{"id":13353,"date":"2017-03-02T15:46:32","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T14:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=13353"},"modified":"2017-05-24T10:23:35","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T09:23:35","slug":"kuale-prof-philip-avwunuvwia","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/kuale-prof-philip-avwunuvwia\/","title":{"rendered":"KUALE, Prof. Philip Avwunuvwia"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B.Eng., Ph.D.; electrical engineer, educationist, administrator; b: October 30, 1935,ht: Ogoni- Olomu, Ughelli, so: Delta; m: Comfort Ugboduma Erhirhie 1961; nc: three s, two d; ed: CMS School, Okpari, 1943-50; Dennis Memorial Grammar School, Onitsha, 1951-56; Yaba Technical Institute, now Yaba College of Technology, Lagos, 1957-60; College of Arts, Science and Technology, Enugu 1961-62; University of Sheffield, England, 1962-68. cr: asst Technical Officer-in-Training, Jimeta-Yola, Gongola State, now Adamawa and Taraba States; asst. Technical Officer, Electricity Corporation of Nigeria (now National Electric Power Authority, NEPA), 1957-61; Engineer-in-charge, Generation, Distribution of Electric Power and Administration, Bida and later Abakaliki Stations, 1961-62; asst. Technical Officer, Electricity Distribution and Maintenance, Benin-City, Edo State, 1966; worked at 275\/400 KV Sub-Station Operations, UK, and Control Room Operations (routine maintenance of steam turbine generation station), UK; Design Engineer, Ranco Motors Limited, North Berwick, Scotland, 1968-69; Lecturer, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, 1969-73; Senior Ucturer, 1973-76; aprof. Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, 1976-79; prof. Electrical Power and Machines, University of Benin, Benin- City, 1979; v-c. Bendel State University (now Edo State Univeristy), Ekpoma, 1985-1989; Consultant, Continuing Education Programme for NEPA Engineers on Voltages and Insulation requirements in Power System; editor. Nigerian Journal of Engineering and later, its editorin- chief; former mem. Board of Governors, Auchi Polytechnic, Edo State, Institution of Electrical Engineers, London, Nigerian Society of Engineers, Council of Registered Engineers of Nigeria; v-ch. Nigerian Association of University Teachers, 1972-73; ch. National Com mittee for Review of Electricity Regulations; mm: National Metrication Committee; Commonwealth Scholarship Board, cw: Led team of Nigerian Scientists in collaboration with the Delta State Government to design Waterless Harvestable Composting Toilets for Delta State . hob: religious activities, reading, off: c\/o University of Benin, Benin City, Edo State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[1505,2399],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-13353","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-educationist","category-engineer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/13353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/13353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13353"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=13353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}