Dr. Joshua Otaigbe
Emeritus
Bio
Dr. Otaigbe earned his PhD in polymer science and engineering from the University of Manchester Institute of Science & Technology in England in 1984. He joined University of Â鶹´«Ã½ in 2002 as a full professor of polymer engineering and science following a successful career at Iowa State University, Corning Incorporated, and elsewhere. Dr. Otaigbe’s awards include the Jefferson Science Fellow, Fulbright-Tocqueville Distinguished Chair Professor in Engineering in France, Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining (UK), Fellow of the Society of Plastics Engineers, Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Engineering, and the prestigious U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER Award. 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.
- PHD - UMIST-Manchester (1984)
- BS - University of Benin (1979)
Undergraduate Courses:
PSC 190 – Materials World
PSC/PSE 361 – Polymer Processing
PSC 360 – Polymer Rheology
PSC 460 – Structure and Mechanical Properties of Polymers and Composites;
PSE 420 – Polymer Composites Engineering
Graduate Courses:
PSC 730 – Polymer Rheology
PSC 820 – Advanced Polymer Composites
PSE 880 - Polymer Processing Fundamentals
- Green hybrid composites from cellulose nanocrystal, Hybrid Polymer Composite Materials, 2017,
- Creep, recovery, and stress relaxation behavior of nanostructured bioactive calcium phosphate glass-POSS/polymer composites for bone implants studied under simulated physiological conditions, JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL MATERIALS RESEARCH PART B-APPLIED BIOMATERIALS, 2019,
- Structure and Biocompatibility of Bioabsorbable Nanocomposites of Aliphatic-Aromatic Copolyester and Cellulose Nanocrystals, BIOMACROMOLECULES, 2017,
- Reduced crystallinity and mobility of nylon-6 confined near the organic--inorganic interface in a phosphate glass-rich nanocomposite detected by 1H--13C NMR, Macromolecules, 2011,
- Generation, characterization, and modeling of polymer micro-and nano-particles, Polymer Physics and Engineering, 2001,
- New phosphate glass/polymer hybrids: Current status and future prospects, Progress in Polymer Science, 2007,
- Uniaxial elongational flow effects and morphology development in LDPE/phosphate glass hybrids, Rheologica acta, 2007,
- Rheokinetics of thermal-induced gelation of waterborne polyurethane dispersions, Macromolecules, 2005,
- Nanostructured polymer blends: Synthesis and structure, Polymer, 2005,
- Recent advances in synthesis, characterization and rheological properties of polyurethanes and POSS/polyurethane nanocomposites dispersions and films, Progress in polymer science, 2009,
- American Chemical Society
- Society of Plastics Engineers
- The Materials Research Society
- The Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining
- The Society of Rheology
- English (Native or Bilingual)