POSTGRADUATE UNIT STAFF PROFILE

PORTIA MUPFUMIRA (MZweIE)

A/Postgraduate Coordinator

PORTIA MUPFUMIRA (MZweIE)

Ph.D. in Engineering Research Scholar, M.Eng in Industrial Systems Optimisation, B.Tech in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Certificate in Machineshop Engineering. A member of the Zimbabwe Institution of Engineers (ZIE), Engineering Council of Zimbabwe     (ECZ), ZIEWIE and System Dynamics Society.

TAUGHT COURSES

Undergraduate:  

  •  Operations Research
  • Operations Management
  • Engineering Modelling and Simulation

Postgraduate:                       

  • Advanced Optimisation Techniques
  • Operations Research Techniques
  • Operations Management
  •  System Dynamics Modelling

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Transportation, Smart Cities, Modelling and Simulation for development of decision support systems using System Dynamics and ARENA, Systems Analysis and Optimisation using MATLAB. Expertise in Operations Research, Operations Management and Modelling and Simulation.

PUBLICATIONS

  1. P. Mupfumira, M. Mutingi, M. Chirasha, M. Hudube, T Dzapasi, (2023) A SWOT Analysis of Smart Cities Frameworks, Proceedings of the 5th African International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, Lusaka, Zambia, April 4-6
  2. P. Mupfumira, D.A.K Mangunda, M.N.H Chikuruwo& T. Kanyowa, (2022) Development of a Hybrid Smart Energy Distribution Decision Support Model: Case of Zimbabwe, The 2022 System Dynamics Conference
  3. P. Mupfumira & Michael Mutingi, (2022) Smart Cities Hybrid Conceptual Modelling –Research Methodology Extended Abstract, The System Dynamics Colloquium
  4. P Mupfumira, W. T. Rukweza, (2015) Design of a Microcontroller-based Temperature Humidity Control System of Biomass Fired Tobacco Curing Barn for Small to Medium Scale Farmers in Zimbabwe, International Conference on Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (ICMIE’15), Harare, Zimbabwe, July 14-15
  5. P. Mupfumira, B. Wirjodirdjo, (2015) An Economically Sustainable Urban Public Transport Framework: System Dynamics Modelling Approach to Reduce Public Transport Liberalisation Impact in Harare City International Journal of Science, Technology and Society, Volume 3, Issue 2-2, April 2015, Pages: 11-2