ChiChi Mbachu, M.S.

ChiChi Mbachu, M.S. is President of the Chemical Engineering Graduate Research Association (CEGRA) and is a Ph.D. Chemical Engineering student at Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville TN, USA. Her interest is built around education, water, environment and energy systems, and information communication and technology.
 
ChiChi earned her M.S. in Chemical Engineering from Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville TN, USA that earned her several prestigious scholarships including an Outstanding Chemical Engineering Masters Student for 2010. She earned her B. Tech degree in Food Science and Technology from the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Nigeria in 2001. She earned her M.S. in Food Science and Technology from the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Nigeria in 2003.
 
ChiChi has excellent research, interpersonal, teamwork, analytical, and communication skills and has managed technical, human resources, and achieved set goals within timelines and budgets. Due to her love and passion for ensuring environmental sustainability, she switched from Food Science and Technology to study Chemical Engineering. As a Chemical Engineer, her experience is in the area of renewables, energy, and environmental systems, water treatment, wastewater remediation, exhaust gas cleaning, and plasma-assisted material synthesis as well as in the mathematical modeling high oxidative technology in solving humanity’s grand challenges.
 
She was accepted and awarded a scholarship to attend the 10 week summer program of the Prestigious Singularity University Graduate Studies Program at NASA AMES Research Park Moffett Field, Silicon Valley, California to study Exponential Technologies. Her team was igniSolar which developed concentrated photovoltaic solar cells to harness the potential power of the sun to provide electricity to households and small businesses.
 
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