Sea Technology Services has a well-established Engineering Student training, skills development and mentorship program
During the 2011 to 2020 period, Sea Technology Services has provided In-Service Oceanographic/Marine Electronic Engineering training for 23 Electronic Engineering Technicians/Engineers towards obtaining their National Diplomas, Electrical Engineering (Light Current), in support of the national transformation and engineering capacity building objectives. Seven of the Engineering Technicians have gone on to also do their B-Tech Electrical Engineering Degrees under STS mentorship, with their B-Tech projects having direct benefits for related projects being undertaken by STS.
STS has permanently employed a number of the Engineering Technicians trained under this mentorship program, as well as supplied Engineering Technicians to the broader pool of South African Engineers. Cooperative links have also been formed with the Engineering Departments of Cape Peninsula University of Technology, University of Cape Town and Durban University of Technology.
STS has a core of highly trained Electronic Engineers with extensive experience in the oceanographic scientific and marine engineering fields, able to impart the following skills and knowledge to students under their mentorship:
Electronic and software engineering (see Appendix A for list of software capabilities)
Mechanical engineering (Marine and industrial)
Oceanographic research and survey systems
Ship, small boat and general marine
General technologies
List of software packages that Sea Technology Services staff are proficient in
Application software: | Engineering packages: | ||
1 | C/C++ | 1 | EPLAN Electric P8 |
2 | C# | 2 | Altium Designer |
3 | Basic | 3 | AutoCAD |
4 | Assembler | 4 | Autodesk Inventor |
5 | Delphi | 5 | SolidWorks |
6 | Visual Studio | 6 | Design Spark |
7 | Eclipse | 7 | SciLab |
8 | Java | 8 | Electronics Workbench |
9 | Qt | 9 | MultiSim |
10 | mono | 10 | LabView |
11 | .net | 11 | GerbTool |
12 | Linux BASH | 12 | EagleCAD |
13 | Windows Shell | 13 | Tango |
14 | GNS3 (CISCO) | 14 | dsPICWorks |
15 | VHDL | 15 | GIMP |
16 | SSH | 16 | Inkscape |
17 | PicoDos / PDos | 17 | Arduino |
18 | CR Basic | 18 | Raspberry Pi |
19 | Fritzing | ||
Embedded software: | 20 | Google Application | |
1 | Embedded C on 8/16/32 bit platforms (PIC8,16,32 ARM Cortex M4) | 21 | QGis |
2 | Eclipse GNU/ARM | 22 | SAGA GIS |
3 | MPlab / MPLABx | 23 | ArcGIS |
4 | Lua | 24 | vim |
25 | Tera Term Language | ||
Server side software: | 26 | MatLab | |
1 | Apache | 27 | WireShark |
2 | Python | 28 | TelNet |
3 | Javascipt / JQuery | 29 | Google Earth |
4 | CSS | 30 | Maperitve |
5 | HTML5 | 31 | Regulus OS |
6 | AJAX | 32 | Riverbed Modeler |
7 | Websockets | 33 | CISCO Packet Tracer |
8 | XML | 34 | gPhoto |
9 | SOAP | 35 | OrCad |
10 | curl | ||
11 | PHP | ||
12 | MySQL | ||
13 | ASP.net | ||
14 | Leaflet | ||
15 | Mapbox | ||
16 | TileMill | ||
17 | KML | ||
18 | Git / Gitlab | ||
19 | WAMP / LAMP | ||
20 | WordPress | ||
21 | Joomla | ||
22 | Phonegap | ||
23 | Chrome Apps | ||
24 | GeoJSON / JSON | ||
25 | NetCDF |