Summary

Joshua Otaigbe has had a circuitous career that spans three continents and has had great impact on education and research as well as on industrial practice. He specializes in polymer engineering and materials science and is currently a full professor in University of Southern Mississippi and Principal Partner of Flaney Associates LLC. He has enjoyed highly successful careers in industry and academia and has held numerous senior level appointments including Senior Project Leader and Engineer at Corning Incorporated and the Fulbright-Tocqueville Distinguished Chair Professor in Engineering in France for 2013-2014. The latter award is an appointment reserved for eminent scholars with substantial experience and publications in their respective fields. From 2003-2012, he was awarded invited visiting professorships in the Swiss Federal Institute of technology (ETH-Zurich) and the French Engineering Universities, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA) in Lyon, France. Otaigbe earned his PhD in polymer science and engineering from the University of Manchester Institute of Science & Technology in England in 1984. He joined The University of Southern Mississippi in 2002 as a professor of polymer engineering and science following a successful career at Iowa State University and elsewhere. At Iowa State University, Otaigbe became a tenured Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering and of Materials Science & Engineering, and Leader of Polymers and Composite Research Group. Otaigbe has won a number of awards, including the Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining in the United Kingdom, Fellow of the Society of Plastics Engineers, Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Engineering, and the prestigious U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER Award. He was listed as an honored member in Who's Who of American Inventors (1998-1999 edition). Otaigbe holds seven U.S. patents and has published more than 150 refereed archival scientific journal papers.

Experience

Currently Full Professor of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Southern Mississippi since 2002 and Principal Partner, Flaney Associates LLC.

More than 36 years of experience in University teaching and research and of industrial practice.

SPE Positions Held

• Board Member, EPSDIV