By Amaechi Agbo

The Vice-Chancellor, Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT), Prof Aloysius-Michaels Okolie has confirmed the appointment of Associate Professor Dorathy Obianuju Abonyi as the Associate Dean, School of Postgraduate Studies.

Associate Professor Abonyi’s appointment was sequel to the recommendation of the Dean, PG, Professor Charles Chime.

Professor Chime told ESUT Monitor in an interview why she was recommended for the job.

“She is a Electronic Engineer from Electronic department, she was a the immediate past HoD of her department. We have seen her and she is someone that is very dedicated and resourceful. When the Vice-Chancellor wanted to appoint somebody as the Associate Dean, I recommended her. It wasn’t difficult to appoint her because we have seen her work,” Prof Chime said.

Associate Professor Dorathy Abonyi graduated with 2nd Class Honours Upper division in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from ESUT in 1999. She further obtained a Master of Engineering (M.Eng) degree of the same University in 2003.

She joined the services of ESUT in 2007 as an Assistant Lecturer after an earlier industry experience as a staff of The Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) where she grew rapidly to Principal Engineer, FRCN Training School.

Dr. Dorathy later proceeded to the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom as Tetfund Scholar where she bagged ,Master of Science in Engineering with major in Data Communication Engineering and crowned it up with a PhD degree.

Dorathy has been a two tenure Head of Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering with outstanding records of leadership. As HOD and in her quest for collaborative research and love for environment, she attracted two million naira fund from CBN to build an innovative ESUT BSG (Brainstorming garden) where researchers gather in small groups in a natural environment to build research ideas. She also attracted funds from other individuals to implement a digital display and signage in EEE and MPE building making the Departments stand out from any other Department in the University. As a Head of Department, Dorathy ensured that all students of the Department ready for graduation graduated on schedule. Her footprints in EEE department are too numerous to mention.

Dorathy, is currently an Associate Professor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of ESUT with over 40 Journal and Conference paper Publications in highly rated local and International journals and have attended several conferences in USA, UK, India, China, Italy, Morocco and within Nigeria where she presented original researched papers. She has been recently appointed the Associate Dean, School of Postgraduate Studies, ESUT for the 2023/2024 and 2024/2025 academic sessions.

She is versed in the Communication Systems Engineering where she has done works on Antennas, Radio wave propagation, Localization systems and other areas of Wireless and data communication Engineering. Dorathy has a special interest in Engineering management where she has published some papers and currently a part-time lecturer at ESUT Business school, Enugu.

She is a member of a number of Professional Associations including; the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), Association of Professional women Engineers of Nigeria (APWEN), Institute of Engineering & Technology (IET), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), International Association of Engineers (IAENG).

It is expected that Associate Professor Abonyi will bring her wealth of experience to bear in repositioning the School of Postgraduate Studies in ESUT.