Prof. Chigbo Aghaegbusi Mgbemene

University of Nigeria, Nsukka

Fall 2013

Prof. Chigbo A. Mgbemene is a professor of Mechanical Engineering and COREN registered. He received the B. Eng. degree in 1991, M. Eng. degree in 2002 and PhD in January 2011 in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He was a Fulbright scholar at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Massachusetts, USA from 2006 to 2007 where he carried out his doctoral research work. He was an Associate Dean Faculty of Engineering University of Nigeria. Currently, he teaches at the Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Nigeria, Nsukka and also is the General Manager of AEDJAC Systems Development and Laboratory Ltd – a laboratory/maker space which he founded. His research areas include Renewable Energy, Gas Turbine Technology, Fluid Dynamics, Heat Transfer, Waste Heat Recovery, Basic Robotics, Physical Models Creation and Conversion of Agricultural Waste Materials to Building Materials. He is a recipient of several international fellowships, including a research fellowship at the Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland in 2010, which involved research that won the 2011 Acknowledgement Prize of the prestigious Holcim International Awards for Sustainable Construction Africa/Middle East, and the 2012 “Materialica Design + Technology Gold Award” in Germany. Also included is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, MISTI of USA fellowship. He has published in notable international journals in his field. He is a Fellow of Higher Education Academy UK and a member of numerous professional and scholarly societies.