A Professor of Agricultural Mechanisation, Tajudeen Olayanju, would deliver the 51st Inaugural Lecture of the University on Wednesday, March 9, 2016. The lecture, which is titled, "Man, Material and Machine: The Tricycle for Agricultural Mechanisation", takes place at the FUNAAB Ceremonial Building, beginning at 2pm, while the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Olusola Oyewole, is expected to chair the occasion.
Professor Olayanju's research focus is in Agricultural Engineering with a bias towards Machine Design. The lecture is expected to examine the three factors of production; Man as a designer, Material either plant or animal that exhibits characteristics that have to be understood before an efficient and effective Machine could be built in order to mechanise agriculture. According to the Don, the raw materials available in Nigeria such as agro-allied or solid mineral have peculiar characteristics and qualities, which only local engineers could discover and adopt to meet their design needs, as he intends to make a case for local engineering capacities in the design and fabrication of equipment and machinery for the processing of local raw materials.
Professor Olayanju bagged his first, second and third degrees from Nigeria’s Premier University, University of Ibadan, where as an undergraduate, he was on the Dean's Honour List. He also bagged the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) Graduate of the Year Award in 1996 and the NSE Best Graduate Design Award in 1997. Professor Olayanju had supervised over 50 B.Eng/B.Sc undergraduate projects, over 20 M.Sc/M.Eng Dissertations and three Ph.D Theses, having contributed to over 60 publications in learned journal articles, referred proceedings, technical reports, feasibility reports and papers.
He had served the University in several capacities such as Deputy Dean of COLENG, between 2007 and 2009; Coordinator of the College Postgraduate Programmes, 2009 and 2011; Chairman, Office Space Allocation/Utilization, 2004 and 2012; Chairman, COLENG Welfare Committee, 2006 and 2010; and Chairman, College Committee on Examination Results (COCER), 2011 and 2013. Others include the Vice-Chairman, FUNAAB Ceremonials Committee, 2015 till Date; Convener, Venue Sub-Committee of FUNAAB Ceremonials Committee, 2010 till Date; Member, Timetable and Examinations Committee (TIMTEC), 2010 and 2013; Member, Senate Committee on Examination Results (SCER), 2006 till Date; Member, Teaching Farm Management Committee (TEFAMAC), 2006 and 2009 as well as College Representatives, Promotion Assessment Panel (COLVET), 2004 till Date.
Professor Olayanju belongs to several learned societies such as Member, Nigerian Society of Engineers (MNSE); Member, Nigerian Institution of Agricultural Engineers (MNIAE); Nigerian Institute for Food Science and Technology (MNIFST). He is also a Registered Engineer, Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN) and had been involved in the execution of some national and international collaborative projects with the United Nations Development Programmes (UNDP)/Small and Medium Scale Enterprise Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN); and FUNAAB/International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), among others.
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