Visiting the CPUT International Office

Cape Town, Thursday 20th October 2011 - On our way to security to get our ID-cards we passed the CPUT International Office. Just before the Dutch flag is hoisted The HydroCruisers make a groupphoto. And of course, under the direction of our fun engineer the result is not ordinary.

It's not hard to guess who our fun engineer is.

Dinner served at lodgings

Cape Town, Monday 17th October - Here you see the food from Sweet Chilli Pepper being deliverd in our own lodgings. Wow, very good service indeed!

Sorting out the deliveries. As hungry Dutchmen we attack the delicacies.

Video conference between Cape Town and Delft

Cape Town, Thursday 20th October 2011 - Now it is the turn of The HydroCruisers to give a presentation on their car. Problem was that the car is standing in Delft and not in Cape Town. Ah, but modern technology enables live communication between both places about 10,000 km apart. The members of the HydroPulse team made an interactive virtual tour along the vehicle in Delft.

 The participants of the video conference. On the wall the live images from Delft.

Video conferencing on engineering topics is fun!

The audience watching the video conference happening.

Visiting the workshop of the Hydropulse team

Cape Town, Wednesday 19 October 2011 - Here The HydroCruisers meet te members of the HydroPulse team in their very own domain. In this lab the ecocar of the South African team is assembled. The plug is prepared for further  processing.

Mechanical engineers of both teams gathered around the plug of the HydroPulse team.

Please, Maurits, do admit that you did not build this plug on your own!

Discussing the iternerary or some other important document.

The electrial engineers of The HydroCruisers team inspect inspect the fuel cell of the Hydropulse team.

Mechanical engineers have a talk amoungst eachother.

The plug of the HydroPulse team in status nascendi.

Welcome Dinner at Kaprino's

Cape Town, Tueday 18th October 2011 - A welcome dinner was served at Kaprino's, a seafood restaurant in the centre of Cape Town.You could eat as much as you like. Trouble was getting it yourself. Kaprino's is a master in making deserts.

The HydroCruisers at Kaprino's.

 

The projectmanagers.

CPUT Campus tour

Cape Town, Tuesday 18th October 2011 - After lunch the party was guided by Badroen and Fareed along the workshops of Mechanical Engineering.

Here The HydroCruisers are looking at one of the pricewinning minibugs students of Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering have built.

 

Wheelchair, another example of the projects which students of Mechanical Engineering carry out.

 

Standing at the hoovercraft project.

Second shifts arrives

Cape Town, Tuesday 18th October 2011 - Just before lunchtime the second shift of The HydroCruisers, i.e. Tjeerd, Pim, Arjan and Jasper, arrives in Cape Town. Nawaal and Badroen collected them at the airport. On the picture you see the team enjoying their first South African lunch. Actually they are longing for a bed to rest, but sorry to say, a campus tour is the next issue on the programme. Yeah, sometimes an excursion is harder than an attempt during the Shell Eco-marathon.

Notice the project management sitting in the background and wandering what they are doing there. Typical attitude of our management ... thinking about policies ...