A Nigerian professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Dr. Chika Nwankpa, has been appointed Head, Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering (ECE), Drexel University in the United States, reports ITRealms.
Dean, College of Engineering, Drexel University, Dr. Joseph
B. Hughes, affirmed this in a public statement sighted by ITRealms, saying that Dr. Chika Nwankpa
has been with Drexel since 1990, starting as an Assistant Professor of
Electrical and Computer Engineering. He became an Associate Professor in 1995
and a Full Professor in 2002.
Dr. Nwankpa, ITRealms
gathered, earned his M.Engr.Sc. from St. Petersburg Polytechnic State
University in Russia and a Ph.D. from the Illinois Institute of Technology
(IIT) in Chicago, Illinois and has been serving as Interim Department Head for
the last 11 months.
According to the dean, Dr. Nwankpa until his present
appointment has been serving as the Director for the Center for Electric Power
Engineering (CEPE), which supports the research and instructional program of
Drexel University in academic areas associated with electric energy and
power.
In pursuit of these goals, Hughes said, the CEPE works with
electric utilities, state and federal agencies, private industries, nonprofit
organizations and other universities on a wide spectrum of projects. He has been involved in investigating
nonlinear dynamics associated with power systems and electronics leading to the
development of stochastic models representative of energy consumption and
renewable energy sources.
ITRealms also
reports that Dr. Nwankpa’s work has led to development of novel real-time
computation techniques that capture these dynamics.
“The importance of this work lies in the ability to lower
energy costs. The benefit to society will be an infrastructure characterized by
lower energy costs with increased security and sustainable and secure multiple
energy-type delivery systems,” Dr. Hughes said.
An author of some 47 refereed journal papers and 125
conference papers, Dr. Nwankpa has been the result of work that has been supported
by grants totaling over $10 million, about N1.9 billion.
Decorated previously with the prestigious Presidential
Faculty Fellow Award, Dr. Nwankpa was elected Fellow of the Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), an honor reserved for 1 per cent
of over 400,000 members.
ITRealms further
gathered that the ECE department has an enrollment of 842 undergraduate and 161
graduate students, with Dr. Nwankpa depicting exceptional leadership as interim
department head and is well deserving of this permanent position.
“Please join me in congratulating Dr. Nwankpa and wishing him
well in his new role,” Dr. Hughes said.
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Pix: Dr. Chika Nwankpa, courtesy, Dexel University.
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