PROFESSOR EMERITUS AUGUSTINE O. ESOGBUE, Ph. D., FIEEE, FAS, FAEng, NNOMANOG’s inaugural Image and Service award was presented to PROFESSOR EMERITUS AUGUSTINE O. ESOGBUE, Ph. D., FIEEE, FAS, FAEng, NNOM.

Engineer Professor Augustine O. Esogbue serves as Professor Emeritus in the world famous H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He is the 2006 Laureate of the prestigious Nigerian National Order of Merit (NNOM) prize in engineering and technology for intellectual and professional excellence and for contributions to Nigerian and global development. He received his B.Sc. degree (Electrical Engineering with Minor in Mathematics) from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1964; M.Sc. (Industrial Engineering and Operations Research) from Columbia University, New York in 1965, and the Ph. D.(Engineering- Industrial and Systems Engineering/Operations Research and Control Theory) from the University of Southern California in 1968 becoming the first person of African descent to hold that degree. He earned a postdoctoral certificate in Dynamics of Health Systems Modeling from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge in 1974. From 1968-1972, he was Assistant Professor of Operations Research and Member of the Systems Research Center at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland Ohio. He joined the Faculty of Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) in 1972 as an Associate Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering under a joint appointment with the Health Systems Research Centre. In 1977, he was promoted to the rank of Full Professor, with tenure, becoming the first African to attain this rank in a major research university in the U.S. and the first BLACK full Professor in Georgia Tech’s history.