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Babatunde Ayodeji Ogunnaike is a Chemical Engineer and the William L. Friend Professor of Chemical and Bimolecular Engineering at the University Of Delaware

Career

Babatunde was born on March 26th,1956 in Ijebu-Igbo, Ogun State. He attended the University of Lagos for his bachelors degree, graduating with first class honours in Chemical engineering in 1976. He commenced academic work as a lecturer at the department of Chemical engineering, University of Lagos, in 1982 and rose to the ranks of senior lecturer and associate professor of chemical engineering and continued lecturing at the University of Lagos until 1988. He furthered his studies and earned an M.Sc. degree in Statistics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Phd in Chemical engineering also from the same university in 1981. He was a Research Engineer with the Process Control group of the Shell Development Corporation in Houston, Texas from 1981 to 1982. He worked as a researcher for DuPont and was also a consultant to several companies including Gore, PPG Industries, and Corning. He joined the faculty of the University of Delaware in 2002. He became the Dean of the College of Engineering at the University.and became Dean of the College of Engineering in July 2011. He has been a visiting professor at African University of Science and Technology, Abuja. He is also Associate Editor of the Journal Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research. Due to his outstanding contribution to academics, his numerous awards include the American Institute of Chemical Engineers 1998 CAST Computing Practice Award, the 2004 University of Delaware’s College of Engineering Excellence in Teaching award, the 2007 ISA Eckman Award, and the 2008 AACC Control Engineering Practice award. He is a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Engineering, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, American Statistical Association, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American National Academy of Engineering Prof. Ogunnaike has a US Patent on Predictive Regulatory Controller.

Publications

Ogunnaike is the author and editor of several books, papers and book chapters, used to educate engineers in instrumentation, systems and control at many universities. Noted publications include:

• Ogunnaike, Babatunde; Harmon Ray, W. Process Dynamics, Modeling, and Control. Oxford university press. ISBN 978-0-19-509119-9.
• Babatunde A. Ogunnaike (2010). "random Phenomena:Fundamentals of Probability and Statistics for Engineers". Wiley Online Library. 56 (7). American Institute of Chemical Engineers. doi:10.1002/aic.12294. ISBN 978-14200-449-73.

References

1. "babatunde Ogunnaike". CRC Press.
2. Roberts, Karen.B. "New engineering dean". Udaily. University of Delaware. Retrieved October 22, 2013.
3. "Black Scholar Babatunde A. Ogunnaike Is New Dean of Engineering at the University of Delaware". Good Black news. Retrieved October 23, 2013.
4. "Visiting faculty".
5. "Babatunde Ogunnaike elected to the National Academy of Engineering". The Journal of Blacks in Higher education.

External links

• University of Delaware College of Engineering

• Nigerian engineers
• Nigerian scientists
• American engineers
• African-American engineers
• University of Delaware faculty
• University of Wisconsin-Madison alumni
• University of Lagos alumni
• University of Lagos faculty
• Nigerian emigrants to the United States
• American people of Nigerian descent
• Yoruba scientists
• 1956 births
• Living people
• People from Ogun State