Applications and Registrations

Students may apply online (http://uct.ac.za/apply/applications/forms/). In order to apply online a working email address and a South African identity number will be needed, or, in case of an international applicant, the passport number.

Students who are unable to apply online, you may submit a paper application by printing the forms from the link, and sending them to the Admissions office.Tel: (021) 650 2128, Fax: (021) 650 5189/3736 or email: admissions@uct.ac.za

Students are referred to the Faculty Handbook obtainable from The Faculty Office or www.uct.ac.za/apply/handbooks

Fee Enquiries: http://www.uct.ac.za/apply/fees/Contact Fees Office Tel: (021) 650 1704 or Email: fnd-feeeng@uct.ac.za

END5048Z: Transport Modelling Convenor: Associate Professor Mark ZuidgeestThis course aims to develop an advanced understanding of transport modelling principles and skills in working with these models. Topics include: transport modelling types and scales, theory of travel demand modelling, including the four-step transport model (i.e. trip generation, trip distribution, mode choice and traffic assignment), output analysis, land use – transport interaction models, as well as theory of traffic flow dynamics, including capacity assessment, LOS assessment, shockwave analysis, dynamic traffic management and elementary traffic control design. The course ends with a discussion about the link between models and the analytical questions raised by different policy environments.

END5035Z: Management of Transport Supply and Demand Convenor: Associate Professsor Roger BehrensThis course aims to develop an advanced understanding of transport systems management. Topics include: the rationale for the management of transport systems through alternatives to large scale infrastructure provision, transport impact assessment and access management as a means of managing the impacts of new land use development on transport systems, road space management as a means of prioritising public transport vehicles, 'transport system management' as a means of managing travel behaviour, and the use of 'intelligent transport systems' in supply and demand management.

END5070Z: Public Transport Policy and Regulation Convenor: Associate Professor Roger BehrensThis course aims to develop an understanding of public passenger transport system policy analysis an regulation. Topics include: legislative and planning frameworks, public transport policy, paratransit reform, public transport system regulation and competition and quality of service.

setting. System maintenance: asset management; vehicle fleet and rolling stock maintenance and refurbishment.

END5038Z: Integrated Land-use Transport PlanningConvenor: Associate Professor Roger BehrensThis course aims to develop an advanced understanding of the integration of land use planning and transport planning process. Topics include: theoretical perspectives on the relationship between transport systems and urban activity systems, co-evolution of transport systems and urban form, sustainable transport and the problem of 'automobile dependent' cities, planning paradigms and rationales for public intervention into land use and transport systems, legislative, institutional and financial frameworks for land use and transport planning in South Africa, conceptual framing and practical application of approaches to integrated land use-transport planning in the South African context and local and international case studies and experiences.

END5047Z: Transport Demand Analysis & Project Assessment Convenor: Associate Professor Marianne Vanderschuren This course aims to develop an understanding of transport demand analysis and project assessment. Topics include: travel data collection and survey design, data processing and analysis, the link between methodological approaches to transport analysis and the analytical questions raised by different policy environments, theoretical and philosophical backgrounds of assessment and evaluation methods, and techniques for the assessment and evaluation of urban transport proposals.

Important information

Department of Civil Engineering: http://www.civil.uct.ac.za/Civil Engineering Postgraduate Officer: Ms Rowén Geswindt Tel: 021-650 3499 or Email: Rowen.Geswindt@uct.ac.za

Engineering Faculty Office: http://www.ebe.uct.ac.za/Tel: 021- 650 9111 or Email: ebe-faculty@uct.ac.za

The Department of Civil Engineering offers a number of special postgraduate courses, some of which are scheduled to facilitate attendance by practising engineers from industry.

Information on the offered research programmes, course work and potential supervisors are specific to respective departmental research fields, which are:

Civil Infrastructure Management and Maintenance Geotechnical Engineering

Structural Engineering and Materials Transport Studies

Urban Infrastructure Design and Management Water Quality Engineering

Students can consider Masters Degree studies doing only research, doing 2/3 research and 1/3 course work or doing 1/3 research and 2/3 course work. Different courses are offered annually, biennially or triennially.

