Ernest Ozoemela Ezugwu

Lecturer II

B.Eng., M.Eng., R-COREN, MNSE
Emailernest.ezugwu@futo.edu.ng

Biography

Ernest Ozoemela, Ezugwu is a COREN registered Engineer and a member of the Nigerian Society of Engineers.  He holds a Bachelor’s degree (B.Eng) in Engineering from Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department, University of Benin, Edo State, Nigeria, in 2013, and a master’s degree (M.Eng.) holder in electrical power system engineering from Federal University of Technology Owerri.

Ernest Ozoemela, Ezugwu has got wide engineering research and industrial experiences having worked as a field Engineer and as an academic. He worked with Vee-Tek Nig. Ltd as Electrical Field Engineer II from 2014 to 2016, where he superintended the building and completion of 3 Nos 7MVA electrical injection substations, installation of 300 Nos of 50KVA transformers and stringing of 30Km 11KV and 9Km 33KV lines, all in Abia state Nigeria.

He is currently, a Lecturer II staff and researcher in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Federal University of Technology Owerri. He has got handful of publications in both local and international journals.

Academic Qualification

  • B.Eng
  • M.Eng
  • COREN Registered
  • Member Nigerian Society of Engineers

Honours/Awards

2019 – School of Engineering and Engineering Technology Outstanding Service Award

Affiliations

  • COREN Registered
  • Member Nigerian Society of Engineers

Courses Assigned to Teach

  • EEE 501 Engineering Control Systems Analysis and Design II
  • PSE 506 Electric Drive Systems
  • PSE 411 Electric Machines
  • EEE 407 Introduction to Linear System Theory
  • ENG 214 Computer Programming for Engineering Application

Experience

  • Federal University of Technology      Lecturer
    • Research Assistant, 2016 –2018
    • Assistant Lecturer, 2018 – September 2019
    • Lecturer II, October 2019 – Date
  • Vee Tek Nig. Ltd      Electrical Field Engineer II 2014 – 2016
    • Design and building of power Distribution Panels, Feeder-pillars and power Change-over
    • Installation Electrical equipment, Earthing of Transformers, Machinery and Testing of the Earthing Resistance, Transformer’s performance Tests.

Research Interest

Renewable Energy Systems, Distributed Energy Market, Microgrids and Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading

Combined Proportional Load Sharing Among Paralleled Inverter With Distributed Optimization for Community Microgrids

Publications

  1. Design of Power Pool Scheme for Demand-Side Management of Co-Located Banks. American Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems 2019; 8(4): 86-94 http://www.sciencepublishinggroup.com/j/epes doi:10.11648/j.epes.20190804.11ISSN: 2326-912X (Print); ISSN: 2326-9200 (Online).
  2. Experimental Design of a Bidirectional Single Phasing Protection for a Three Phase Induction Motor with Voice Notification. International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research. Volume 10, Issue 3, March-2019 ISSN 2229-5518.
  3. Reliability Indices Evaluation of Distribution Networks for Automation.  International Journal of Power Systems, ISSN: 2367-8976 Volume 4, 2019 http://www.iaras.org/iaras/journals/ijps
  4. Utilization of Electricity Consumer Co-operatives in Reduction of Banks’ Energy Cost in Owerri, Nigeria. American Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Vol. 1, No. 2, 2017, pp. 97-101. doi: 10.11648/j.ajece.20170102.17.
  5. Voltage Stability Investigation of the Nigeria 330KV Interconnected Grid System Using Eigenvalues Method.  American Journal of Engineering Research (AJER) e-ISSN: 2320-0847 p-ISSN: 2320-0936 Volume-6, Issue-4, pp-168-182 www.ajer.org.
  6. Energy Crisis in Nigeria-The Way Forward, International Journal of Engineering Research and Management (IJERM) ISSN: 2349- 2058, Volume-04, Issue-05, May 2017.
  7. The solution to the Economic Dispatch Problem of the Nigerian Power System Using Genetic Algorithm. Nigerian Journal of Technology (NIJOTECH), Vol. 38, No. 4, October 2019, pp. 1036 – 1047, Print ISSN: 0331-8443, Electronic ISSN: 2467-8821,www.nijotech.comhttp://dx.doi.org/10.4314/njt.v38i4.29