Industrial Production and Practice Research Group

Main Research Focus and other areas of research interests: The research group focuses on scientific and applied research solutions to industrial production problems and product developmental strategy. It is hoped that this research approach on real-life industrial production problems facing Nigeria will help reduce rate of factory closure and initiate plans for new factory start- ups.

 

As a result, the research group will undertake activities focused on:

  • Design, development and testing of new product lines
  • Industrial process planning, design and improvement
  • Coordination and management of operations on lease basis.
  • Energy in industry: supply and demand projections
  • Maintenance Management
  • Embodied energy of product and services assessments
  • Jobbing operations, planning and execution
  • Human factors/ergonomics influence in productive systems
  • Condition monitoring of plants and machinery
  • Life cycle assessment of industrial production systems (impact of production environment)

 

Name of the RG coordinator: Engr Professor Stephen Chijioke Nwanya

UNN Email address of the coordinator:  Stephen.nwanya@unn.edu.ng

Telephone number of the coordinator: +2348057250082

UNN email address of RG:

UNN webpage of RG:

Base Faculty of RG: Engineering

Department of the Coordinator: Department of Mechanical Engineering

Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=aF-XBMwAAAAJ&hl=en

 

List and profile of members:

Engr Prof S. C. Nwanya

Engr Dr Paul A. Ozor

Engr Dr Patrick U. Akpan

Engr Dr Henry Ononiwu

Engr Celestine N. Achebe.

 

 

Brief Profiles:

  • Nwanya, Stephen Chijioke is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering (Industrial Production Engineering & Management; Ergonomics) at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Nigeria Nsukka, Nigeria. As a self-driven and career-oriented engineer, he desires to excel in professional practice and academic mentoring of youths. Stephen C. Nwanya is registered with the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria, (COREN). The outline of this profile is as follows: work experience, personal biodata, education, membership of professional bodies, scholarly achievements and research publications.

Website Url: https://www.unn.edu.ng/internals/staff/viewProfile/MzQ5OQ–/5

  • Ozor Paul: Senior lecturer in the department of mechanical technology. Email: pozor@uj.ac.zaozor@unn.edu.ng
  • Nnaemeka Achebe: Interested in production Planning, operations management and performance measurement. Email: achebe@unn.edu.ng,
  • Patrick Akpan: Patrick U. Akpan is a Senior Lecturer with the department of Mechanical Engineering and the Chairman, Faculty of Engineering Digital Education Committee, at the University of Nigeria.His responsibilities as the Faculty Committee Chairman includes: (a) creating awareness for the adaptation of digital education in the faculty, (b) training faculty and encouraging the mainstreaming of emerging solutions for digital education in teaching and learning, (c) Liaising with the University’s ICT unit on the maximum use of all the available resources on digital education to the faculty. His expertise covers the design, modelling and thermal performance evaluation and optimization of conventional & renewable energy & power systems. His expertise also covers energy systems integration, audit, management, and deployment. He has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering (specializing in Power Plant Engineering) from the Eskom Energy Efficiency Centre of the University of Cape Town in South Africa, an MSc in Process Systems Engineering (specializing in Energy Systems and Thermal processes) from Cranfield University United Kingdom and a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Nigeria. Email: Patrick.akpan@unn.edu.ng
  • Ndudim Henry: Dr Ononiwu’s research expertise and preference are in industrial and production engineering. Core research sub-topics include metal matrix composites, machining, production systems, processes optimization, and sustainable engineering. In these subject areas, Dr Ononiwu have been involved in research endeavours by way of independent and collaborative research, undergraduate project supervision, and his postgraduate studies. For his Doctoral research, Dr Ononiwu studied the effect of waste materials on the performance of aluminium matrix composites. He identified the need for environmental sustainability, cost reduction and improvement of the overall properties of aluminium as his research motive. Machinability studies of the resulting composites were conducted to ascertain how the reinforcements affect selected cutting indices during machining.