Prof Washington Yotto Ochieng, a Kenyan based in the UK has been appointed the new Head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Imperial College.
Kenya’s High Commissioner to the UK Manoah Esipisu announced over the weekend.
He congratulated the Kenyan scholar for the major milestone in his engineering career.
“A very warm congratulations to Kenyan Prof Washington Yotto Ochieng, Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, on being appointed Head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the famous Imperial College,” Esipisu noted.
Prof Ochieng has been working at the prestigious Imperial College for years now, previously as the departmental head for Transport.
In his tenure as an engineering scholar at Imperial College, he is credited for creating transport models which solved the commuting crisis that had bedevilled London.
At the time, he was the Head of the Centre for Transport Studies.
He developed the Air Traffic Management (ATM) and Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) through positing and navigation on land, sea and air through applications that enhanced these systems.
“Professor Ochieng’s research interests are in the design of positioning and navigation systems for land, sea and air applications; Air Traffic Management (ATM) and Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS).
“He has made significant contributions to major international projects including the design of the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS) and GALILEO, GNSS measurement error modelling, specification of aircraft trajectory management tools for the Single European Sky’s ATM Research (SESAR) programme, and integrated positioning and navigation systems for many applications including ITS,” Imperial College describes him.
He moved to London’s Imperial College in 1997. He is a PhD holder in Space Geodesy from the University of Nottingham.
