{"id":9639,"date":"2017-02-06T11:39:42","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T10:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=9639"},"modified":"2017-12-04T09:28:19","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T08:28:19","slug":"chijioke-professor-mark-okoro-2","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/chijioke-professor-mark-okoro-2\/","title":{"rendered":"CHIJIOKE, Prof. Mark Okoro"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor of Engineering, Rector, Institute of Management and Tech nology: Born February 15, 1929 at Arochukwu, Imo State, Education: University of London, graduated B.Sc (with 1st class Hons), Ph. D (Electrical-Engineering) C.Engineering F. I.E.E., M.I.E.E.E. appointed Research Engineer with the British Insulated Calenders &#8211; Cables Ltd. 1956-58, lectured at Eastham College London, 1958; College of Arts Science &#038; Technology, Zaria now (Ahmadu Bello University) J95860; senior lecturer &#8211; Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, 1962, associate Professor Swarthmore University, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. 1963-64; asso ciate Professor, and head of depart ment, Electrical Engineering, Uni versity of Nigeria, Nsukka 1966-70; Dean, Faculty of Engineering, Uni versity of Nigeria 1970-73; member of the 1967 &#8211; National Advisory Council on Technical and Vocational Education, and the 1966-67 edi torial committee of the Science Association of Nigeria; foundation member, Council of Registered En gineers of Nigeria (COREN), foun dation. Fellow of the Nigerian Aca demy of Science; Publication: wrote &#8220;A critique on the conduction characteristics of the &#8220;Potential Minimal Diode.&#8221; Journal of the Institute of Electrical Engineers 1958; &#8216;The Criers&#8221; Published in &#8220;A West African Anthology of Modern Verse&#8221;, 1952; &#8220;A Practical Approach to an Early Technical Education&#8221;, &#8220;Impact&#8221;, published in English and French in Impact,Scien ce oid Society (Paris) Vol XXIII No. v: 1973 &#8220;Earth Satellites&#8221; on fhe kinematics and dynamics of satellite launchings, published in 1965, in &#8216;The Engineer&#8221; jdurnal af the Engineering Society of Ah madu Bello University, Zaria, &#8220;Un derstanding Your Radio Entertainer&#8221; \u2014a series of educational articles on the electronics of radio services, published in 1962 and 63; Married and has children; Address (Home). 33A Imoke Street, G.R.A. Enugu; (Office): Institute of Management and Technology, P.M.B. 1079 Enugu; Hobby: Chess, lawn tennis and writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[176],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-9639","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-academia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/9639","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\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/9639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9639"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=9639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}