For the second year in a row, women have taken most of the top spots in the final-year civil engineering class at the University of Cape Town (UCT).

Dean of Engineering & the Built Environment Professor Alison Lewis said that although this is good news, the number of women in Engineering at UCT was still relatively low.

It was found that planet sustainability, climate change and making a difference in the community, locally and globally were most of the motivating factors for women to be attracted to Engineering.