Dr Chinedu Iroegbu

CHINEDU IROEGBU  ——   A POET, PHILOSOPHER AND PHYSICIST HAD HIS PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION AT ENUGU AND NSUKKA RESPECTIVELY.  HE THEN PROCEEDED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA, NSUKKA WHERE HE READ PHYSICS AND OBTAINED FIRST, SECOND AND THIRD DEGREES.  HIS FORESIGHT LED TO THE INAUGURATION OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICS STUDENTS (NAPS) AND HE BECAME THE FIRST NATIONAL PRESIDENT. DURING HIS YOUTH SERVICE, HE FORMED AND WAS THE UNIT COMMANDER OF THE NYSC WAI BRIGADE AND IN VIEW OF THE ACTIVITIES OF THE BRIGADE, HE WAS GIVEN AN NYSC  STATE AWARD IN PLATEAU STATE.

IROEGBU HAS SERVED IN VARIOUS COMMITTEES WITHIN AND OUTSIDE HIS DEPARTMENT. HE HAS REASONABLE EXPERIENCE IN UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION AND HAVE HELD VARIOUS POSITIONS SUCH AS CHAIRMAN,   REVIEW   COMMITTEE  ON  THE  SCIENCE  LABORATORY  TECHNOLOGY TRAINING    PROGRAMME (SLTTP), FUTO (1999),   SOSC BOARD REPRESENTATIVE IN SEET BOARD (1998  –  2000),  MEMBER (SOSC  REPRESENTATIVE),  UNIVERSITY TASK FORCE ON CAMPUS CLEANLINESS AND BEATIFICATION ( 2000  –  2002),  MEMBER,   SECURITY  SUBCOMMITTEE,   FUTO  4TH   ENDOWMENT   FUND   PLANNING   COMMITTEE (PLACEF IV) (2002), MEMBER, SOSC BUILDING SUPERVISORY COMMITTEE(2009), ASSISTANT HALL MASTER, HALL D, FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, OWERRI (1998  –  2002),  SIWES COORDINATOR,  DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS,  FUTO  (1994   –   1997,    2009  –  2011),  HE WAS APPOINTED THE ACTING HEAD, DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE LABORATORY DEPARTMENT IN 2012 AND BEFORE LEAVING OFFICE IN 2015, HE  LEFT THE DEPARTMENT ON A SOUND BASE.  HE ALSO SERVED AS SECRETARY OF THE ACADEMIC STAFF UNION OF UNIVERSITIES (ASUU), FUTO BRANCH FROM 1993 TO 1999.

HE IS ALSO ACTIVE IN HIS PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS.   HE WAS PUBLICITY SECRETARY (2010 – 2014)  AND LATER  IST  VICE – PRESIDENT (2015 – 2017) OF THE SOLAR ENERGY SOCIETY OF NIGERIA (SESN),  CHAIRMAN,  NATIONAL QUIZ  COMPETITION,  NIGERIAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS  (NIP) 31ST AND  43RD ANNUAL CONFERENCES,   DEPARTMENT OF  PHYSICS, FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, OWERRI. IMO STATE  IN 2008 AND 2012  RESPECTIVELY, AND ELECTORAL COMMITTEE MEMBER,  PHYSICS WRITERS SERIES CREATION (PWSC) ELECTION (2019).

CHINEDU HAS AN AMIABLE DEPOSITION AND IS AT PEACE WITH HIMSELF AND SYMPATHETIC TO THE PLIGHT OF OTHERS. HIS MIEN, COMPORTMENT, AND SERVICE TO HUMANITY EARNED HIM THE CONFERMENT OF THE JUSTICE OF THE PEACE (JP) BY THE IMO STATE GOVERNMENT OF NIGERIA IN 1999.  AN AUTHOR AND RESEARCH SCHOLAR IN EXPERIMENTAL SOLID STATE PHYSICS AND MATERIALS SCIENCE, IROEGBU BELONGS TO SEVERAL SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS AND HE IS HAPPILY MARRIED WITH CHILDREN.