Ojong Felix Enow Elected Fellow National Institute of Professional Engineers and Scientists
By Ugo Aliogo
Ojong Felix Enow, a Cameroonian electrical technician and maintenance specialist with more than eighteen years of field experience, has been elected a Fellow of the National Institute of Professional Engineers and Scientists (NIPES). The conferment, dated April 7, 2026, followed a council-level review and places Enow among the limited group of practitioners admitted to the Institute’s highest membership grade. The recognition also underscores the reach of the Nigeria-founded Institute beyond its country of origin, drawing a practitioner whose career has unfolded largely in Cameroon’s industrial and energy sector.
The grade of Fellow, designated FNIPES, is the highest distinction the Institute awards. Candidates are assessed through a peer review carried out by a Fellowship Committee made up of established Fellows drawn from universities and research bodies in several countries. The committee weighs a candidate’s record of technical achievement, research output, professional leadership, and contribution to the wider engineering and science community before a recommendation reaches the governing council. Founded in 2019 as the Nigerian Institution of Professional Engineers and Scientists and later incorporated in both Nigeria and the United States, NIPES draws its membership from academia, industry, government, and independent practice.
Enow’s election rests on a career built largely in the field rather than the lecture hall. Since 2012 he has served as a senior electrical technician with OFEWEC Enterprise, where he leads the installation and maintenance of high-tension and low-tension distribution systems and supervises crews on infrastructure projects. Earlier assignments carried him through the SONARA refinery expansion, a national petroleum depot, and a national civil engineering equipment pool, with duties that ranged from instrumentation wiring and relay maintenance to safety supervision on active industrial sites across Cameroon. He is also credited with maintenance protocols that raised equipment uptime and with training programs that moved apprentices toward independent practice.
Alongside the practical work, Enow has assembled an unusually active research profile for a field technician. Over the past three years he has co-authored more than a dozen papers that connect his trade to broader policy questions: artificial-intelligence-driven predictive maintenance for power systems, smart-grid data analytics, renewable-energy integration, and blockchain-based frameworks for tracking environmental and governance compliance in energy projects. Several appear in journals devoted to energy technology and the environment, and his work increasingly addresses how developing economies can modernize electricity infrastructure without sacrificing reliability.
His standing in scholarly publishing extends beyond authorship. Enow serves on the editorial boards of several engineering and technology journals as a section editor and board member, and he has completed dozens of manuscript reviews across those titles. Two of the journals named him their editor of the year, and two recognized the volume and quality of his peer review.
The Fellowship adds a formal credential to a career that has spanned the distance between hands-on maintenance and applied research. For NIPES, the conferment reflects a continuing pattern of admitting practitioners whose influence reaches across both industry and literature. For Enow, it marks recognition from a professional body whose Fellowship is awarded on the strength of demonstrated impact rather than granted on application.
