College of Science and Technology: Recent submissions

  • Electricity access and Rural household productivity: Evidence from Tanzania 
    DATA, Anthony Lagu (University of Rwanda (College of science and Technology), 2021-11-01)
    Access to electricity is essential for soci-economic change or transformation of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) economies and plays crucial role in enhancing the economic capacities of communities to achieve faster and more ...
  • Off-Grid energy use and household welfare in Rwanda 
    MUKAYIRANGA, Laurence (University of Rwanda (College of science and Technology), 2021-11-05)
    One of the biggest issues to rural growth of the economy in developing countries is insufficiency entrance to renewable energy. Energy access can improve educational and health outcomes, labor productivity, job creation, ...
  • Electricity cost and firms productivity: Evidence from manufacturing firms in Africa 
    CHEBII, Jerotich Anita (University of Rwanda (College of science and Technology), 2021-11-05)
    Electricity is an important component for any process of industrialization. This is because no industry, whether manufacturing or service, can growwithoutreliableelectricitysupply.Electricity deficit has a huge implication ...
  • Determinants of carbon dioxide emission in Rwanda: Evidence from renewable and non-renewable energy 
    KAYANDA, Jean Claude (University of Rwanda (College of science and Technology), 2021-11-05)
    Environmental deterioration is a challenge in developing countries. Any use of nonrenewable energy demand for economics progress cause the environment damage, however the consequences of environmental degradation cannot ...
  • Electrification and women empowerment in Malawi 
    NYIRAHIRWA, Sylvie (University of Rwanda (College of science and Technology), 2021-11-18)
    Access to electricity has been revealed to fast-track opportunities for women by moving them into more profitable activities., However whether development through financial empowerment change the norms from the common ...
  • Analysis of structural performance of rigid pavement concrete reinforced with recycled tyre steel fibres and blast furnace slags as aggregates 
    HABIMANA, Japhet Kadafi (University of Rwanda (College of science and Technology), 2020-08)
    Dumping of waste tyres on land represents a global major environmental problem. Their disposal concern is increasingly raising mostly in urban areas of Rwanda and other urbanized areas of African countries. These worn tyres ...
  • Use of blockchain in the management of land registration system 
    NTWALI, Yassin Ndaye Chikwanine (University of Rwanda (College of science and Technology), 2022-11-03)
    This project proposes the feasibility of a blockchain-based registration and control management system within the cadastral service in the province of North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Given that blockchain ...
  • Energy consumption and economic growth in Rwanda 
    UWIZEYE, Naome (University of Rwanda (College of science and Technology), 2021-11-15)
    Energy is a critical ressource for the economy.Energy resources are the most important sources of production that can help to grow the economy, particularly in high-energy-intensive countries. The importance of energy is ...
  • Rural electrification and employment in Rwanda 
    UMUGWANEZA, Angelique (University of Rwanda (College of science and Technology), 2021-11-16)
    The data from 2003 to 2020 were used in the study, and the autoregressive distributed lags with error correction term were used as the analysis method. The findings revealed that rural electrification access has a significant ...
  • LTE-in unlicensed band: Medium access and performance evaluation 
    KANYESHULI, Alexandre (University of Agder, 2015-05-26)
    Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology is challenged by high data rate demanding services and increasing number of mobile phones which are equipped with Wi-Fi access capability. To respond to this challenge, 3rd Generation ...
  • “Design middleware architecture for mobile discovery of passive tags” 
    MUGISHA, George (University of Rwanda (College of science and Technology), 2016-06)
    Rwanda is among the developing countries in Africa facing the challenges of not having the enough resources of technology leading to met some difficulties in their service delivery for instance Rwanda revenue authority ...
  • Financial feasibility analysis of Grid connected photovoltaic projects in Rwanda. Case study: Gigawatt global Rwanda 
    NDIZEYE, Eustache (University of Rwanda (College of science and Technology), 2021-11-15)
    Developing states are shifting from reliance on hydro-carbon based energy output generation which is intensive polluting energy sources into more diversified and environmentally friendly energy source with special interest ...
  • Exploring implication of renewable energy transition on the cost of electricity and green house gases emisssion in East African coutries 
    NGETICH, Emmanuel Kiprotich (University of Rwanda (College of science and Technology), 2021-10)
    The increasing demand of energy coupled with continuous reliance on non-renewable energy resources as least-cost power generation option contributes highly on climate change. The decision making to having access to a ...
  • Feasibility study of production of Bio methane from biodegradable waste in Rwanda. Case study: NDUBA Landfill site 
    NIYOMUFASHA, Ghadi (University of Rwanda (College of science and Technology), 2021-11-11)
    Wastes (Biodegradable and Non- Biodegradable) generation is increasing rapidly in these days as result of expansion of economic activities and rapid growth of population in Rwanda, particularly in city areas. The wastes ...
  • Improvement of cobblestone road conditions versus riding quality in the City of Kigali 
    NYANDWI, Emmanuel (University of Rwanda (College of science and Technology), 2014-07)
    The use of stones for paving roads is not new idea; it is dating from ancient times when people used horses as a mean of transport. When vehicles started to replace horses as a mean of transport, cobblestone roads started ...
  • Determinant of energy consumption in Rwanda 
    MINANI, Leon Moise (University of Rwanda (College of science and Technology), 2021-11-11)
    Energy has been criticized as the world`s challenge in the next century and Energy consumption increasing rapidly according to the rapid technological growth. However, there is a huge empirical claiming the determinants ...
  • Technical feasibility study of on-Grid PV system of prosumers in Rwanda. Case study: AYABARAYA Modern Village 
    NIYONSABA, Jean d'Amour (University of Rwanda (College of science and Technology), 2021-10-25)
    The on-grid PV system prosumer generates and consumes the electricity either from the selfgenerated electricity or from the utility grid. This research studied and analyzed the feasibility of grid connected PV system ...
  • Challenges of mobile health implementation in Rwanda : Technical perspectives 
    SEZIKEYE, Jean Paul (University of Rwanda (College of science and Technology), 2022-02-08)
    Background: In Rwanda and all around the globe mobile technology has become the most successful and certainly the speediest adopted modern technology to enhance healthcare service delivery. It can be argued that setting ...
  • Effects of energy consumption on carbon emisssions in Rwanda 
    UWIMANIHAYE, Pierre Céléstin (University of Rwanda (College of science and Technology), 2021-11-08)
    The relationship between the use of energy, GDP and CO2 emissions in Rwanda within side the duration of 1990-2019 were analyzed by the use of VECM. Primarily, the main problem leading to performing this study was to discover ...
  • Combustion and emission characteristics of Rwandan Peat 
    UWIMANA, Marie Louise (University of Rwanda (College of science and Technology), 2021-11-05)
    Peat is being used for power generating more and more over the world, including Rwanda. The Rwandan government is now intending to increase peat generation in the energy sector strategic plan in order to meet the goal of ...

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