…Emerges Second Professor of CEE in ESUT

By Timothy Nwobodo

Enugu – Nigeria’s first state university of Science and Technology, the Enugu State University of Science and Technology, ESUT, has produced the FIRST FEMALE Professor in Computer Engineering in Enugu State.

Prof Nnenna Harmony Nwobodo-Nzeribe achieved this feat in August this year after she was elevated to the rank of a professor by the University management in the latest promotion exercise.

Professor Nwobodo-Nzeribe has distinguished herself in several capcities including serving her second term position as the Head of Department Computer Engineering between 2021 and 2023. She served in the same position in 2018/2020.

She was former Deputy Director in charge of skills in the Entrepreneurship Development Centre from 2017 to 2020. Currently appointed as Director Research and Innovation Centre of Excellence and by her elevation becomes the second Professor in the department, hence breaking the record as the first female Professor of Computer Engineering in Enugu State.

Investigation is ongoing to ascertain if she is also the first female Computer Engineering Professor in Nigeria.
An erudtie pedagogist with astonishing certificates, Prof Nnenna Harmony Nwobodo-Nzeribe, possesses B.Eng (Electrical/Electronic Engineering) M.Eng and Ph.D. (Electrical/Electronic/Computer Engineering) from ESUT, Enugu State and Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State, respectively.
She also obtained MPhil in Medical Technology from Anglia Ruskin University Chelmsford, Essex, United Kingdom.

This led into her coordinating Biomedical Engineering Technology in the university, which is also gaining its ground.
She is a member of national and international processional bodies in her filed; Prof Nwobodo-Nzeribe is the current chairman, Association of Professional of Women Engineers of Nigeria (APWEN), Enugu Chapter; pioneered and founded Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World, (OWSD) ESUT Chapter in year 2021. She is a Fellow/member of Association of Biomedical Engineers and Technologists of Nigeria; member of Nigeria Society of Engineers; member Council of Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria; member Society of Women Engineer (SWE); USA, member International Association of Engineers; member Institution of Electrical and Electronics Engineering; member Nigeria Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (NIEEE), Enugu chapter, and member Nigeria Women in Information Technology, Enugu Chapter.

She has presented papers in many conferences and has some journal papers and five textbooks published to her credit. During her time as head of the department of Computer Engineering, she organised an international conference/Alumni Home Coming of the department from June 26th to 28th, 2024, which was the first of its kind since 39 years of the department’s existence.
as a mentor, she has also supervised many Graduate and postgraduate students

Prof Nwobodo-Nzeribe is married with children.