- Bartholomew Nnaji
Bartholomew Nnaji is a
Nigerian scientist , innovator and one of the inventors of the E-Design concept. He was born inEnugu State , and earned a Bachelor of Science degree inphysics at St John's University, and then proceeded to theVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State University for post-graduate studies.He joined the faculty at
University of Massachusetts , Amherst in 1983. After a few years, he became the director and a founder of theAutomation andRobotics Laboratory at the University. He was made a professor of mechanical andindustrial engineering in 1992. As a researcher, he focused on three major topics:Computer Aided Design , Robotics andComputer Aided Engineering . Using the knowledge he gained from his research pursuits, he created the term geometric reasoning, the idea that most things we operate has a geometric configuration. He is also credited as one of the innovators of the E-design concept.He is also the founder of the first indigenous owned power generating company in Nigeria and was also a former minister for Science and Technology in the country.
He ran in the 2007 Nigerian presidential election as the candidate for the
Better Nigeria Party .External links
*http://www.pitt.edu/~arlweb/people/nnaji.htmlthe bla
References
*Citation of Prof Nnaji, NNMA
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