Team Leader

James Mutua

Dr. James Mutua.

Career Overview

Dr. James Mutua is an early career researcher who is currently actively involved in numerous researches.
He is a specialist in Materials Engineering, Additive manufacturing, Design &Production, Recycling, and Lightweight materials.
Current research includes:
Composite material development, High performance materials engineering, Computational Materials Modelling, Recycling of waste plastics, and additive manufacture of metal materials and biomedical materials for Medicare.
He serves as the Chief Investigator who sphere heads the section in new material development, recycling of plastics and additive manufacturing of bio based energy devices.
He also serve as the key supervisor and mentor to all the postgraduate students and Junior staff involved in the research.
In addition, he is responsible for continuous monitoring and progress presentation to the Africa-ai-Japan Project Phase 2 research and innovation grants office.

Concurrently serves as:

Lecturer Department of Mechanical Engineering, SOMMME, COETEC
Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT).

Activities and Responsibilities

  1. Thematic leader of Team 1 who oversees Materials redesign, recycling, and additive manufacture of energy related devices.
  2. Lead and coordinate all the scientific and financial reporting for all nano bio based waste plastic material development and Additive manufacturing issues.>
  3. Plays advisory role in Additive manufacturing to the rest of the Research teams.
  4. Supervises postgraduate students in thematic area.
  5. Consistently prepare and update project plan according to objectives.
  6. Obtain, distribute and manage all project funding for the various thematic areas as per budget.
  7. Co-ordinate regular meetings, assess and report progress
  8. Link the team with industry team and other stakeholders for realistic project outcomes
  9. Mediate and resolve any conflicts within the project.

Achievements

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Co Leader

Prof Home

Prof. Patrick G. Home

Specialization:

  1. Application of Remote Sensing and Geospatial Information Systems in detecting and mapping land use changes and land use planning.
  2. Irrigation and Drainage.
  3. Waste Water Engineering and pollution control.
  4. Rainwater Harvesting.
  5. Aquaculture Engineering.

Concurrently serves as:

Lecturer Department of Soil, Water and Environmental Engineering, SOBEE, COETEC
Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT).

Achievements

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Team Member

Dr Mariam Ali Kassim

Dr Mariam Ali Kassim.

Career Overview

Dr. Mariam Ali (an expert in Thermo-electric/energy materials)
PhD. Materials Science and Engineering, Egypt-Japan University for Science and Technology (E-JUST)
M.Sc. Materials Science and Engineering, Sabanci University, Turkey
B.Sc. Major in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Turkey

Research Interests

  1. Energy Conversion and Generation Materials - Fuel Cell, Thermoelectric, Supercapacitors
  2. Flexible Electronic Materials and Devices
  3. Nanocomposite Materials for Advanced Applications - Polymeric And Carbon-Based
  4. Computational and Theoretical Studies
  5. Metallurgy and Mineral Processing

Concurrently serves as:

Lecturer in the Department of Mining, Materials and Petroleum Engineering ,SOMMME, COETEC
Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT).

Achievements

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Team Member

Dr. Gerald Odhiambo

Dr. Gerald Odhiambo

Career Overview

Dr. Gerald Odhiambo (Composite materials and Surface Engineering Expert)

Specialization

New Ship Materials
Surface coating and Engineering
Materials engineering
Marine Structures design
corrosion and Electrochemistry
Material development

Research Interest:

Materials characterization, new material design, ship material refurbishment and design, Additive manufacture of High-Performance materials & characterization, Microstructural Engineering, corrosion and mitigation

Concurrently serves as:

Lecturer in the Department of Marine Engineering ,SOMMME, COETEC
Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT).

Achievements

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Dr. John Odhiambo

Dr. John Odhiambo

Career Overview

Dr. John Odhiambo (Composite materials and In-situ material Engineering expert),

Specialization

Composite Materials (AMCs)
Material Processing Characterization
Polymer Recycling
Fuel Oil Stability

Concurrently serves as:

Lecturer in the Department of Marine Engineering ,SOMMME, COETEC
Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT).

Achievements

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Team Member

Dr. Japheth Obiko

Dr. Japheth Obiko

Career Overview

Dr. Japheth Obiko (an expert in Metal Additive Manufacturing and Material Forming processes),
Dr Obiko has a PhD from the School of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering, University of the Witwatersrand-Johannesburg, South Africa obtained in 2021.
He received an MSc in Mechanical Engineering from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology in 2015 and BSc (Mechanical Engineering) from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Kenya in 2012.
He is a registered graduate engineer with the Engineers Board of Kenya.
He is currently involved in different research topics focusing in areas of metal forming processes, welding metallurgy, material characterisation and alloy design and thermodynamic analysis.
He is also interested in both advanced and conventional machining processes of novel materials.
He is also interested in the application of Industry 4.0 technologies on welding and metal forming processes.
He has published several peer-reviewed articles in journals, book chapters and conferences.
He guides and mentors several undergraduate and postgraduate students in their research projects.
Dr Obiko is passionate about the adoption of Industry 4.0 in African manufacturing systems and as such, he is working towards expanding his research networks and experience in this topic.
He hopes to achieve this by working with various research groups around Africa/the world and fostering academia-industry relationships.

Concurrently serves as:

Lecturer in the Department of Mining, Materials and Petroleum Engineering ,SOMMME, COETEC
Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT).

Achievements

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Team Member

Ms Christabel Ngetich

Ms Christabel Ngetich

Career Overview

Christabel Chepngeno Ngetich, Department of Mechanical Engineering, SOMMME, COETEC-JKUAT. 2020. She is a PhD student in the department of Mechanical Engineering who will carry out additive manufacturing and testing of a property-function optimized material for energy conversion and storage.

Specialization

Additive Manufacturing
Advanced Materials
Energy
Artificial Intelligence

Achievements

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