Oku Nyong

Biography

Dr Oku Nyong attended the Polytechnic Calabar and Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University in Bauchi State, Nigeria, where he studied Mechanical Engineering. He later earned a Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Rivers State University of Technology in Port Harcourt, where he majored in Thermo-fluid Engineering. He was employed in 2003 and became a lecturer at Cross River University of Technology Calabar, Nigeria, in the Department of Mechanical Engineering in 2010. In 2017, he finished his PhD program at the University of Sheffield. During his PhD studies, he participated in various workshops such as Large Group Teaching, Assessment and Feedback, Small Group Teaching (Laboratory Demonstration), and Research Project Supervising. After completing these training courses, he was employed on a part-time basis as a Graduate Teaching Assistant for the Department of Mechanical Engineering, the University of Sheffield where he demonstrated and taught undergraduate and postgraduate student’s modules on thermodynamics, Heat transfer, Fluid mechanics and CFD modelling.
His PhD thesis was on the development of a Rapid Compression Machine for Screening of Alternative Fuels for Gas Turbines. His research areas were primarily focused on test rig designs and autoignition delay testing of alternative fuel, chemical kinetics modelling of fuels, and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modelling of systems.
Following that, he worked as a Research Associate/Experimental Officer at the University of Sheffield's Low Carbon Combustion Centre, where he gained practical experience and skills in running the Rolls Royce Tag combustor and carried out experiments on the emission and particulate measurement (PM) of alternative fuels and blends.
The following awards have been bestowed upon him: 2001 Bauchi State Certificate of Honour (NYSC Honours), 2013 ASME International Gas Turbine Institute (USA) IGTI Award, 2014 Royal Aeronautical Society Award Centennial Scholarship Award, United Kingdom, and 2016 ASME International Gas Turbine Institute IGTI Award (USA). He is a Nigerian, COREN-registered engineer, a member of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), and a London-based associate member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE).
He recently won a TETFUND research grant worth 4.5 million Naira and presently working on the development of a Shell and Tube Heat Exchanger. He currently works as a lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Cross River University of Technology, where he also the leader of the Combustion and Energy System research group.