Abuja
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, Nigeria.
Early life and education
Olusegun Oyeleke Adewoye (born 1947,
Ilesa
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,
Osun State
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, Nigeria; died 2015,
Abuja
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, FCT, Nigeria) was a professor of
Materials Science and Engineering
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Comprehensive High School, Aiyetoro
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History
Just after Nigeria attained independence in 1960, the authorities began to consider the pr ...
Metallurgy
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from
University of Manchester
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, Manchester, England in 1973. In 1976, he obtained a
PhD degree
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in Metallurgy and Materials Science from
University of Cambridge
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Akure
Akure is a city in south-western Nigeria. It is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Ondo State. The city had a population of 403,000 as of the 2006 population census. Its current population is estimated at 774,000.rotary furnaces, ceramic kiln, Austempered Ductile Iron Technology and Carbo-Nitriding Strengthening of
Ferrous Alloy
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Surfaces. In 2003, he became the director general and chief executive of the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI), which supervises seven research institutes. Adewoye has over 50
publications
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to his credit. His c development efforts covered
Organic solar cell
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s and
Light-emitting diode
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s from
Polymers
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,
Nanotechnology
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and Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing Technology (
CAD/CAM
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).
Adewoye established a number of linkage projects with overseas institutions. He was a Hearst Mining
Research Fellow
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and visiting professor at
University of California, Berkeley
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, Visiting Scientist at
Princeton
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Materials Institute, Member Board of Execution, US/Africa Material Research Programme, Member
African Materials Research Society
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and Project Coordinator Nigeria/
UNESCO
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Project for the Reform and Revitalization of Nigeria's Science, Technology, Innovation System.
Research activities
Adewoye initiated, conducted and supervised research in the broad subject areas of
ceramic
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science and engineering, and
physical metallurgy
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and
corrosion engineering
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.
The results of his research have been published and utilized for industrial SME applications.
Some of his research areas included:
* Advanced Materials Research: Size Effect and Micro-Indentation in Liga Ni
MEMS
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Structures
* Strengthening Surface of
Ferrous
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Components using Cassava Waste
* The Elucidation of the Ionic and Corrosion of Construction Materials for Food Process Machines
* Development of Austempered Ductile Iron (ADI) from rotary melts
* Deformation and Fracture in
Hexagonal
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Regular hexagon
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Metallic and Ceramic Material
* Wear and
Corrosion
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Studies.
* Assessment of clays and other
aluminosilicates
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for industrial applications
Professional organisations and honors
Professor Adewoye was a Registered Engineer (
COREN
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) and member of many professional bodies including:
*
Nigerian Academy of Science
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(fellow)
*
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(fellow)
*Nigerian Society of Engineers (fellow)
*Royal Microscopical Society (fellow) Nigerian Institute of Physics * British Institute of Ceramics;
*Material Science and Technology Society of Nigeria (inaugural Fellow);
He was the recipient of several awards including:
*Western State of Nigerian Scholar (1970–1973);
*Prize Man, University of Manchester, England (1979);
*Federal Government of Nigeria Scholar (1973–1976);
*Visiting Scholar, California Institute of Mining;
*Research Fellow
University of California Berkeley
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;
*Distinguished Scientist Award, Faculty of Science
Obafemi Awolowo University
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(2004); and
*Award of Excellence Nigerian Institute of Physics (2005).
Education and academic post
Adewoye was a lecturer in Engineering Physics at
University of Ife
Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) is a federal university in Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria. The university was founded in 1961 and classes commenced in October 1962 as the University of Ife by the regional government of Western Nigeria, which w ...
from 1976 to 1984. He was Senior Lecturer, Reader and Head of the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering (MME) from 1984 to 1988. By 1989, he became a Professor of MME. He served in the following: University Senate (1982–1988); University Appointments and Promotions Committee (1984–1985); Departmental Post Graduate Committee (1983–1985); several faculty committees; University Space Planning Committee (1985–1988); and University Housing Allocation Committee (1985–1987). He was director, Central Technological Laboratory and Workshops (1992–1995); and dean, Student Affairs (1993–1995). He supervised many undergraduate and postgraduate students some of whom are now professors in universities, chief executives of government parastatals and captains of industry.
Papers
A few of Adewoye's published works were as follows:
*Structural Studies of Surface Deformation in MgO, SiC and Si3N4, 2002, with Sawyer, G. R.; Edington, J. W.; and Page, T. F.
*The effect of environment on the creep and stress rupture behaviour of Rene 95, 2004
*Metallographic Studies of Pack Cyanided Mild Steel Using Cassava Leaves, April 2008
*Anisotropic behaviour of etched hardness indentations, 2004
*Investigation of Hardness Anisotropy in Tourmaline with M. O. Adeoye
*Size Effects in the Nano and Microhardness of FCC Single Crystal Metals, Materials Science and Engineering with Z. Zong and J. Lou
*Knoop microhardness determination of the slip systems in beryl (Be3Al2(SiO3)6)
*Some aspects of the crystallography, flow and fracture of beryl (Be3Al2(SiO3)6)