ICTS has been contracted by the Engineering & Built Environment faculty to manage all of the electrical and mechanical engineering labs. Theo Armstrong, the Lab Administrator, together with the Assistant Lab Administrators and Lab Assistants, manages lab bookings, assists the faculty staff and students where necessary and ensures that students abide by the lab rules as set out in the General Rules and Polices handbook (page 56).
Access to the labs
| Lab | Who can use it? | Number of PCs | Location of lab |
| Design Studio Lab – Chemical Engineering | Chemical Engineering undergraduate students only | 122 | Basement level, Chemical Engineering Building |
| CAE Lab – Mechanical Engineering | Mechanical Engineering undergraduate students only | 110 | Menzies Building |
| Elec-Mech Lab | Mechanical Engineering, Electrical-mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics students. | 21 | Electrical Mechanical Engineering Building |
| Green lab | A discretionary use lab, open to all students but gives preference to teaching | 80 | 3rd Floor, Menzies Building |
| Red and Red Extension Labs | Primarily used for Engineering teaching classes | 81 (25) | 5th Floor, Menzies Building |
| Computational mechanics lab | Used for teaching only | 35 | 3rd Floor, New Engineering Building |
Opening hours
| Lab | Term time | Times | Vacations | Times |
| Monday - Sunday | Office Hours: 08:30 - 16h30 | Closed during June and December vacations | |
| Note: all labs except the Green Lab are used for teaching purposes only. The Green lab is accessible 24 hours. | ||||
| Monday - Friday | 08h30 - 16h30 | Closed during June and December vacations | |
| Weekends and Public Holidays | Closed | |||
| Note: all labs are used for teaching purposes only. | ||||
Your lab administrators
| Lab Administrator | Room 5.36, Level 5, Menzies Building |
| Assistant Lab Administrators | Malissa Louw Green Lab, Level 3, Menzies building malissa.louw@uct.ac.za 021 650 5201 |
What software is available in the EBE labs?
The standard lab software is available in the labs. In addition, the following software is available in EBE labs.
| Lab | Design Studio Lab - ChemEng | CAE lab - MechEng | Elec-Mech Lab | Green Lab | Red Lab (Red Extension) | Computational Mechanics Lab |
| ABAQUS | ||||||
| ABAQUS Student Edition | ||||||
| AccelrysDraw-4.x | ||||||
| ADINA | ||||||
| Altium Designer | ||||||
| ArcGIS | ||||||
| Argus | ||||||
| Argus Developer | ||||||
| Argus Enterprise | ||||||
| ASPEN/HYSYS | ||||||
| AutoCad | ||||||
| AutoDesk Suite | ||||||
| Autospec | ||||||
| BC55 | ||||||
| CandyCSS | ||||||
| CES EduPack 2014 | ||||||
| chemsepLite6.XX | ||||||
| Cloudcompare | ||||||
| CMapTools (latest) | ||||||
| COCO | ||||||
| Code Warrior | ||||||
| CodeBlocks_Fortran | ||||||
| CostX | ||||||
| Dev-C++ | ||||||
| devcpp-4.9.9.2_setup.exe | ||||||
| devFlowcharter | ||||||
| dia-setup | ||||||
| Draftsight | ||||||
| EAGLE CAD | ||||||
| Eclipse CDT | ||||||
| Eclipse Plugin: embsysregview | ||||||
| Eclipse Plugin: GNU ARM Eclipse | ||||||
| Epanet | ||||||
| ExcelCAPEOPENUnitOperationSetup. | ||||||
| FEKO Suite | ||||||
| Foxit reader + foxit reader add-ons | ||||||
| gcc-arm-none-eabi | ||||||
| GeoGebra - latest | ||||||
| gfortran-windows | ||||||
| ghostscript | ||||||
| ghostview | ||||||
| gimp | ||||||
| gnuplot | ||||||
| Jabref | ||||||
| JKsimfloat chemeng | ||||||
| Labview | ||||||
| LaTeX | ||||||
| Leica True View | ||||||
| Libre Office | ||||||
| LT Spice | ||||||
| lyxwin | ||||||
| make.exe and rm.exe | ||||||
| MathCad | ||||||
| Matlab | ||||||
| maxima | ||||||
| Miktex | ||||||
| MS Excel solver | ||||||
| MS Project | ||||||
| MS Visio | ||||||
| NI AWR Design Environment Microwave Office | ||||||
| Notepad++ | ||||||
| openocd | ||||||
| projectlibre | ||||||
| PROKON | ||||||
| Python | ||||||
| QSPlus International | ||||||
| Quantum GIS | ||||||
| ScanIt1.0.7.exe | ||||||
| Scilab5.5.1 | ||||||
| ScilabCapeOpenUnitOperationSetup | ||||||
| ScilabThermoImportSetup. | ||||||
| Simapro Chemeng | ||||||
| Simul_C_EM | ||||||
| Simulink | ||||||
| SketchUp Pro | ||||||
| Solid Works 2014 | ||||||
| SolidWorks | ||||||
| stlink-v2 driver | ||||||
| TexMaker | ||||||
| WEST 2014 | ||||||
| Wing IDE 101 | ||||||
| WinQS | ||||||
| WinSCP | ||||||
| Xming |