Experience

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  IOM3 (Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining)

  • Member of the Board of Directors, Technology Communities Board (IOM3)

    • Aug 2023 - Present

    The Technology Communities Board is part of the Governance structure of IOM3, with the responsibility for overseeing the operation and structure of the 22 Technical Communities and the broader community.

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  Flaney Associates LLC

  • Principal Partner

    • 1995 - Present

    • Technical consulting to polymer, chemical, advanced materials, and oil/gas companies on the engineering of manufacturing processes and products. • Technical expert witness for attorneys and insurance professionals for cases on materials engineering, chemical processes/products, and for issues related to industrial and consumer materials science & engineering.

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  The University of Southern Mississippi

  • United States
  • Higher Education
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Full Professor Emeritus

    • Jul 2023 - Present

    The title of Emeritus Full Professor is awarded by the University President on behalf of the Institutions of Higher Learning Board of Trustees, to a member of staff who has served and made an outstanding and distinguished contribution to the University and interaction with the broader community.

  • Full Professor

    • Aug 2002 - Jun 2023

    Professor Joshua Otaigbe, PhD, CSc, CEng, FIMMM has been involved in most areas of materials science and engineering, including polymer research, which blends chemical engineering sciences with materials structure and property principles to understand and improve processes for advanced materials. Joshua holds several patents and has published more than 150 scientific papers on these and related topics.• Actively involved in university and industry partnerships to solve industrially relevant problems. These problems are often at the boundaries between established disciplines or in areas combining many disciplines that may ultimately lead to discovery. • Through careful mentoring, he empowered young engineers to develop the discipline to continue learning and encouraging them to take creativity excursions outside the imagined constraints of their specialized areas, which may lead to exciting opportunities for the future. • Alongside research activities, actively promoted the teaching of materials science and engineering as the study of all classes of materials rather than their specific chemical, physical, and engineering aspect.• Influenced the design of the materials engineering curriculum at Iowa State University to include a polymer engineering option. • Courses taught include: (Undergraduate Level) – Living in a Materials World; Polymer Processing; Polymer Rheology; Structure and Mechanical Properties of Polymers and Composites; Polymer Composites Engineering. (Graduate Level) – Polymer Rheology; Advanced Polymer Composites; Polymer Processing Fundamentals.

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  U.S. Department of State

  • Washington D.C. Metro Area

  • Jefferson Science Fellow

    • Dec 2019 - Dec 2021
    • Washington D.C. Metro Area

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  Université de Lyon, Univ Lyon 1, CNRS, Ingénierie des Matériaux Polymères (IMP UMR 5223)

  • 15 Boulevard Latarjet, 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France

  • Tocqueville-Fulbright Distinguished Chair Professor in Engineering

    • Jan 2014 - Aug 2014
    • 15 Boulevard Latarjet, 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France

    This prestigious and highly competitive award aims to reinforce collaborative research between France and the United States in France by developing the latest trends in Engineering. The distinguished chair position is financed by the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research and the Franco-American Commission. https://fulbright-france.org/en/fulbright-grants-us-citizens/us-scholar-program/fulbright-tocqueville-distinguished-chair-award

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  Ingénierie des Matériaux Polymères-Université Jean Monnet

  • Faculté de Sciences et Techniques, Saint Etienne, FRANCE

  • Visiting Professor (Invited)

    • Jun 2012 - Aug 2012
    • Faculté de Sciences et Techniques, Saint Etienne, FRANCE

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  Society of Plastics Engineers

  • Board of Directors, Engineering Properties & Structure Division (EPSDIV)

    • 2001 - 2011

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  Institut national des sciences appliquées (INSA) de Lyon, France

  • Visiting Professor (invited)

    • 2009 - 2010

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  Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH-Zurich), Switzerland

  • Visiting Professor (invited)

    • 2003 - 2003

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  Iowa State University

  • Professor of Materials Science & Engineering, and of Chemical Engineering

    • 1994 - 2002

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  Corning Incorporated, Corning, NY, USA

  • Project Leader/Engineer

    • 1992 - 1994

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  University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

  • Research Associate Professor

    • 1989 - 1992