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MR. TEDDY MUHIA MUCAI

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LECTURER
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Job Category
Teaching
Phone Number
+254720402404
Division / Faculty
Faculty of Engineering and Technology
Directorate / Dept
DEPT. OF ELECTRICAL AND CONTROL ENG.
Address
P. O. BOX 536, 20115, Egerton University, Egerton, KENYA.
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

October 1986 to June 1993: Warsaw University of Technology - M Eng. in Control Engineering Specialization in Robot Control and Programming

October 1985 to June 1986: Lodz University, language School, Poland - Certificate in Polish Language

February 1983 to November 1984: Kenya Polytechnic - Kenya Advanced Certificate of Education

January 1979 to November 1982: Nairobi School - Kenya Certificate of Education

1971 to 1978: Lavington Primary School, Nairobi Kenya - Certificate of Primary Education.

FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION

 Control Systems

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

May 2004 to date: Electrical & Control Engineering Department, Egerton University, Kenya - Lecturer in Control Systems

June 2004-July 2004: Nairobi University, Kenya - Part-time Lecturer in Microprocessor Techniques and Interfacing

April 2000 to December 2001: ICS-UNIDO and APE (Applied Physics and Engineering) - Co - Research Fellow, Real-time Image processing.

October 1994 to June 1998: Mera-Pnefal S.A., Process Control Company, Instrumentation Division, Poland - Instrumentation Programmer

WORK EXPERIENCE

(a) Name of Company (Institution):

Egerton University, Department of Electrical & Control Engineering

Position Occupied:

Lecturer

Duration:

May 2004 – up to date

Duties and thematic areas

Teaching duties in subjects offered in the BSc. Instrumentation & Control degree course as per course allocation by chair of department. I have taught mostly courses in digital electronics (2nd & 3rd year), and control systems (4th & 5th year) as well as various others e.g. electronic devices (2nd year), Instrumentation & control (3rd year), Analog electronics (3rd year). In addition Measurements & Control, Computer Controlled Systems in MSc Engineering Systems & Management degree programme offered in the Industrial & Energy Engineering department. Currently teaching 2nd year students Principles of Automatic Control, 3rd year students Linear Systems & Control I, 4th years Linear Systems & Control II, 5th years Digital Control Systems, Multivariable Control Systems and Optimal Control Systems when the units are offered accordingly in the undergraduate degree program. I also undertake final year student project supervision amongst other duties as allocated by Head of Department.

 

(c) Name of Company (Institution):

INFM – Italian National Institute of the Physics of Matter.

Position Occupied:

Research Collaboration

Duration:

6 months – February 2002-September 2002

Duties involved:

The development of software in Visual Basic v.6.0 to monitor Field Emission Experiments. The integration of software into the LABVIEW (National Instruments) environment. GPIB instrument interface programming. Upgrading of software designed during research fellowship at the ICS-UNIDO dealing with Real-time Image Processing.

 

(d) Name of Institution

ICS-UNIDO - International Centre for Science and High Technology - United Nations Industrial Development Organization.

Position Occupied:

Research Fellow

Duration:

2 Years - 2000-2001

Duties and some topics involved:

Design of a Real-Time software application to control acquisition, processing and analysis of images in the field of optical microscopy.

Real-Time filtering of acquired images, measurement and counting of particles, production of images in four dimensions (xyz-time).

Real-Time processing: macro software performing live examination of dimensions and number of cells observed for studying the dynamics of the system evolution (growth in time response to chemical agents, etc.). Extraction of statistical parameters and morphological analysis.

