FACULTY OF NATURAL AND APPLIED SCIENCES
FACULTY BUILDING
PROFILE OF THE DEAN
Prof. Shehu Sa’id Farinwata holds the following academic qualifications; PhD Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), Electrical Engineering – Systems and Control; Domain: Advanced Electronics, Communication Systems and DSP, USA, 1993; CIMS (Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems) Certificate, Georgia Tech, USA, 1993; PhD Minor: Applied Mathematics, Georgia Tech, 1993, USA; M.Sc, B.Sc (Electrical Engineering/Electronics), University of Detroit, Detroit, Michigan, USA, 1985.
He has extensive industrial experiences of over ten years with General Motors Corporation in Milford and Warren Michigan, USA as Project Engineer, and as Technical Specialist with Ford Motor Company’s Scientific Research Lad, Dearborn, Michigan, USA; and the General Electric-Fanuc Automation in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA. His experience ranges from automotive navigation systems at General Motors Corporation (GMC) to intelligent engine control, load estimation for automatic transmission, emissions, software design for stable intelligent systems at Ford Motor Company’s Scientific Research Laboratory, to programmable logic control programming and debugging at General Electric Company. While as a graduate intern, he gave several seminars on advanced control techniques at Ford Research Lab. He served as an Assistant Professor with the Electrical Engineering at University of Texas at Tyler, USA, and as graduate adjunct faculty at Wayne State University in Detroit, USA. He was a pioneer faculty at the American University in Dubai, UAE. Prof. Farinwata has had extensive engineering accreditation experience (ABET) at the electrical engineering department at the University of Texas at Tyler, and the UAE’s National Accreditation (MOHE) at American University in Dubai and as Associate Professor at the Petroleum Institute in Abu Dhabi, UAE. He gained valuable knowledge and exposure to the oil and gas industry while at the Petroleum Institute in Abu Dhabi where he also served as the 2006 Internship advisor for students’ industrial attachment at ADNOC (Abu Dhabi National Oil Company) and its subsidiaries. He has published in the area of intelligent control systems, power systems and engineering education, and is the author/editor of the book: Fuzzy Control Systems: analysis and Systems, John Wiley, 2000 and a chapter contributor in the book “Fuzzy Logic Implementation and application”, by M. Patyra, John Wiley, 1996. He had chaired, co-chaired several IEEE conferences nationally (USA) and internationally. He had enjoyed serving the community in Michigan as a volunteer teacher at Detroit’s Redford High School, 12th Grade, through Junior Achievement of Michigan, and as a judge in the Metro-Detroit Science and Engineering Fair. Prof. Farinwata is intensely passionate about teaching and institutional academic excellence. He is relentless and inspiring in his efforts to uphold and transfer the highest standard of academic excellence to the student, the program and the institution as a whole. He is currently with Nasarawa State University. He is the current ICT Chairman of the University and a member of the University’s Governing Council. He is striving to make dramatic impact to the Mathematical Sciences Department and the faculty as a whole with the untiring cooperation and support so far rendered by the administration. He hailed from Kofar Masa, Keffi, Nasarawa State, and Bida, Niger State. He attended the Federal Government College, Sokoto where he graduated Division One with Distinction – highest honour. He has served H.E, the Executive Governor of Nasarawa State, Alhaji Akwe Doma (Madaucin Doma) as Chairman of a Sub-committee to understudy special science secondary school education in the state in 2009. Prof. Farinwata served the office of the Chief Economic Adviser to the President Musa Yar’adua (Late) at the Presidency on the Critical Infrastructure of the 7-point Agenda. He is currently honoured to be on a National Appointment as a member of the Presidential Advisory Council (PAC) headed by LT General T.Y. Danjuma. He is an active, licensed professional engineer in the State of Michigan, USA.
CONTACT:
Faculty of Natural & Applied Sciences,
Nasarawa State University,
PMB 1022, Keffi,
Nasarawa State.
Phone No: 08033206757
M. O. Aremu holds B.Sc (Industrial chemistry), M.Sc (Chemistry) and PhD (Industrial Chemistry) from three Nigerian Universities of Ilorin, Lagos and Ado-Ekiti, respectively specializing in food/analytical and bio- industrial chemistry. He teaches pure and applied chemistry at Nasarawa State University, keffi (NSUK). Nigeria. He has published a number of scientific papers in different national and international journals of repute and serving in editorial board as peer-reviewer for several journals. He is a member of many learned societies (IJCS) published by the department of chemistry, NSUK. He has also contributed to quite number of edited books chapters and book of conferences proceedings. Dr. ‘Leke Aremu is a life member and regional convener (Nigeria) of National Environmental Society Academy, New Delhi, India. His wealth of experience led to his appointment as deputy dean of the faculty
CONTACT
Department of chemistry,
Nasarawa State University,
PMB 1022, Keffi,
Nasarawa State.
Phone No: 08065611658
BRIEF HISTORY OF FACULTY OF NATURAL & APPLIED SCIENCE
The Faculty of Natural & Applied Sciences (FN&AS) was established in October, 2001 alongside the inception of the University. At inception, the Faculty started with four academic departments namely: Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Mathematical Sciences and Physics. In October 2002, the department of Geography and Geology & Mining came on-board. The department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology was established as the latest department in October, 2006 but department of Geography was later moved to Faculty of Social Sciences in 2008. FN&AS has expanded greatly over the past years in its attempt to meet the challenges of both teaching and research. Postgraduate work has taken off in the departments of Biological Sciences, chemistry, Geology & Mining and Mathematical Sciences. Masters degree holders have earlier been produced but recently in year 2009, one PhD holder was produced in the faculty.
LIST OF DEPARTMENTS AND THEIR PROGRAMMES
1. Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (B.Sc Biochemistry)
2. Department of Biological Sciences
i. Microbiology Unit (B.Sc Microbiology)
ii. Plants Science & Biotechnology (B.Sc Plants Science & Biotechnology )
iii. Zoology Unit (B.Sc Zoology)
3. Department of Chemistry
i. B.Sc Pure Chemistry
ii. B.Sc Industrial Chemistry
4. Department of Geology & Mining (B.Sc Geology & Mining)
5. Department of Mathematical Sciences
i. B.Sc Computer Science
ii. B.Sc Mathematics
iii. B.Sc Statistics
6. Department of Physics (B.Sc Physics)
NAME QUALIFICATION DESIGNATION
1 Prof. S. S. Farinwata B.Sc, M.Sc (Michigan, USA), PhD (Georgia, USA) Dean
2 Dr. M.O. Aremu B.Sc (Ilorin), M.Sc (Lagos), PhD (Ado-Ekiti) Deputy Dean
3 Attah Bala Odeh B.Sc Political Science Asst. Reg./Faculty Officer
4 Emmanuel A. Attah HND Principal Confidential Secretary I
5 Adamu Salisu Plato Diploma Social Development Asst. Chief Clerical Officer
6 Yaki D. Zipporah Diploma Computer Science Chief Computer Operator
7 Usman Abbas SSCE Caretaker
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