Rowland Ugochukwu AZIKE

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Department of Chemical/Petroleum Engineering Igbinedion University ,Okada, Edo State, Nigeria

CURRENT POSITION: Professor of Chemical Engineering

RESEARCH INTEREST: Corrosion control, Chemical reaction engineering, Environmental
engineering, Drilling fluid, Mud engineering and renewable energy.

AREA OF SPECIALIZATION: Corrosion control, Reaction engineering, Chemical Engineering
Process design, Process Modeling and Simulation. 

AWARD AND HONOUR:
BSc. Biochemistry, 1997,
PGD. Chemical Engineering, 2001,
M. Eng. Chemical Engineering, 2006,
PhD in Chemical Engineering, 2016

AFFILIATION: Member, Nigeria society of Chemical Engineers (NShE)
Member, Nigerian society of Engineers (NSE)

COURSES LECTURER:

UNDERGRADUATE
EMA 201 and EMA202 (Engineering Mathematics I and II)
CHE 571 (Biochemical Reaction Engineering)
CHE 481 (Computer Application in Chemical Engineering)
CHE 461 ( Chemical Reaction Engineering II)

POSTGRADUATE
CHE 841 and CHE 842: Chemical Reaction Engineering I and II
CHE 821and CHE822: Mathematical Method in Chemical
Engineering I and II
CHE 894: Corrosion and Protection of Metals.

Prof. Azike Rowland Ugochukwu, a Professor with specialization in Reaction Engineering, Corrosion and Environmental control and have interest in Application of software to Chemical Engineering Design, Process Design and Analysis, is a Nigerian, holder of PhD degree from University of Benin, has fifteen (15) years cognate experience in the Private University as a teacher, a researcher, manager, and an administrator and seven (7) years’ experience in industry as a researcher, manager, and a consultant. He is a member of two professional bodies NSE and NSChE.
Presently, in the employ of Igbinedion University, Okada as Professor in the department of Chemical /Petroleum Engineering and Dean in the College of Engineering. His duties was basically lecturing and research apart from administrative responsibilities.

He rose through the rank from Lecturer II to professorship in Chemical Engineering. He had served in various committees in the past and currently serving in capacity as a chairman or member of a committee in the university and college, such as Accreditation committee, Appointment and Promotion Committee (A&PC), New Programme Committee, to mention but a few. He has experience in the use of Computer software like HYSYS, ChemCAD, PROII to solve Chemical Engineering Design and Simulation problems and using Pipesim to solve pipeline and facility problems and Reservoir simulations. He was also Environmental Compliance Manager in Thermosteel Nigeria limited, Effurun, where he gained industrial experience in Consultancy, Analytical Laboratory services, Environmental Compliance Analysis, Writing Reports on Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), Post Impact Assessment (PIA), Quality Control and Quality Assurance Analysis and Technical Report Writing.
He has over 30 publication in national and international journals and had supervised over 35 undergraduate projects, four Master’s degree and one PhD thesis.
He had served as a Resource Person on two occasion in COREN accreditation in public universities and currently the National Vice Chairman of Committee of Deans of Engineering and Technologies
of Nigerian Universities (CODET).

Rowland is married with children and a lover of reading, writing, sports and farming