A Nigerian-American Scientist, Robert Okogie has achieved a great feat with a new feather to his wing.
The scientist has been inducted into U.S National Aeronautics Space Administration‘s (NASA) Inventors Hall of Fame.
With about 20 years of working with NASA, Okogie has 21 patented inventions to his credit, and which made him to gain global recognition as the leading expert on silicon carbide-based microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) for use in extreme environments.
It was further gathered that he joined the silicon carbide research group at the agency’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland in 1999.
On its website, NASA stated that,
“He holds more than 20 patents relating to high-temperature devices, including several licensed for commercial use that could reduce spacecraft weight, and thereby launch cost and fuel consumption, while leaving additional space for scientific payloads.”
The lustrous scientist has published more than 50 peer-reviewed papers relating to his field.
Okogie, whose current research focus is in single-chip integrated multifunctional sensing for extreme environments, has a doctorate in Electrical Engineering from New Jersey Institute Of Technology.
