Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Teaching Experiences
Interests And Skills
Publications
References
Timeline
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Katlego Lentswe

Katlego Lentswe

Lecturer
Potchefstroom

Summary

I deliver a first-class learning experience through a well-balanced mixture of lectures, tutorials, and laboratory sessions. I'm passionate about giving an exceptional student experience to those who teach. As an experienced professional, I will have no trouble developing teaching resources and materials that support effective learning in line with the university's course requirements. In short, I have the required expertise to teach, supervise, mentor, and carry out research projects.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
22
22
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Lecturing

North West University
01.2023 - Current
  • Responsible for compiling lecture notes, setting assessments, exams, and marking
  • Responsible for conducting tutorials and practicals.
  • Take part in the department's curriculum planning, design, and reviews
  • Responsible for carrying out outreach programs to the community and institutions of learning.
  • Strengthened communication skills through regular interactions with others
  • Worked effectively in fast-paced environments
  • Passionate about learning and committed to continual improvement
  • Demonstrated a high level of initiative and creativity while tackling difficult tasks
  • Managed time efficiently to complete all tasks within deadlines
  • Gained extensive knowledge in data entry, analysis, and reporting

Data Science intern

Standard Bank
02.2023 - 03.2023
  • Version control, exploratory data analysis, model building and selection, optimization, and data cleaning.
  • Applied statistical methods for robust analysis of complex datasets in various domains, such as marketing, finance, or operations
  • Optimized machine learning models for improved prediction accuracy and performance
  • Developed custom algorithms to solve unique challenges in data analysis and modeling

Lecturer and Research Assistant

North-West University
01.2020 - 12.2022
  • Responsible for compiling lecture notes, setting assessments, exams, and marking
  • Responsible for conducting tutorials and practicals
  • Take part in the department's curriculum planning, design, and reviews
  • Responsible for carrying out outreach programs to the community and institutions of learning.
  • Responsible for performing experiments on solar parabolic dish cookers, thermal energy storage pots, and thermal energy storage systems combined with the cookers
  • Analyzing the experimental data and writing research reports and papers

Tutoring

North West University
01.2016 - 01.2021
  • Responsible for compiling extra tutorial questions for students and assist them with assignments and explain lecture notes thoroughly
  • Responsible for assisting students with practicals and practical reports
  • Responsible for educating high school learners about the importance of studying physics.

Data Capture

Compensation fund
01.2015 - 12.2016
  • Assessing nature of the data and writing reports

Education

Ph.D. - Physics

North West University
Mahikeng, South Africa
04.2020 - 04.2023

Master of Science - Mathematical Science

University of Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa
01.2019 - 03.2020

Master of Science - Physics

North West University
Mahikeng, South Africa
01.2017 - 04.2018

Bachelor of Science Honours - Electronics

North West University
Mahikeng, South Africa
01.2016 - 04.2024

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science and Electronics

North West University
Mahikeng, South Africa
01.2010 - 04.2014

High School Diploma -

High School
Mahikeng, South Africa
01.2005 - 04.2009

Skills

Academic Writing

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Teaching Experiences

  • North West University, Faculty of Natural, Agriculture and Science, Mahikeng, Tutoring, 2016, 2021, Responsible for compiling extra tutorial questions for students and assist them with assignments and explain lecture notes thoroughly., Responsible for assisting students with practicals and practical reports., Responsible for educating high school learners about the importance of studying physics.
  • North West University, Faculty of Natural, Agriculture and Science, Phyiscs and Electronics, Mahikeng, Lecturing, 2020, 2022, Responsible for compile lecture notes, set assessments, exams and marking., Responsible conducting tutorials and practicals., Take part in the department's curriculum planning, design, and reviews., Responsible for carrying outreach programs to the community and institutions of learning.
  • North West University, Faculty of Engineering, SEECE, Potchefstroom, Lecturing, 2023, present, Responsible for compile lecture notes, set assessments, exams and marking., Responsible conducting tutorials and practicals., Take part in the department's curriculum planning, design, and reviews., Responsible for carrying outreach programs to the community and institutions of learning.

