Ernesto Ismail

Senior Lecturer

Room 215.2, Electrical Mechanical Engineering Building, UCT Upper Campus

Qualifications: 

  • BSc Eng (Mech) UCT 2006
  • MSc Eng (Mech) UCT 2009

Undergraduate Teaching:    

  • MEC2045S (Applied Engineering Mechanics)
  • MEC3075F (Computer Methods for Mechanical Engineering)

Postgraduate Teaching:

  • MEC5067Z (Nonlinear Material Behaviour)

Research Affiliations:

  • Centre for Research in Computational and Applied Mechanics (CERECAM)

Research Interests:    

  • Finite element methods
  • Iso-geometric analysis
  • Strain-induced crystallisation in polymers
  • Shear-banding and other localisation effects
  • Modelling of biological materials
  • Machine learning for process optimisation