School of Engineering (SEng.)
Recent Submissions
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Design and construction of a manual seed planter.
(2019-05-31)Agriculture is the back bone of Uganda since it is a source of livelihood for over ¾ of the country’s population with over 3.95million agriculture households, about 27% contribution to the Gross Domestic Product, and 85% ... -
Design and Construction of a Low-Power Audio Transmitter and Receiver Unit.
(2019-12-06)This report is hereby presented as an account of the final year project. It serves as a partial fulfilment of the requirement for the award of a Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering. It is a compulsory requirement ... -
Designing a power saving mode system to monitor and control the power consumption of households for Kanyegaramire Solar Mini-Grid
(2019-06-12)This project presents a new strategy for controlling loads in a mini-grid with the aim of providing the consumers with the benefit of using high priority loads of their choice, even when energy from the battery bank is ... -
Estimating the Effect of Land Use Change on the Rate of Sedimentation in Awoja Catchment.
(2019-05-30)Very many lakes and rivers are faced with a problem of sediment delivery which results into reduction of the water quality and quantity, reducing the availability of water needed for various purposes and also increasing ... -
Evaluating the effects of activating agents on the performance of geopolymer cements.
(2019-07-03)Geopolymers are mineral polymers of inorganic polymer glasses with structure resembling natural zeolitic materials. Geopolymer formation uses source materials such as clay (e.g. kaolin and calcined kaolin) or industrial ... -
Investigation of the tensile and compressive strength of Ugandan borassus Aethiopum (African fan palm).
(2018)Uganda has over forty-five (45) timber species on market. The most common timber species include eucalyptus, mvule and mahogany that are used in making furniture and for construction works among other uses. There is ... -
Investigating Groundwater Variations Using Water Table Fluctuation Method: Case Study of Kawempe Division Kampala Uganda.
(2019-06-10)Evaluating groundwater levels is part of sustainably managing the water supply and predicting the possibility of water shortages. Unreliable groundwater supply has far reaching consequences on the economy and the social ... -
Comparison of confined masonry buildings and reinforced concrete frames with infills under seismic loading.
(2019-05-24)The main advantage of masonry buildings is their high compressive strength. They are heat and fire resistant and will last for over 100 years. Masonry interacts with the frame to improve the lateral load carrying capacity ... -
Design of a Neilsen Lohse footbridge along Bombo Road at YMCA
(2019-05)Along Bombo road at YMCA, there are high volumes of vehicular and pedestrian traffic which jeopardizes pedestrian safety and increases travel times for the drivers. Also, there is a substandard pedestrian refuge which does ... -
Investigating Groundwater Variations Using Water Table Fluctuation Method: Case Study of Kawempe Division Kampala Uganda.
(2019-06-10)Evaluating groundwater levels is part of sustainably managing the water supply and predicting the possibility of water shortages. Unreliable groundwater supply has far reaching consequences on the economy and the social ... -
Investigation of rutting potential and moisture susceptability of open graded friction courses.
(2019-11-26)Open-graded asphalt friction course (OGFC) is an open-graded Hot Mix Asphalt (HMA) mixture with interconnecting voids that provides improved surface drainage during rainfall. The rainwater drains vertically through the ... -
Design and construction of a Solar Powered Fruit Dehydrator.
(2019-11-25)Traditionally farmers have been employing the conventional open sky sun drying a free energy resource but has not been satisfactory as it is associated with several limitations most especially on a large scale if it is ... -
Design and implimentation of a Pre-Eclampsia detection system using image processing.
(2019-06)Preeclampsia (toxaemia) is a complex disease of pregnancy with sometimes serious effects on maternal and infant morbidity and mortality. It is defined by hypertension after 20 weeks’ gestation and proteinuria. Preeclampsia ... -
Design and Implementation of a Luganda Text Normalization Module for a Speech Synthesis Software Program.
(2019-06-25)Text normalization is the process of converting non-standard words such as numbers, dates, time, measurements, currencies and abbreviations into standard words so that their pronunciations can be derived by a typical means. ... -
Evaluation of the performance of the existing treatment plant at Uganda Industrial Research Institute (UIRI)
(2019-10-29)The main contributors to the surface and ground water pollution are the by - products of various industries such as textile, metal, dying chemicals, fertilizers, pesticides, cement, petrochemical, energy and power, leather, ... -
Public perception towards public bus services in Kampala Uganda.
(2018-11-19)This study was carried out in Kampala, Uganda’s national and commercial capital bordering Lake Victoria. She is the capital and largest city of Uganda. She is divided into Kampala central division, Kawempe division, Makindye ... -
Capacity Improvement of Kampala Road between Watoto Church and Mapeera House.
(2019-05)Capacity of a junction directly affects the capacity of the preceding corridors upstream and downstream. This report aims at expounding on the relevance of this project and its effect on the capacities of the Watoto and ... -
Modelling Uganda's total primary energy supply to the end user by 2040.
(2019-06-27)This study sought to model Uganda’s primary energy supply to end-user leading to 2040. As much as Uganda is endowed with a number of natural resources such as lakes, rivers, wind, sun, geothermal, its primary energy supply ... -
Developing a model for estimating global in-plane solar irradiance for Uganda.
(2019-07)The project was focused on evaluation of the accuracy of combination of models that estimate plane-of-array (POA) irradiance from measured global horizontal irradiance (GHI), developing a decomposition model to estimate ... -
Comparative analysis of solar energy efficiency of solar water pumping and other sources in Uganda.
(2019-06)This report deals with the analysis ofsolar water pumping in comparison to other energies used for water pumping. The availability of different energies in Uganda allows water pumping in different areas accordingly ...