Editor-in-chief

Engr. A.D. Bida is a registered Mining Engineer with the Council of Mining Engineers and Geoscientists COMEG); a Fellow of Nigerian Society of Mining Engineers [FNSME] and a member of Nigerian Mining and Geosciences Society [MNMGS]; He served NSME as the National Publicity Secretary, Fellow Representative in Council and now Editor-in-chief; He obtained ND and HND in Mining Engineering from Kaduna Polytechnic (1984 & 1990); PgD Mining Engineering from Federal University of Technology, Akure in 2005; and MSc. Mining Engineering from the University of Mines and Technology (UMaT), Tarkwa, Ghana in 2010. He joined the services of Kaduna Polytechnic in 1985 and rose through the ranks to become Principal Lecturer in the Department of Mineral and Petroleum Resources Engineering. He served at various capacities in the Polytechnic viz: Students’ Project Coordinator (2003 - 2007); Examination Officer (2010 – 2014); and became Head of Department of Mineral and Petroleum Resources Engineering (2014 - 2019). He attended a Specialised Advanced Training on Mineral Analysis (instrumentation) in Germany from 1994 -1995. He is currently the Head of Geothermal and Air Pressure Systems Department at the Centre for Renewable Energy, Sustainable Technology Development (CRESTAD), Kaduna Polytechnic.