On July 20 th 2017, F’SATI proudly graduated 6 new MSc students from the CPUT Satellite Programme.
The inaugurated graduates were:
The assembly was also graced by a special visitor Mr Olivier Buchbinder the Ambassador for Cooperation and Cultural Affairs at the French Consul General in Cape Town.
The Technology Station: Clothing and Textiles hosted a group of 26 Young Entrepreneurs from Atlantis (± 75 KM from Cape Town on the West Coast) on a screen printing training programme. The training hopefully helps these entrepreneurs to add value to their fabrics.
The Technology Station: Clothing and Textiles would like to thank Patrick and Bradley of National Screen Digital Supplies who selflessly gave of their resources and time to the project, Mrs. Geraldine Geswindt who made the initial contact with the Technology Station: Clothing and Textiles, Mr. Charles Martienesen, principal of Atlantis Senior Secondary School who noted his willingness to accommodate the entrepreneurs as an incubator and TIA for supporting the Technology Station: Clothing and Textiles to extend its footprint.
For further Information
Contact Rushdeen
Technology Station: Clothing and Textiles, Project Manager
email: RoseR@cput.ac.za
The Technology Station Clothing and Textile (TSCT) in conjunction with the Technology Innovation Agency attended the National Science Week exhibition held at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (Missionvale Campus, Port Elizabeth) on Saturday the 5th August 2017. The TSCT staff viz. Deidre, Lisa, and Daniel conducted 3D body scans of visitors to the stall.
For 3D Body Scanning/size studies
Contact: Deidre Windvogel
Tel: 021 959 6821/6826 EMAIL : WindvogelD@cput.ac.za
Innovator, Shalton Mothwa displays his patented AOEN bag (Wifi Recharging bag) at the National Science Week exhibition. The project was a collaboration between the Technology Station Electronics (TSE) based at Tswane University of Technology and the Technology Station Clothing and Textile (TSCT) based at CPUT.
CPUT lecturers have contributed their own time and skills to assist disadvantaged individuals empower themselves with a saleable skill.
The Technology Station Clothing and Textiles (TSCT) along with the City of Cape Town Enterprise Development Unit have been visiting impoverished communities around the Peninsula, informing them about support they could provide.
On one of these visits the TSCT met up with a group of SMME’s (small, medium and micro enterprises) in Mfuleni that required support, says TSCT manager, Shamil Isaacs.
The TSCT developed a six-hour pull-on skirt programme, which enables the SMMEs to gain enough basic skills to develop and sew a basic pull-on skirt which they can make to sell.
The main objective is to transfer knowledge through university resources to empower disadvantaged communities.
This will allow them to create opportunities for themselves and indirectly stimulate a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship.
The programme was conducted over two half days.
Deidre Windvogel, the lab technician responsible for product development at the TSCT, provided instructions on how to make a pull-on skirt pattern and using simple techniques create individual designs and make fit adjustments. This was conducted at Lookout Hill in Khayelitsha.
Norma Wagenaar, the lab technician responsible for garment technology in the Clothing and Textile Technology Department, took the participants through the paces of sewing the skirt and ensuring that a high, saleable quality standard was achieved.
A total of 32 participants from Mfuleni received training and a more advanced programme is being planned for the future.
The TSCT is based at the Bellville Campus and provides support to SMMEs in the Clothing and Textile sector
It’s been a tough week for five members of the CPUT community. Staffers Etienne Joubert and Etnard Louw, alumni Sarita Louw and Seraj Abrahams, and student Mteza Boya have spent the past 8 days competing in the Absa Cape Epic, Africa’s toughest mountain bike stage race.
Etienne and Sarita took part in the Absa Cape Epic as Team CPUT, Seraj and Mteza made up Team CPUT PPS, while Etnard (Sarita’s husband) rode as part of Constantia Uitsig.
Earlier in the week Etienne was forced to withdraw due to illness, leaving Sarita to finish her Absa Cape Epic journey solo.
On Sunday riders crossed the finish line at Meerendal after completing an arduous 654 km journey.
Seraj and Mteza finished 192nd overall and 106th in the Mens category. Etnard and his teammate finished 56th overall and 42nd in the Mens category. Sarita achieved the shortest time of the individual finishers in the Mixed category.
Some of the best riders in the world come to compete in the Absa Cape Epic and finishing the race is an achievement in itself.
This was Seraj, Mteza, Sarita and Etnard’s first Cape Epic, while Etienne has completed 5 Absa Cape Epics.