International Academic Programmes Office: https://www.uct.ac.za/about/iapo/overview/welcome/Tel: 021- 650 5667 or Email: int-iapo@uct.ac.za

Student Housing: http://www.accommodation.uct.ac.za/Tel: 021- 650 650 4934 or Email: ocsas@uct.ac.za

Jammie Shuttle: https://www.uct.ac.za/students/services/jammie/Tel: 021- 685 7135 or Email: jshuttle@uct.ac.za

University of Cape Town: http://www.uct.ac.za/Tel: 021- 650 2700 or Email: ebe-faculty@uct.ac.za

Information and Communication Technology Services:http://www.icts.uct.ac.za/Tel: 021- 650 650 4500 or Email: icts-helpdesk@uct.ac.za

Postgraduate Funding: http://www.uct.ac.za/apply/funding/postgraduate/applicationsTel: 021- 650 3622 or Email: pgfunding@uct.ac.za

CIV5113Z: Structural Dynamics with ApplicationsConvenor: Professor Pilate MoyoDynamic equilibrium of structures. Response of a single degree of freedom system to dynamic excitation: free vibration, harmonic loads, impulse loading and general loading, Response of multi-degree-of-freedom systems. Free vibrations: mass, damping, and stiffness matrices. Rayleigh damping. Forced vibrations: modal superposition and step by step methods. Continuous systems. Applications to seismic design of structures, blast and impact effects on structures and wind engineering.

CIV5114Z: Foundation DesignConvenor: Dr Denis KalumbaThis course aims to furnish participants with the necessary knowledge and design skills required to ensure stability of both the ground, and any structure built in or on the ground. It will introduce participants to the application of theories of soil mechanics, applied mathematics and physics to provide solutions to the serviceability and ultimate limts states of geotechnical structures.

CIV5115Z: Bridge Management and MaintenanceConvenor: Professor Pilate MoyoThe course aims to introduce the principles of bridge management and maintenance. The focus is on both highway bridges and railway bridges. The course provides the basic philosphies behind bridge management systems, the structure of bridge management systems, and the implementation of bridge management systems. Life cycle cost analysis of bridges is discussed.CIV5116Z: Durability and Condition Assessment of Concrete Structures Convenor: Associate Professor Hans BeushausenThis course aims to develop an understanding of durability aspects, service life design, and non-destructive testing of concrete structures. Topics include: concrete deterioration mechanisms, reinforcement corrosion, prevention of concrete deterioration through material selection, mix design and construction, service-life modelling, fire damage to structures, impact of loads on concrete structures; on-site evaluation techniques and non-destructive testing, diagnostic investigations and laboratory testing.CIV5121Z: Design and Modelling of Water Distribution SystemsConvenor: Professor Kobus van ZylThis aim of this course is to provide a structured and practical introduction to the design and modelling of water distribution systems. Water Demand: categories, patterns, calculation, forecasting. Hydraulics of pipe flow: basic equations, single pipe calculation, branched and looped networks, system-and pump characteristics and pressure dependent demand. Hydraulics of storage and pumps. Main Engineering design: choice of pipe materials, valves and other equipment. Pumps: review of pump types and their applications, design of pumping stations, power requirements and energy consumption, auxillary equipment.

CIV5128Z: Pressure Management in Water Distribution SystemsConvenor: Professor Kobus van ZylThis course aims to develop an advanced understanding of the theory and application of pressure management in water distribution systems. Topics include: water loss components and methods, pressure and leakage, impact of pressure on other network parameters, soil-leak interaction, pressure management zones, pressure control, night flow analysis and pressure leakage parameter estimation.

