the network and the state of the wireless channel. It reduces the number of bad patches in the video received while maintaining the overhead borne by the video channel at a congestion mitigating level. Simulation results of both protocols using video files show an improvement over existing solutions in term of user-perceived quality. Both protocols have already contributed to the commercialisation of a South African real-time video streaming system tested at Meraka Institute, and proved that the concept works very successfully in a real-world situation.

Supervisor: A/Professor ME Dlodlo (Electrical Engineering) Co-supervisors: Emeritus Professor G de Jager (Electrical Engineering), Dr K Ferguson (Meraka Institute, SIR)

Robert George StephenThesis Title: Objective determination of optimal power line designs

Robert Stephen obtained a BSc(Eng) from University of Witwatersrand and Masters Degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Natal and Business from the Wits Business School. He is a Master Specialist at Eskom and has chaired the international Cigré Study Committee on overhead lines. Robert Stephen’s PhD thesis investigates the suitability of various designs of overhead lines in terms of costs and technical adequacy. The objective of the research is to identify at the planning and design stage the optimum group of line designs for any project to develop further into detailed designs and construction. A small set of appropriate technology indicators identified and tested on practical overhead line projects. Robust indicators for both AC and high voltage DC lines are developed.

Supervisor: Professor CT Gaunt (Electrical Engineering)

In Mechanical Engineering:Reuben Ashley GovenderThesis Title: Characterization of glass fibre polypropylene and GFPP- based fibremetal laminates at high strain rates

Reuben Govender graduated from UCT with a BSc(Eng)(Elec Eng) in 2001 and a MSc(Eng) in 2005. Between his undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, Reuben worked at Koeberg Nuclear Power Station. Reuben Governder’s PhD work examined the high strain rate characterization of fibre reinforced polymers using the Hopkinson pressure bar. His PhD focussed on glass fibre reinforced polypropylene, and also included some investigations into various carbon and glass fibre reinforced polymers, including a project at Imperial College London on delamination spall testing. Investigation of delamination failure under impact loading was a core aim of the thesis. He assessed several candidate delamination test methods at quasi-static rates, in order to find a suitable test method to adapt to impact testing. After finding a suitable candidate in the Single Leg Bend delamination test, he realised that existing hopkinson pressure bar bend rigs would not be good enough. His critical review of Hopkinson pressure bar bend rigs led him to a revised design that increased the deflection capacity of the rig by a factor of ten. His PhD has contributed a novel test method and data on the compressive, flexural and delamination properties of GFPP at strain rates ten times higher than previously published.

Supervisor: Professor G Nurick (Mechanical Engineering)Co-supervisor: A/Professor GS Langdon (Mechanical Engineering)

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