Interests And Skills

English, Setswana, Isizulu, Solar thermal energy systems, data science applications, programming, NWU GOOT(Grow Our Own Talent), NWU postgraduate, Service SETA

Publications

  • Thermal stratification performance of a packed bed latent heat storage system during charging, 3rd International Conference on Power and Renewable Energy, ICPRE 2018, Berlin, Germany, 09/21/18
  • Thermal performance comparison of three sensible heat thermal energy storage systems during charging cycles, Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments, 01/01/18
  • Energy and exergy performance of three sensible heat storage systems during charging, 6th International Renewable and Sustainable Energy Conference 2018, IRSEC 2018, Rabat, Morocco, 12/05/18
  • Performance comparison of a latent heat and combined thermal energy systems during charging, Renewable Energy and Power Engineering Conference 2018, REPE 2018, Toronto, Canada, 11/24/18
  • Experimental stratification analysis of three sensible heat storage systems during charging, Grand Renewable Energy Conference 2018, GRE2018, Yokohama, Japan, 06/17/18
  • Dynamic thermal performance of four encapsulated PCM spheres for domestic medium temperature applications, Energy Procedia 158, 01/01/19
  • Performance comparison of four spherically encapsulated phase change materials for medium temperature domestic applications, Journal of Energy Storage, 06/01/19
  • An investigation of the effect of super-cooling on the performance of erythritol as a phase change material, Domestic Use Energy Conference 2019, Wellington, South Africa, 05/25/19
  • Thermal performance analyses of two different configurations of combined pebble-pcm bed thermal energy storage systems, Domestic Use Energy Conference 2019, Wellington, South Africa, 05/25/19
  • Performance comparison of medium temperature domestic packed bed latent heat storage systems, Renewable Energy, 01/01/20
  • Performance comparison of two solar cooking storage pots combined with wonderbag slow cookers for off-sunshine cooking, Solar Energy, 09/15/20
  • A review of parabolic solar cookers with thermal energy storage, Heliyon, 10/01/21
  • An experimental study of a combined solar cooking and thermal energy storage system for domestic applications, South African Institution of Physics(SAIP), 01/01/21
  • A Thermal model of a solar cooker with thermal energy storage using computational fluid dynamics, ISES Conference Proceedings Database 2021, 01/01/21
  • Performance of two solar cooking storage pots using parabolic dish solar concentrators during solar and storage cooking periods with different heating loads, Results in Engineering, 01/01/22
  • Experimental Energetic and Exergetic Performance of a Combined Solar Cooking and Thermal Energy Storage System, Energies, 01/01/22
  • Charging Energetic and Exergetic Evaluation of A Combined Solar Cooking and Thermal Energy Storage System, 11th International Conference on Renewable Energy Research and Application (ICRERA) 2022, 09/18/22

References

  • Prof. Ashmore Mawire, Professor and Principal Researcher of Solar Energy Research Group, Department of Physics and Electronics, North-West University, +27 18 389 2127, ashmore.mawire@nwu.ac.za
  • Ms Tlotlo Lefenya, Laboratory Technician, North-West University, +27183892122, tlotlo.lefenya@nwu.ac.za
  • Prof. Kenneth Uren, Full- professor, Department of Electrical, electronic and computer engineering, North-West University, +27182991236, kenny.uren@nwu.ac.za

Timeline

Data Science intern

Standard Bank
02.2023 - 03.2023

Lecturing

North West University
01.2023 - Current

Ph.D. - Physics

North West University
04.2020 - 04.2023

Lecturer and Research Assistant

North-West University
01.2020 - 12.2022

Master of Science - Mathematical Science

University of Cape Town
01.2019 - 03.2020

Master of Science - Physics

North West University
01.2017 - 04.2018

Tutoring

North West University
01.2016 - 01.2021

Bachelor of Science Honours - Electronics

North West University
01.2016 - 04.2024

Data Capture

Compensation fund
01.2015 - 12.2016

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science and Electronics

North West University
01.2010 - 04.2014

High School Diploma -

High School
01.2005 - 04.2009
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