Accomplishments:

  1. Identified, Designed and Implemented a cost-effective Real-Time Image Processing System (RTIPS) solution.
  2. Implementation based on Intel Image Processing Library and Open Computer Vision library with Real-Time features of: Image Filtering, Linear Transforms, Morphological Transformations, Sequential Image Processing, Contour Processing, Capture of AVI movie images etc.
  3. Participated in implementation of a software application developed in the field of Reflected High-Energy Electron Diffraction (RHEED). The Software was used in The Investigation of Growth Dynamics of thin films and Hetero-Structures of III-V Compounds by Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE). The implementation was done by ICS-UNIDO in collaboration with APE Research Co. at the Area Science Park, Trieste, Italy. The results are of importance in the design of high-speed semiconductor materials for use in the electronic industry.
  4. Designed of an "In-house" Object-Oriented Video Capture software tool to enable Real-Time image capture as a replacement to the use of a commercial software application. This allowed full software control over the image capture process.
  5. Co-authored in an abstract titled:"Time Resolved Morphological Analysis Applied To Albumin Permeability Study of Renal Structure" written in collaboration with "Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica e Neurologia, Universita' degli Studi di Trieste". This abstract was presented in the 5th Multinational Congress on Electron Microscopy held at the University Of Lecce, ITALY in September 20-25, 2001.

 

(d) Name of Company:

Mera-Pnefal S.A., Process Control Company, Instrumentation Division, Poland.

Position Occupied:

Computer Programmer

Duration:

4 Years - 1994-1998

Duties and some topics involved:

Embedded Controller software design, testing and implementation. Auto-tuning, Fuzzy Logic and Predictive Control in Industrial Controllers. Control loop tuning and in part commissioning. Documentation/Manuals translation. Presentation of seminars/exhibitions. Simulation of Control Systems.

Accomplishments:

Co-designed various company micro-controller software. Namely:-

  • EFTRONIK XS - PID controller with auto-tuning feature
  • EFTRONIK XF - "Quasi-Fuzzy-Logic" PID Controller, (Awarded Gold medal in the International Automation exhibition 1997).
  • EFTRONIK SRS - Auto-tuning and Predictive PID controller.

Co-authored two (2) publications dealing with the above products in a Polish "Measurements, Automation & Control" periodical (Pomiary, Automatyka, Kontrola - PAK).

KEY PROJECTS

MULTIVARIABLE PROCESS CONTROL TRAINING KIT

A Quadruple Tank Process Control Experiment

 

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS
  1. Multivariable Process Control.
  2. Embedded Controller software design, testing and implementation.
  3. Auto-tuning, Fuzzy Logic and Predictive Control in Industrial Controllers. Control loop tuning and in part commissioning.
  4. Control Systems Algorithms and their implementation in HIL (Hardware in the Loop).
  5. Optimal Control Algorithms - Transcription Methods.
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
  1. Co-authored in an abstract titled:"Time Resolved Morphological Analysis Applied To Albumin Permeability Study of Renal Structure" written in collaboration with "Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica e Neurologia, Universita' degli Studi di Trieste". This abstract was presented in the 5th Multinational Congress on Electron Microscopy held at the University Of Lecce, ITALY in September 20-25, 2001.
HONORS, PRIZE AND AWARDS
  1. EFTRONIK XF - "Quasi-Fuzzy-Logic" PID Controller, (Awarded Gold medal in the International Automation exhibition 1997).
  2. Co-designed various company micro-controller software. Namely:-
    • EFTRONIK XS - PID controller with auto-tuning feature
    • EFTRONIK SRS - Auto-tuning and Predictive PID controller.
TEACHING AREAS
  • ECEN 252 - Principles of Automatic Control
  • ECEN 352 - Linear Sytems & Control I
  • ECEN 453 - Linear Systems & Control II
  • ECEN 555 - Digital Control Systems
  • ECEN 557 - Multivariable Control Systems
  • ECEN 558 - Optimal Control Systems
REFEREES

Dr. F. M. Manene

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Chairman of Department, Electrical & Control Engineering Department, Egerton University, Kenya

Egerton University, P. O. Box 536, ECEN Dept., Egerton, Kenya.

 

Dr. Stefano Prato,

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Head of Research & Development

Applied Physics and Engineering Research Co. (APE), Area Science Park, Bassovizza ss14 km 163, 5, 34012, Trieste, Italy.

 

Piotr Tatjewski, Prof. PhD, D.Sc.,

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Head of Institute of Automatic Control and Computational Engineering

Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology, Institute of Automatic Control and Computational Engineering, 15/19 Nowowiejska Street, 00-665, Warsaw, Poland. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

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