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Programme 03 14 Workstreams UCT Faculty of Engineering & the Built Environment

Research at every stage of the vehicle.

Tukzie is a live engineering programme, structured as fourteen parallel workstreams — from vehicle architecture and battery systems to digital-twin integration and grid connection. Each workstream sits inside the same running prototype.

01Programme Index

Fourteen workstreams. One vehicle.

Jump to any workstream
02Workstreams In Detail

Every subsystem is owned by someone who has to defend it.

Open a workstream to see its purpose, current focus and connections to the rest of the programme. Details are hidden by default so the index stays readable; nothing essential lives inside the accordion.

03Development Process

From question to prototype to test.

Each workstream travels the same path. Steps that are still open are labelled as such; nothing is presented as complete unless it is.

Problem

What is the real engineering question and what would answering it enable?

Definition

Concept

Options are explored on paper and in early models before hardware is committed.

Exploration

Prototype

The chosen concept becomes a physical or embedded implementation on the vehicle.

In development

Test

Prototype v2 is currently in structured field evaluation on and around campus.

Currently active

Iterate

Findings from testing return to the workshop and shape the next revision.

Planned
04Collaborate

Every workstream has room for another engineer.

If one of these workstreams is aligned with your research, teaching or engineering practice, the Tukzie programme welcomes contact through Get Involved.