Profile - ENG. VINCENT ONYANGO ODHIAMBO

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Designation: 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

Registered Professional Engineer With Engineers Board of Kenya EBK. No: A1776
Member of Institution of Engineers of Kenya, (M.I.E.K)

WORK EXPERIENCE

Chair of Department - Industrial and Energy Engineering, Egerton University - From Jan 2022 - To date

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

Lecturer - Egerton University June 2005 - to date

Taught and Examined Undergraduate and Post-Graduate students in 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.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

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