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| TTshepisoSAT before launch in 2013 |
On 21 November 2017, TshespisoSAT has celebrated four years of functionality in orbit!
This is a remarkable achievement for a CubeSat that the F’SATI team at CPUT is extremely proud of.
During the F’SATI Executive Management Board meeting that took place in Paris on the 4th July 2017 at the Headquarters of the CCIR-Paris IDF, TUT and ESIEE PARIS signed a Memorandum of Understanding. The MoU is aimed at reinforcing the F'SATI collaboration between TUT and ESIEE Paris for academic programmes (joint Master’s), research collaboration, exchange of academics and students between TUT and ESIEE Paris.
The approved Erasmus+ grant will enable the support for mobility between TUT and ESIEE Paris.
CPUT and the University of Montpellier signed a Memorandum of Understanding to promote academic and research collaboration between those institutions and the F'SATI.
The University of Montpellier boasts a prestigious nano-satellite programme, hosted by CSU Montpellier-Nîmes.
The formalisation of the collaboration between the two institutions is therefore an important step towards further developing the satellite engineering programme at F"SATI CPUT, and expanding collaboration with French institutions.
A new Erasmus+ Mobility Interchange for Credits programme between TUT and ESIEE Paris was approved by the European Comission. The mobility project targets a “South-African-France Student Mobility Programme for Smart Cities and ICT Development between Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) through the F'SATI and ESIEE Paris, School of Electronics and Computer Science Engineering, in Paris, Marne-la- Vallée. The objective of the mobility will be to strengthen the links between TUT and ESIEE Paris, in the general field of ICT, Electronics and Informatics. It will give a strong focus specifically in the field of ICT for smart cities, with topics including Energy, Internet of Things for health and environment, security and big data.
Notice of the approval of the project was made in June 2017.
F’SATI CPUT was invited to exhibit at the occasion of the DST Budget Vote, 16 May 2017.
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| Minister Naledi Pandor and Dr Phil Mjwara (DG of DST) engage with the F’SATI engineers at our exhibition during the DST Budget Vote, 16 May 2017. | Minister Naledi Pandor shares a lighter moment with our students after the DST Budget Vote Speech in Parliament. |
His Excellency Christophe Farnaud, the new Ambassador of France to South Africa visited TUT and its F’SATI on the 8th of May 2017. During the visit, the Ambassador had the opportunity to visit the F’SATI facilities, meet with F’SATI students as well as meet with visiting students from ESIEE Paris. He was also given a presentation of the various projects at F’SATI TUT.
The Ambassador provided a keynote address at the graduation ceremony of Electrical Engineering Students. During the ceremony, a total of 6 Doctorate students graduated, 2 in co-tutelle with French institutions.
During this 2017 year the F’SATI has been submitted to an Audit from the NRF in order to evaluate the evolution and the performances of the Institute between 2008 and 2015.
The panel was composed by the Professor FJW Hahne, Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Study, the Dr Y Guenon, Izibani Consultancy, South Africa and the Professor F Septier, IMT Lille Douai, France. The key mission of this audit was to determine how sustainable the institute was in its current form and to suggest what improvements should be made in the future. On this occasion, the management of the F'SATI was led to write a self-assessment report to prepare the work of the audit committee. Then, the Institute's Board of Directors also proposed a series of responses to the suggestions and remarks of the auditors.
The result of the audit is largely positive and the following documents mentioned above can be consulted on demand in the F'SATI offices.
• The Self-Evaluation Report,
• The Review of the F’SATI Programme 2008-2015,
• The Management Response to the Evaluation of the French South African Institute of Technology (F’SATI).
