{"id":10025,"date":"2017-02-08T13:45:19","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T12:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&p=10025"},"modified":"2017-06-08T15:24:50","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T14:24:50","slug":"okafor-frank-nwoye","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/okafor-frank-nwoye\/","title":{"rendered":"OKAFOR, Frank Nwoye"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Date of Birth: Friday (Afo) 3rd November, 1961 Local Government Area: Idemili North Village\/Town: Ogidi Contact Address: Residence: 4, Femi Adebule Street Off Folagoro Shomolu. Office: Dept of Electrical Engineering. University of Lagos, Akoka Lagos Contact Telephone: 234-8023004935 Fax: 234-1-5821-492 Email Address: cfirankok@yahoo.eom Engr. Dr Frank Nwoye Okafor is a top academic and a professional engineer. Dr Okafor has combined academic success with brilliant engineering professional practice as a teacher and consultant. Education St Philip’s Central School Ogidi First School Leaving Certificate 1971 \u2022 Boys Secondary School Ogidi WASC Grade I Distinction 1977 \u2022 University of Lagos B.Sc Hons Electrical Engineering. 1984 University of Lagos. M.Ph. Electrical Engineering. 1987. PhD 1993 \u2022Publications Condition based evaluation of power equipment and Devices 2003 with grant from German Technical Co-operation. Modelling Control and Applications of Double-Fed fully controlled induction wind Generators 2002- sponsored by German Research Foundation Development of Computer Controlled Schemes for Industrial Plants 1992 sponsored by the Federal Government of Nigeria through the Central Research Committee ( CRC) of the University of Lagos. Current Trends in Condition- based Evaluation of Power Equipment Proceedings of H1VOTEC Colloquium, Sheraton Hotel& Towers . Abuja July 2nd 4″‘ 2003.. pp. 97 102 Engineering Challenges Associated with Real-Time Operation of a Deregulated Electricity Industry in Nigeria’ Proceedings of NSE Conference Ibadan 8-12 December. 2003 . pp. 305 313 Doubly-Fed full controlled induction wind Generator for Optimal Power Utilization . Proceedings of’ IEEE PEDS. 2001 Computer-Aided Design for SISO Control Systems. Undergraduate Project Report. Dept of Electrical Engineering University of Lagos. 1984 Design of Variable Structure Automatic Generation Controllers from Electrical Power System PhD Thesis. University of Lagos. Electrical Engineering Department 1993 Development of a Computer-Aided Control System Design Package M.Phl. Dissertation. University of Lagos. Electrical Engineering Department 1987. Commitments to the University and Beyond \u2022 Co-ordinator. University of Lagos Technical University of Dresden Research Group on innovative Energy Systems. \u2022 Taught many courses at undergraduate and post graduate levels \u2022 Supervised projects of undergraduate students postgraduate and PhD theses supervisor \u2022 M.Sc. Theses external examiner. \u2022 Guest Fellow. 2000-2001 Dept of Electrical Machines and Drives. Technical University of Chemnitiz. Germany \u2022 Scientific Co-ordinator of the HIVOTEC Project ( August 2002) \u2022 Visiting Professor. Technical University of Dresden. Germany \u2022 Senior Lecturer in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Lagos since 2000 \u2022 Proficient in BASIC. FORTRAN AND ‘C” Programming Languages in Computer Application since 1982 Current research interest includes \u2022 Power System Security Monitoring using agents, computational techniques of power Systems studies under deregulation. \u2022 Economic Evaluation of Inter-connected networks in Africa \u2022 Distribution load flow models in deregulated environment- incorporating embedded generation system \u2022 FACTS Application to enhance the available transfer capacity of existing transmission system. Membership of Professional Associations \u2022 Member US-Africa Collaborative Research Group co-ordinated by Prof James Momoh of Howard University. USA \u2022 Member Nigeria Society of Engineers \u2022 Registered Member of COREN No. R. 4255 \u2022 Fellow of Nigeria Society of Engineers FNSE No. 04244 \u2022 Corporate Member of German Society of Electrical Engineer( VDE) \u2022 Member. Institute of Appraised and Cost Engineers Conferences \u2022 IEEE-AFRICAN Conference . Cape Town South Africa September 28- October Is” 1999 \u2022 NSE National Conference Ilorin December 1999 International Conference on Renewable energy generation system GK 2000 Hohenstein\/Ersnstthal Germany October 20 221″1 2000 \u2022 NSE National Conference . Abuja Sheraton. Hotel and Towers. Nov 2000 \u2022 HICHVOL Colloquium 2003. Dresden. Germany May 21″ 24″‘ \u2022 HIVOTEC Colloquium Abuja Nigeria July 2nd 4″‘ 2003 IEED AFRICON Conference. Gaborione. Botswana. September 15- 17 2004. 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