Browsing Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment & Design (FEng / FBD) by Issue Date
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Globalization and the Urban Studio: Evaluating an Inter-University Studio Collaboration in Nairobi
(05-08-13)Globalization is increasingly shaping the practice and pedagogy of urban planning. In this paper we first explore some of the implications of globalization for planning education. We then describe an experiment in international ... -
Impacts of Roadway Emissions on Urban Fine Particle Exposures: the Nairobi Area Traffic Contribution to Air Pollution (NATCAP) Study
(University of Nairobi, 07-05-10)Air quality is a serious and worsening problem in the rapidly growing cities of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), due to rapid urbanization, growing vehicle fleets, changing life styles, limited road infrastructure and land use ... -
Residents' Participation in Neighbourhood Management and Maintenance-Experiences and Lessons from Nairobi, Kenya
(07-08-13)Kenya has been faced with challenges of planning, development and management of its urban residential neighbourhoods. Any residential neighbourhood should have a well-defined spatial and social entity so as to give meaning ... -
Design of Stone Crusher
(University of Nairobi, 08-05-13)The School of Engineering is to presenta paper on Design of Stone Crasher during the Institute of Engineers of Kenya (IEK) conference to be held at the Tom Mboya Labour College from 8th to 10th of May. -
The Challenges of Rural Electrification in Sub-Saharan Africa
(University of Nairobi, 09-06-05)This paper presents challenges of rural electrification. The main technical challenge of rural electrification programme to the power engineer is therefore the designing of an electrical distribution system for a dispersed ... -
Using Developable Land Units as an Indicator of Rate of Growth of an Urban Area
(13-08-13)Developable Land Units (DLU) have been used in combination with remotely sensed data as an indicator for tracking the rate of urban growth. The variables used to model this indicator(DLU) are namely available vacant land, ... -
A Wavelet Based Image Watermarking Scheme With A CDMA/Hadamard Embedding Technique
(University of Nairobi, 15-02-07)A new blind digital image watermarking scheme that employs a Hadamard matrix to spread the CDMA watermark in selected DWT coefficients in a gray-level cover image is proposed. The coefficients are obtained from the 1- level ... -
Rainwater Harvesting And Management For Improving Agricultural Productivity In Arid And Semi-arid Areas Of Kenya
(22-06-13)Kenya Rainwater Association (KRA) has been working to implement rainwater harvesting and management systems (RHM) and complementary technologies across Kenya since 1994. A founder member of the Greater Horn of Africa ... -
Short Term Load Forecasting Using Artificial Neural Networks
(University of Nairobi, 24-04-13)Load forecasting refers to the prediction of future load conditions based on present or historical data. This is important especially for transmission planning and economic dispatch. In this paper, an Artificial Neural ... -
A Digital Image Watermarking Scheme Based On Localised Wavelet Coefficients' Dependency
(University of Nairobi, 25-09-09)A wavelet based robust image watermarking scheme in which a binary image is embedded in the horizontal and vertical quadrants of a wavelet transformed image is proposed. The algorithm exploits the inter-coefficients ... -
Nairobi International Design Conference
(University of Nairobi, 26-05-11)The main event of Nairobi International Design Conference (NIDEC) was held at the National Museum of Kenya on Wednesday 25th and Thursday 26th of May. The conference theme was ‘Desig n in Industrial Transformation.’ NIDEC’s ... -
A spectral Subtraction Method for Noise reduction in Speech Signals
(University of Nairobi, 27-09-96)A noise suppression algorithm for enhancing speech signals corrupted by additive white Gaussian noise is presented in this paper. The algorithm is based on the subtraction of estimated noise spectrum from the noisy speech ... -
An Image Watermarking Method Based On The Singular Value Decomposition And The Wavelet Transform
(University of Nairobi, 28-09-07)A robust image watermarking scheme in which a binary image is embedded in the singular values of selected DWT blocks in the horizontal and vertical sub-bands of a 1-level decomposition of a gray-scale image is proposed. ... -
Teacher education and development in Africa: the need for access, equity, sustainability, quality and relevance within the context of globalization
(University of NairobiCollege Of Education And External Studies, 30-07-13)Expanding education and improving its quality is central to the development of Africa. If we want to realize the goal of quality education for all, faculties of education in Africa need to take the lead in finding African ... -
Some notes on the production and design of timber housing for medium to large scale projects in Kenya.
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Principles And Theory Of Planning: A Course Manual For The Degree Of Master Of Physical Planning, Makerere University, Uganda. In Collaboration With GTZ Urban Planning Assistance Project In The Ministry Of Lands Housing And Urban Development, Uganda, Octo
(Urban and regional planning, University of Nairobi, 1970)