END5042Z: Sustainable Urban SystemsConvenor: Professor Harro von BlottnitzThis transdisciplinary course aims to explore the need for, and ways of, undertaking 'restructuring', including the following: the imperative of sustainable development, general systems theory with respect to the interactions between industrial/urban systems and ecological systems, physical constraints based on energy and mass balances and thermodynamics, the concept of urban metabolism, case studies of industrial and urban systems restructuring in practice, and insight from the literature on disciplinary specialisation and interaction as it relates to sustainable development.

END5043Z: Community DevelopmentConvener: Dr Mercy Brown-Luthango This course aims to explore the involvement of community groups in the provision of infrastructure in the context of a withdrawal of the State from infrastructure development in many cities of the South. The main thrust of this module is to track how current international community development themes shape practice to provide a context for community development as an ideal. Various themes, including governance and livelihoods, the relationship between infrastructure and development, community-driven processes in the context of the “Right to the City” and data-collection techniques, including participatory tools for getting and analyzing information are dealt with at length in this module.

END5036Z: Local Area Transport Planning, Management and Design Convenor: Associate Professsor Roger BehrensThis advanced course includes: the planning and implementation of transport improvements at a local area (as opposed to citywide) scale, urban design, landscaping and geometric design of streets, the design and management of local area movement networks, and accommodating pedestrians, bicycles and persons with movement disabilities in local area movement networks.

END5071Z: Public Transport System Design & Operation ManagementConvenor: Associate Professor Mark ZuidgeestThis course aims to develop an advanced understanding of public passenger transport system design and operations management. Topics include: public transport system concepts, public transport system design, public transport system operations management, integrated fare structures and system maintenance.

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Civil Infrastructure Management and Maintenance Convenor: Associate Professor Hans Beushausen

Tel: 021-650 5181 / email: Hans.Beushausen@uct.ac.za

Geotechnical EngineeringConvenor: Dr Denis Kalumba

Tel: 021-650 2590 /email: Denis.Kalumba@uct.ac.za

CIV5112F: Stability and Design of Steel Structures Convenor: Dr Sebastian SkutullaThis course aims to address advanced topics in constructional steel work. The topics include elastic and inelastic buckling behaviour; plate buckling; non-linear instability behaviour of thin-walled structures, design for fatigue, design of steel-concrete composites, hybrid steel structures, steel connection plate girders and the behaviour of steel structures under fire.

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Advanced Infrastructure Management Durability and Condition Assessment of Concrete Structures Structural Dynamics with Applications Bridge Management and Maintenance CIV5115Z

03 - 07 August 07 - 11 September

CIV5110Z 02 - 06 March CIV5114Z 22 - 26 June

Laboratory and Field Techniques Foundation Design Ground Improvment Techniques CIV5111Z 26 - 30 October

CIV5110Z: Laboratory and Field TechniquesConvenor: Dr Denis KalumbaThis course aims to develop an advanced understanding of laboratory and field techniques in Geotechnical Engineering. Topics include:Laboratory methods; role and scope of laboratory tests; fundamentals of stress-strain and strength measurements; stresses, pore pressures and strains; transducers and control systems; practical applications. The theoretical and practical aspects of in situ tests.

Structural Engineering and MaterialsConvenor: Associate Professor Hans Beushausen

Tel: 021-650 5181 / email: Hans.Beushausen@uct.ac.za

CIV5002Z 07-09 April & 04-05 MayCIV5116Z 29 June - 03 July

03- 07 August

Structural Concrete Properties and Practice Durability & Condition Assess of Concrete Structures Structural Dynamics with Applications Stability and Design of Steel StructuresAdvanced Mechanics of Materials Contract Law for Civil EngineersAn Introduction to Finite ElementsFinite Element Analysis

16 Feb - 12 June

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Transportation StudiesConvenor: Associate Professor Roger Behrens

Tel: 021-650 4757 / email: Roger.Behrens@uct.ac.za Courses Course code Dates

Transport Modelling END5048Z 26 - 30 JanuaryIntegrated Land Use-Transport Planning END5038Z 23 - 27 FebruaryDiscrete Choice Modelling and Stated Choice END5127Z 09 - 13 MarchSurvey DesignManagement of Transport Supply and Demand END5035Z 18 -22 MayPublic Transport Policy and Regulation END5070Z 17 - 21 August

