In a highly contested university student election, two teams have been cleared to run for elections - Team Magic and Team Munyao. Both teams have been allowed to compete in the election, and the race is expected to be a tight one. Both teams, Team Magic and Team Munyao, have representatives from the Department of Civil & Construction Engineering.
Second-year students taking Bachelor of Science in Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering have started their second semester labs in fluid mechanics at the Department of Civil & Construction Engineering. The students will be doing experiments on:
The Department of Civil & Construction Engineering observed the World Engineering Day 2023. The event was held at the Manu Chandaria Centre for Performing Arts at the University of Nairobi Tower on 4th March.
The event was quite successful. In the previous year, Eng. Muthomi Munyua was a panelist at the event. https://youtu.be/PGe6_DQ2jb0
A tour was organised by the University of Nairobi for staff from the Department of Civil & Construction Engineering to visit Zenith Steel Fabricators at their factory in Isinya, Kajiado County. Members who attended were Eng. Maimba, Eng. Matheri, Eng. Mburu, Eng. Nancy and Eng. Muthomi. The tour was led by Mohid Moez, an alumni of the Department. Zenith Steel is eager to take up students for their fourth-year attachments and internships. Zenith Steel handles about 40 000 metric tonnes of steel annually.
Phelix Odero, a fourth-year student from the Department of Civil & Construction Engineering, makes a presentation on timber design on a webinar organised by the Architectural Association of Kenya - Engineer's Chapter. Phelix Odero works part-time as a Technical Sales Representative (East Africa Region) at Rothoblaas Company. Other speakers in the webinar are: Andrew Lawrence who is a Director and a Fellow at Arup and the UK representative on the European Timber Design Code Committee; Arch. George Wekesa, who is the Timber Lead at Build X. Arch.
The department has launched a thesis template for Postgraduate students. The template aims to improve the standardisation of the theses submitted to the University of Nairobi. The template is available from the webpage on the Department's website dedicated for postgraduate students research process. The link to download is https://app.box.com/s/pueg3bi14zicred6jqohdtu7zu9w8zf2.
The photograph above shows a fifth year student together with Kabete technical student on attachment performing Compaction experiment at the Highway laboratory. Fifth year students are continuing with their final year projects after the First Semester exams with an aim of completing those projects before the second semester ends.
Exams in Civil and Construction Engineering gets to week two after a smooth run of the first week. We continue wishing the students well in their exams and encourage them to continue following exams rules and regulations.
Exams for the Academic year 2022-2023 semester one have started today Monday morning 23rd January ,2023 and they are expected to end on Friday 3rd February 2023. The exams started very well as planned and our expectations is that they will run as programmed. We continue wishing the students well as the proceed with their examinations
Concrete mixer at the concrete lab is being repaired by members of staff from the Department of Mechanical Engineering with an aim of helping students to continue with their research and also consultancy services. The exercise is being supervised by the Chief Technologist Mr. Kenneth Kaunda
