School of Engineering (SEng.) Collections: Recent submissions
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Machine Learning-Based Power Output and Load Prediction for a Solar Photo-voltaic Mini-grid
(Makerere University, 2022-09)The power output of solar photovoltaic (PV) mini-grids is greatly affected by the dynamically changing weather conditions and load demand. This affects power production planning during the operation of these systems. In ... -
An IOT-based smart water meter and water quality monitoring system
(Makerere University, 2022-12-17)NWSC is the main Public Water Utility Company in Uganda serving over 15 million customers. From the services it provides, it receives a number of complaints that mainly fall under water quality and water consumption in ... -
Assessing the impact of unbalanced load on the technical losses in an lv distribution network
(Makerere University, 2022)Distribution network losses, specifically technical losses represent a substantial amount of energy and, consequently, a large cost that is often included in the tariffs structure. Unbalanced loading is one of the causes ... -
Design and simulation of a pneumatic paper cup making machine
(Makerere University, 2022-10-21)The project reported in this document, “Design and Simulation of a Pneumatic Paper cup making machine” focuses on the development of a machine and solution to the high costs encountered with the existant technology of ... -
Energy consumption prediction based on Facebook Prophet - Gated Recurrent Unit Method
(Makerere University, 2022)Electric energy consumption prediction is an essential and complex task in modern commercial medium industries. It plays a significant role in including the energy expenditure while drawing up the annual financial budget ... -
Energy consumption prediction based on FB prophet -GRU method
(Makerere University, 2022)In modern commercial medium industries, electric energy consumption prediction plays a significant role in including the energy expenditure in the process of making the annual financial budget of the company. In this ... -
Dam break Analysis to Determine the Outflow Hydrograph and Flood Inundation Impact of Isimba Dam, Kayunga District
(Makerere University, 2022-11)Dams are essential for water supply, hydropower generation, flood control, irrigation, recreation and navigation. There are several dams in Uganda for example, Bujagali dam, Owen falls dam, Isimba dam among others. The ... -
Smart GSM control for automatic gates and doors.
(Makerere University, 2022-02-11)The idea of controlling home access controls has been the desire of many Ugandan home Owners because they leave home for work early in the morning and do not return till late in the evening. Sometimes they even travel ... -
A Statistical Evaluation on the Quality of Construction Practice in Uganda
(Makerere University, 2022-11-18)This research investigated statistically the quality of construction practice in Uganda. The specific objectives were to: investigate the quality of concrete used specifically looking at the standard deviation in the ... -
Design of a low-cost portable soil testing and crop recommendation device
(Makerere University, 2023-01-03)Agriculture plays a predominant role in the economic growth and development of the country. The major and serious setback in crop productivity is that the farmers do not carry out soil testing and therefore do not choose ... -
A study on removal of natural organic matter from raw drinking water using activated carbon from maize cob
(Makerere University, 2022-10)The world is not running out of water. The real challenge is to provide enough clean water to a rapidly growing global population (Ashwani Kumar Singh, 2017). The use of chlorine as a disinfectant has made an immense ... -
Design and development of company vehicle management system
(2022-03-01)The project’s aim was to design and develop a fleet tracking and monitoring system to improve the level of supervision and management for the fleet. For reasons related to safety and company resource optimization, it was ... -
Machine Learning-Based Power Output and Load Prediction for a Solar Photo-voltaic Mini-grid
(Makerere University, 2022-09)The power output of solar photovoltaic (PV) mini-grids is greatly affected by the dynamically changing weather conditions and load demand. This affects power production planning during the operation of these systems. In ... -
Development of a low-cost positioning system using GNSS Signal processing and LPWAN nodes
(Makerere University, 2022-09-23)Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) has long been employed in positioning especially in outdoor environments with limited use in the indoor applications because GNSS signals are too weak to penetrate buildings and ... -
Design and construction of a hand held self-rechargeable leaf blower.
(Makerere University, 2022-10-17)Trees are one of the botanical perennial plants which when in an environment provide a beautiful. scenery, shed, oxygen, wind protection, manure from fallen leaves, food and many more. Due to this, having trees is one’s ... -
Design and fabrication of a Motorised eco-friendly road and floor dust cleaning machine.
(Makerere University, 2022-10-07)Cleaning of floors is the process of removing accumulated unwanted particles from a given surface or floor. The unwanted particles include dust brought about by moving air and /or speeding vehicles, ash particles flying ... -
Design and fabrication a manual roller bending machine
(2022-09)Mechanical Engineering without production and manufacturing is meaningless. Production and manufacturing process deals with conversion of raw materials inputs to finished products as per required dimension, specification ... -
Machine learning aided screening of lung diseases in CT images.
(Makerere University, 2023)Chest computed tomography (CT) scan image screening for lung diseases is a laborious and time-consuming technique that can only be handled by qualified radiologists. Due to a shortage of experienced radiologists in Uganda, ... -
The real time diagnostic system for vehicle wheels
(Makerere University, 2022-09-02)We have developed a Real time Car Wheel diagnostics system which accurately measures a car’s wheel alignment, temperature of tires and wheel balancing. This project aims at building a smart system that will monitor ... -
Detecting distributed denial of service attacks using Machine Learning
(Makerere University, 2023-01-13)Software-defined network (SDN) has become a revolutionary aspect in networks because it provides more control and network operation over a network infrastructure. The SDN controller is considered as the operating system ...