{"id":15919,"date":"2017-03-16T10:31:05","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T09:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=15919"},"modified":"2017-06-06T18:26:31","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T17:26:31","slug":"nnaji-prof-chief-okegbukwu-bathlowmew","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/nnaji-prof-chief-okegbukwu-bathlowmew\/","title":{"rendered":"NNAJI, Prof. (Chief) Okegbukwu Bathlowmew"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NNOM. B.Sc, M.Sc, Ph.D; physicist mechanical (Robotic) and industrial engineer; DOB: 1956; Place: Umuode; Hometown: Umuode; LGA: Nkanu East; so: Enugu; EDUCATION: St. Mary&#8217;s Elementray School, Umuode, Enugu State, 1962; St James Primary School, Ugbawka, 1964; St Antony, Obe, Enugu State; St. Patrick Secondary School, Emene, 1975; St. John University, New York, 1980; Virgina Tech, USA; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; CAREER: Head, National Science Foundation Centre for Design and Realization; Minister, Science and Technology, Interim National Government, Nigeria; Founder, Nigeria Peoples.Forum, USA; prof. Mechanical and Indusrial Engineering, University of Massachusett, USA; AICOA Foundation Chair, Manufacturing Engineer, University of Pittsburgh, 1996; dir. Centre for e-Design, National Science Foundation; currently, ch. Geometric Power-Renatech Consortium, (Power Station Assembly Plant), Abuja; publ: Computer Integrated Manufacturing and Engineering; h: Doctorate, Federal University of Technology, Yola, 1997;award: The first black man to be awarded the St John&#8217;s University Presidents award for Academic Exellence, 1980; Oustanding Young Manufacturing Engineer, 1988; Outstanding Young Industrial Engineer, 1992; U.S. Secretary of States Distinguished Public Service award, 1995; the first foreigner in the history of the United States to deliver Secretary of State&#8217;s Annual Distinguished Public Service Ucture, 1996; ARCO Exellence in Science and Technology award; Distinguished Scientist award. World Bank IMF Africa Group, 1998; Baker Distinguish Research award, 2001; nh: Nigerian National Order of Merit, 2004; Traditional Title: Onwa Naetiri-ora 1of Nkanuland; off: Geometric Power-Renatech Consortium (Power Stattion Assembly Plant), Abuja, Nigeria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[2400,2405],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-15919","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-engineering","category-scientist"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/15919","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\/6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/15919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15919"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=15919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}