The Absa Cape Epic made its way through some of the most scenic parts of the Western Cape and riders also enjoyed the friendliness of CPUT’s Wellington Campus for a few days.
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It’s all downhill now as one of the world’s toughest mountain bike races draws to a close and yet again, CPUT has excelled in hosting stage 4 of the race. Competitors, students, staff and onlookers all flocked to CPUT’s stand to try their luck in winning a thirty thousand Rand mountain-bike, and check out student innovations on display. The exposure and publicity the event gives to the Cape and South Africa is huge, with CPUT and the Wellington Campus reaping these benefits.
Riders from Team CPUT PPS, Seraj Abrahams and Mteza Boya mingled happily with the crowds. The pair are still looking fresh and fit despite the arduous challenges they’ve faced so far. Team CPUT suffered a severe setback however when Etienne Joubert had to withdraw from the race – his partner Sarita Louw is now riding solo.
Riders have now broken the back of the arduous race but there are still hundreds of kilometres to go in the “Tour de France” of mountain-biking. The Epic is the most televised mountain bike race of all time. Since its inception in 2004, the Absa Cape Epic has generated more than 24 500 hours of TV coverage in Europe, America, the Middle East, Asia and Africa. You can catch the very exciting final stage or Grand Finale of the race on Sunday 20 March on Supersport 6 from 09:45am – 13.30pm.
With four days to go until the start of the world’s toughest mountain bike race, CPUT’s Wellington campus is a hive of buzz and excitement. Voted the best host village last year, the beautiful Winelands town will host not just riders, spectators and media, but our very own multi-disciplinary team of students from various departments, who are pitching in to make the event a success.
The Sports Management Department has been instrumental in the trials, selection, training and support of the four riders who will race in CPUT colours. 75 people applied to race. Only 11 applicants eventually completed a battery of physiological tests at the Human Performance Lab at the Mowbray Campus.
Participants also took part in psychometric testing conducted by Student Counselling on the Bellville Campus. This was done to ensure riders have the mental toughness to stay the course. Students from our Journalism Department have been on hand to photograph and document the riders’ journeys, while the hardworking technicians from Student Affairs’ Student Media Department have provided video and sound support and made promotional videos for CPUT’s teams and Beat the Best competition.
CPUT’s Marketing and Communications Department (MCD) have championed the event, spearheading coordination, logistics, clothing, as well as online and social media support.
Our Advancement Department has been instrumental in raising the sponsorships and financial support necessary to enter our two teams. Truly a collaborative effort, that is sure to bring massive positive exposure to CPUT.
Etnard Louw, who works at CPUT’s F’SATI, is an excited man. He’s about to tackle his first Absa Cape Epic, which begins Sunday 13th March. Etnard graduated with an MTech in Electrical Engineering in 2015 (and is currently awaiting the results of his M.Sc.) He works as part of the development and design team of the next Cubesat, ZACUBE 2, which should be finished at the end of 2016 and launched in 2017. He also manages the production of one of the satellite telecommunications radios that was developed by F’SATI and turned into a commercial product.
Etnard is also part of a “racing family” – wife Sarita Louw, part of Team CPUT entered in the Epic, is a brilliant competitive cyclist who often achieves podium finishes.
“It’s great to both be involved in the sport, especially when it comes to the serious training and spending long hours on the bike. Non-cyclists don’t understand that it takes so much time. Sarita usually competes for podium so it’s difficult to equal her outstanding results but she’s a good training partner and we often have a good laugh about things while we are out training.”
Etnard says his training for the big race is going very well.
“I have never trained this hard before. This is my first Epic and I’m super excited, but also nervous as so many things could go wrong. Mentally I am ready, I have found that I get stronger as the racing gets longer so I’m counting on that to pull me through.”
Etnard is pictured here with Brenda Joubert. Etnard’s wife Sarita is racing the Absa Cape Epic with Etienne Joubert, Brenda’s husband.
Can you Beat the Best?
CPUT is giving away a brand new, top-end, mountain bike.
Visit our stall at the Wellington stages of the Absa Cape Epic, pedal as hard as you can on our stationary bike, and you could win this awesome prize.
When: 16 & 17 March, 8:00-16:00
Where: CPUT Wellington at the CPUT stand
The Competition is open to any person attending the Absa Cape Epic 2016 Wellington race village excluding any company representative, family or directly linked associate of the provider, organizer or service provider of the competition. Any professional athlete, regardless of sport, is also hereby excluded from being eligible of winning the main prize of the competition.
