Academic Staff

MUNYAZIKWIYE BERNARD, Senior Lecturer, Head of Department, b.munyazikwiye@ur.ac.rw
munybernard@gmail.com
+250788842534

Dr. Bernard is the head of the Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering in the school of Engineering , UR-College of Science and Technology. Dr. Bernard is also a Senior Lecturer of Control Systems Engineering and dynamics of Machines. He holds a BSc. degree in Electromechanical Engineering from the Kigali Institute of Science and Technology, Rwanda, in 2004, an MSc. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Kenya, in 2010, a Ph.D. degree in Mechatronics from the University of Agder, Grimstad, Norway. His main research interests include modeling and simulation of dynamic systems, different models simulations (with a mathematical modeling approach), and control of electromechanical systems. Dr. Bernard is a reviewer of different MDPI journals and a member of IEEE. Dr. Bernard has published 8 conference papers and 7 peer reviewed journal papers. Currently Dr. Bernard is a Principal Investigator of Two Research projects ( E-Tractor Research and Development, Design and Manufacturing of a Smart COVID-19 Tracking System). Dr. Bernard has supervised 16 Final year undergraduate projects , 2 Master projects ( one completed and one ongoing) and 1 PhD project, still ongoing.