Prof. Patience Ebehiremen Orukpe

University of Benin

Fall 2013

Prof. Patience Orukpe is a Professor of Electrical/Electronic Engineering and joined the services of University of Benin in 2000. She obtained her PhD in Electrical and Electronic (Control) Engineering and MSc (Control Systems) from Imperial College London in 2009 and 2002 respectively. She was awarded the Commonwealth Scholarship for her PhD. and M.Sc. degrees in 2004 and 2001 respectively. She obtained her M.Eng (Electronics & Telecommunications) and B.Eng (Electrical/Electronic Engineering) from University of Benin in 2000 and 1998 respectively. She also holds a National Diploma in Electrical/Electronic Engineering from Auchi Polytechnic. She was awarded the TOTAL/GOOGLE/MIT-ETT Fellowship in 2012 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA. Prof. Patience Orukpe is the current Director of Advanced Digital Engineering Centre, immediate past Head of Department of Electrical/Electronic Engineering (2021 to 2023), past Director of Centre for Maritime Studies & ICT (2014 to 2017). She has served as an external assessor, examiner and moderator to several universities and polytechnics. She is a member of the NUC and COREN accreditation teams to several universities. She is a member of NSE, IAENG, OWSD, APWEN, NABET, a Fellow of College of Biomedical Engineering and Technology and COREN Registered. She has over a hundred publications in local, national and international journals and conferences. She has supervised twelve (12) PhD students, thirty-three (33) MEng students and one hundred and twenty-five (125) undergraduate students. Prof. Patience Orukpe is a sociable person that loves reading and traveling. She is married and blessed with children.