Professor Samuel E. Ogbeide is a professor of chemical engineering at the General Abdulsalami A. Abubakar College of Engineering, Igbinedion University Okada Edo State Nigeria. He holds a Master of Science degree in petroleum and natural gas processing from the famous Azerbaijan Institute of Oil and Chemistry, Baku, USSR. He obtained MSc degree in advanced chemical engineering from the prestigious Loughborough University of Technology, Loughborough, UK He obtained PhD degree in chemical engineering specializing in energy conservation in the process industry from University of Salford, UK.
He has lectured in the University of Benin, rising through the ranks, from graduate assistant to full professorship position. He taught all core chemical engineering courses in chemical engineering, and supervised undergraduate and postgraduate candidates. He has produced more than thirty PhD degree holders in chemical engineering and more than two hundred M. Eng. degree holders. His research team at University of Benin has secured a patent on fluidized bed gasification of biomass. He has published over seventy papers in local, national and international journals
He was a visiting reservoir engineer at Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) Port Harcourt in year 2000. He served as a consultant in the Shell Intensive Training Programme, where he taught reservoir engineering to fresh engineering intake of shell personnel. He served as a visiting professor in chemical engineering at Niger Delta University. There, he taught chemical and petroleum engineering courses to both undergraduate and postgraduate students, supervised the first M.Eng. candidate and developed the computer simulation laboratory for the department. He has served as external examiner in chemical engineering in various universities at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He has also served as external assessor of professorial candidates, and NUC accreditation teams to several chemical/petroleum. engineering programs in Nigerian universities.
He is currently on contract professorial appointment at Igbinedion University Okada, where he is continuing teaching and research undertakings, mentoring younger lecturers and developing a flourishing research team. His present research projects focus on carbon capture system from agricultural residues and modeling and simulation of pyrolysis of biomass.
Professor Samuel E. Ogbeide is happily married and the marriage is blessed with five children. One of the children holds a PhD degree in chemical engineering from the University of Western Ontario, Canada.