Awards for top BTech engineering graduates

The Institutute of Professional
Engineering Technologists (IPET) has awarded the best BTech engineering
graduates from across South Africa for their excellent academic achievements.
This annual event honours the best male and female graduate across all
engineering disciplines, from each university, as well as the top achievers
across all the universities. These awards are made on the basis of engineering
BTech students achieving top marks in this qualification, according to the
educational requirement for registration as professional Engineering
Technologist with the Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA), since around
1984.

The top male
achiever, Sandro Duarte Cesar, who graduated in Chemical Engineering at the
Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT), had an average of 84% and
received a 75 mm gold-plated medal and a framed certificate. The top female was
Asavela Sigonya from the University of Johannesburg (UJ). She graduated in
Electrical Engineering with an average of 82.75%, also receiving a medal and
certificate. She is currently a Master’s Candidate at UJ. The other graduates
each received a 60 mm gold-plated medal and certificate.

IPET has a long history, stretching
from the sixties and strives to improve the image and status of engineering technologists of
all disciplines and is hard at work to ensure that they get the recognition
they so richly deserve. It determines the standards for the registration of
Professional Technologists (Engineering).

IPET has succeeded
in getting the National Building Regulations altered to authorise professional
technologists to sign building plans as competent persons. It has provided
exclusivity in its membership by allowing only Professional Engineering
Technologists as full corporate members of the Institute.

It has for years
been trying to get full recognition for the engineering technologist in all spheres of
Government and Industry, and it is continuing the battle. It is instrumental in the provision of
Liability Insurance for its members in private practice. IPET assists
applicants who have been unsuccessful in obtaining registration as Professional
Engineering Technologists in obtaining this sought-after status.

A very important benefit
is the fact that technologists registered with IPET are eligible for substantial
CPD points annually.

More information
from Johan de Koker, 083 388 8164

Email:
[email protected]