14 -18 September12 - 16 October

09 - 13 November

Transport Demand Analysis and Project Assessment END5047Z Public Transport System Design and Operations END5071Z ManagementLocal Area Transport Planning, Managament and END5036Z Design

Urban Infrastructure Design and Management Convenor: Associate Professor Mark van Ryneveld Tel:

021-650 2605 / email: Mark.Vanryneveld@uct.ac.za Courses Course code Dates

CIV5064Z 23 - 27 March END5042Z 11 - 15 May END5043Z 13 - 17 July

Urban Transition in the Global South Sustainable Urban Systems Community Development Urban Renewal Integrated Urban Water Management

CIV5065Z 31 Aug - 04 Sept CIV5107Z 05 - 09 October

Water Distribution Systems Convenor: Professor Kobus Van Zyl

Tel: 021-650 2325 / email: Kobus.Vanzyl@uct.ac.za

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CIV5128Z 13 - 17 April

CIV5121Z 28 Sept- 02 Oct

Pressure Management in Water Distribution SystemsDesign and Modelling of Water Distribution Systems

NB: The Water Quality Programme does not have any courses on offer in 2015.

CIV5067Z: Advanced Infrastructure Management Convenor: Emeritus Professor Romano Del MistroThis course provides a basic overview of Advanced Infrastructure Management (AIM), setting up AIM, AIM techniques and advanced AIM techniques.

CIV5002Z: Structural Concrete Properties and PracticsConvenor: Associate Professor Hans BeushausenThe aims of the course are to provide structural engineers with fundamental and practical knowledge in concrete materials technology; to establish an understanding on modelling and designing concrete properties relevant to structural design, and to create awarenes on chemical and physical characteristics of cementitious construction materials.

2015 Postgraduate Course Information

CIV5064Z: Urban Transitions in the Global South Convenor: Professor Edgar PieterseThe aim of the course is to prvide students with a wide-ranging introduction to the dynamics of differential urbanization processes in the global South with an eye on understanding the role of infrastructure in advancing more sustainable urban forms and patterns.CIV5065Z: Urban Renewal Convenor: Professor Edgar PieterseThis course aims to develop an advanced understanding of urban renewal context and policy. Urban transformation is an international phenomenon caused by a range of factors including urbanisation, migration trends, globalisation and poverty. The process of urban change does not affect all cities equally or in the same manner, but the overall trend is towards greater polarisation and lack of balance between concentrations of wealth and poverty within and between cities.

CIV5111Z: Ground Improvement TechniquesConvenor: Dr Denis KalumbaThis course aims to introduce participants to the concepts underpinning a range of ground improvements and soil remediation techniques and an appreciation of how these techniques are applied in practice.

16 Feb - 12 June

CIV5107Z: Integrated Urban Water Management Convenor: Professor Neil ArmitageThe course aims to introduce students to integrated urban water management. This includes social imperatives; environmental considerations; politics and water services delivery.CIV5108Z: Advanced Mechanics of MaterialsConvenor: Dr Sebastian SkutullaThis advanced course in mechanics of materials aims to introduce students to physical mechanisms of deformation of common construction materials, contiuum mechanics and its main mathematical tool, tensor analysis; non-linear continuum material behaviour, including visco-elasticity, plasticity and modelling, failure and fracture characteristics and modelling of these effects.

CIV5025F: Contract Law for Civil EngineersConvenor: Associate Professor Hans BeushausenThe course reviews the Law of Contract to develop a framework for the analysis of standard documentation for both main and subsidiary civil engineering contracts. Important aspects of mediation, arbitration and court procedures are stressed as is the need to identify and resolve legal problems through timeous negotiation.

16 Feb - 12 June16 Feb - 12 June

CIV5113Z CIV5112F CIV5108Z CIV5025F MEC5063Z MEC5064Z 16 Feb - 12 June