{"id":9846,"date":"2017-02-07T12:36:43","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T11:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=9846"},"modified":"2017-05-24T10:47:47","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T09:47:47","slug":"ezilo-prof-clifford-chukwuemezie-okoli","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/ezilo-prof-clifford-chukwuemezie-okoli\/","title":{"rendered":"EZILO, prof Clifford Chukwuemezie Okoli"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date of Birth: Tuesday (Afo) 8th March, 1932 State of Origin: Anambra Local Government Area: Njikoka Professor Cliford Chukwuemezie Okoli Ezilo has made an impressive mark in the field ofacademia the profession of Engineering and Technology. He has been a strong role model to those in the profession who are either doing the engineering as an academic disciple, or in production and invention or in industries a way of serving the society. A senior citizen who is an Icon of integrity, Professor Ezilo belongs to a generation of Igbo academics and top professionals who were motivated to aim high purely for the love of service and knowledge not for material gains or fame. He never sought power, fame or material success but the progress and development of the people and society. That is why we still respect him as an Icon not only for the IGBO but for the world but proud that he is from the Igbo noble ancestral extraction. He is a part of Igbo contribution to the progress of the entire world ofacademia and technological progress. Education \u2022 Church Missionary Society (CMS) Central School Ekwulobia 1937 1944 \u2022 Dennis Memorial Grammar School Onitsha 1945 1950 \u2022 Nigerian Railway Technical School 1950 1954 \u2022 University of Leeds, England UK 1954 1960 Work Experience \u2022 Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering, Nigerian College of Arts, Science and Technology, (now Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria), 1960 1964 \u2022 Senior Lecturer, Mechanical Eng. Dept, University ofNigeria Nsukka, 1965 \u2022 He later became Vice Chancellor Membership of Professional Bodies \u2022 Memberof several scientific,academic and professional associationsand had contributed to the growth of Engineering as an academic discipline in Nigerian universities. He is one of the Indigenous lecturers to introduce academic study of Engineering in the first University in Nigeria, the University ofNigeria Nsukka that established Engineering at a degree level. Professor Ezilo was at the vanguard of that breakthrough. Other colonial colleges of Engineering in Nigeria offered Engineering at Diploma level. \u2022 Member, Nigerian Society of Engineers \u2022 Member, American Society of Engineering Education Contributions to the Society and World of Academia and Profession \u2022 Held many administrativeand teaching as well as research posts in the universities. \u2022 Supervised manygraduateand undergraduate students andproduced higher degreestudents whoare nowteaching anddevelopingmanynew departments of Engineering in institutionsof Higher Learningin Nigeria, \u2022 Consultant to many industries and research institutes both locally and internationally. \u2022 Sat at many Committees and Board of universities and companies \u2022 Designed and produced many projects within and outside the countries. \u2022 Professor Ezilo plays and enjoys indoor games. He is married and they are blessed with three children. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[176,178],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-9846","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-academia","category-professional"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/9846","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\/9846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9846"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=9846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}