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ENG. VINCENT ONYANGO ODHIAMBO

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LECTURER
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Job Category
Teaching
Phone Number
+254721779308
Division / Faculty
Faculty of Engineering and Technology
Directorate / Dept
DEPT. OF INDUSTRIAL AND ENERGY ENG
Section
Lecturer
SUMMARY

I am a professional mechanical engineer working as a lecturer in the faculty of engineering and technology at Egerton University. I have over twenty years of teaching and research experience in the following course unit; Mechanics of machines, Solid and structural mechanics, Engineering drawing and design, Machine design.

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
  • MSc (Mechanical Engineering) University of Nairobi, 1996 Thesis Topic—" Dynamics of Contact Surfaces Under Pure Rolling and Rolling WithTraction "
  • B. Tech. (Production Engineering) Moi University, 1989.
PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
  1. Registered Professional Engineer With Engineers Board of Kenya EBK. No:   A1776
  2. Member of Institution of Engineers of Kenya, (M.I.E.K)
WORK EXPERIENCE

Chair of Department -  Industrial and Energy Engineering, º£½ÇÆƽâ°æ-  From Jan 2022 - To date

Allocating duties to staff members and coordinating roles within the department. 

Lecturer - º£½ÇÆƽâ°æJune 2005 - to date

Taught and Examined Undergraduate and Post-Graduate students in the following course units

  1. Industrial Robotics
  2. Stress Analysis
  3. Metrology
  4. Mechanics of Machines
  5. Engineering Design
  6. Engineering Drawing
  • Asst Lecturer -JKUAT - 2003-2005 Taught the following course units

 Machine Vibration, Machine Tools Design, Spatial Mechanisms

Planar Mechanisms Jig and Fixture Design, Solid and Structural

Mechanics

Kenya Railways 

Responsible for preparation of Technical Specifications for Locomotives and other Railroad Vehicles for Kenya Railways Corporation.

  • Technical Services Engineer (2001 - 2003)
  • Asst. Workshops (K.R.C.) Manager - (1998 - 2001)
  • Senior Production Engineer, Central Workshops, (1996-1998)
  • Asst. Engineer (Carriage and Wagons - (1990 -1996)
RESEARCH INTERESTS

Manufacturing Automation, Robotics, and Dynamics of Multi-Body Systems

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

1. Odhiambo V, Misoi G. K. and Mutuli S.M. "Dynamics of Contact Rolling Surfaces with

and without Traction - Part 1 - The Mechanics of an Elastic Contact. 1997 - Sustainable

Research and Innovation Conference, JKUAT, Kenya.

2. Odhiambo V., Misoi, G.K. "Dynamics of Contact Rolling surface with and without

Traction " - Part 2 - Dynamics Characteristics of Corrugation, 1997 - Sustainable

Research and Innovation Conference, JKUAT, Kenya

3. Odhiambo V. - "Rehabilitation of Jolt - Squeeze Sand Molding Machines " 1997

Engineering Registration Board, Kenya.

TEACHING AREAS
  1. Industrial Robotics
  2. Stress Analysis
  3. Metrology
  4. Mechanics of Machines
  5. Engineering Design
  6. Jig and Fixture Design
  7. Machine Tools Design
  8.  Machine Vibration
  9. Planar Mechanisms
  10. Spatial Mechanisms
  11. Solid and Structural Mechanics
  12. Engineering Drawing
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