Engr. Prof. Emenike Chinedozi Ejiogu was educated at the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, for the degrees of B.Eng (June 1987) and M.Eng (March 1990), before proceeding for his PhD studies in April 1990, at the Department of Electronic Engineering, National Shinshu University, Nagano-city, Japan, on Japanese Government Ministry of Education Scholarship. Prof. Ejiogu obtained his PhD (Power Devices and Energy Systems), in March 1994.
In June 2011, he was appointed a Professor at the Department of
Electrical Engineering, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Prof. Ejiogu has
since served the university in various positions, such as, the Head of
Department of Electrical Engineering (August 2013-July 2016), the
Executive Chairman, the Board of the University of Nigeria Water
Resources Management Services Limited (2017-2018), Board Member,
University of Nigeria Lion Science Park (2018-Present). Chairman,
Electrical Sub-Committee of the University Municipal Services Committee
(2018-Present). Engr. Prof. Ejiogu is the Executive Adviser to the
Vice-Chancellor on Special Projects (2018-Present). He is the Principal
Investigator of the Laboratory of Industrial Electronics, Power Devices
and New Energy Systems (LIEPNES), University of Nigeria, Nsukka (July
2011 – Present). Engr. Prof. E.C. Ejiogu is also a Visiting Professor at
the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Science,
University of Johannesburg, South Africa (2020 – Present).
In
2018, Prof. Ejiogu led a multidisciplinary group of academic and
non-academic staff of the University of Nigeria to write a proposal that
merited the award of a World Bank Centre of Excellence. This research
grant is worth US $6m (six millions USD), and is the highest of such
awards in the history of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. The Centre
is named the Africa Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Power and
Energy Development (ACE-SPED), and Engr. Prof. Ejiogu is the pioneer
Director/Centre Leader of the Centre.
Prof. Ejiogu belongs to
several professional organizations, such as the New York Academy of
Sciences, USA (1996-Present), Institute of Electrical Engineers, Japan
(IEEJ) (1994-Present), the European Power Electronics Association (EPE)
(1997-present), the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
(IEEE), USA (1992-present), Nigeria Society of Engineers (NSE)
(2017-present). He is a registered Engineer of the Council for
Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN), since 2011.
Engr.
Prof. Ejiogu has numerous publications in reputable international
journals and conferences and has trained numerous master’s and PhD
students, both in Japan and in Nigeria. He also has local and
international patents in new energy devices and systems. His areas of
expertise and research include industrial and innovative electronics,
power devices and new energy systems.