PROF MUHAMMED OLAWALE HAKEEM AMUDA

TITLE(PROF/DR): PROFESSOR

POSITION: PROFESSOR

EDUCATION/TRAINING

 

INSTITUTION AND LOCATION

DEGREE

MM/YY

FIELD OF STUDY

OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY, ILE-IFE, NIGERIA

B.SC.

08/95

METALLURGICAL AND MATERIALS ENGINEERING

UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS, LAGOS, NIGERIA

M.SC.

12/98

M.SC. MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA

Ph.D.

10/11

MATERIALS ENGINEERING

INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA

PDF

11/11

MATERIALS ENGINEERING

UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA

PDF

02/15

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
           
  1. PERSONAL STATEMENT

I am a faculty member at the Full Professorship cadre with over 20 years of significant experience in industrial, research, academic and outreach programmes. My research interests span materials development and processing for emerging technologies such as low-energy fusion welding processes and surface modification of metallic materials for improved corrosion and thermal efficiency. In specifics, these research portfolios cover materials processing and fabrication via the use of TIG torch melting and laser material processing for improving material behaviour in service. In the thick of the COVID-19 pandemic, I led other researchers in the University of Lagos to develop a patented affordable rapidly deployable Ambubag medical ventilator as our response to the containment of the scourge. I have successfully supervised close to 85 undergraduate students, about 22 master’s students, and 2 Ph.D. candidates with ongoing supervision of 3 Ph.D. candidates. I have collaborated with colleagues in several multidisciplinary research undertakings resulting in a net grant portfolio of over a billion Naira cutting across materials development, equipment grant and medical device, improving water access and development of innovation ecosystem in Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya, Rwanda, and Malaysia. I have extensive experience and capacity in the conceptualization, design and implementation of institutional programmes for building capacities to deliver transformational impact. I have published over 95 publications in various journals, conferences, technical reports, book chapters, monographs and dissertations. I have also reviewed for several journals including Journal of Materials Processing Technology (Elsevier-ISI Indexed), Advances in Materials Processing and Technologies (Taylor & Francis); and examined over 16 doctoral theses across the world. I am a registered Engineer with the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN) and holds membership of several other professional bodies both in Nigeria and outside Nigeria.

  1. POSITIONS, SCIENTIFIC APPOINTMENT AND HONOUR
  2. Director, Adetokunbo Babatunde Sofoluwe-Centre for Information Technology and Systems (2023-Date).
  3. Head, Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering (August 2022-April 2023)
  • Deputy Director (Innovation), Research and Innovation Office, University of Lagos, Nigeria (April 2017-2021).
  1. Knowledge Creation Pillar, UNILAG African Engineering (AFRETEC) Network
  2. UNILAG Coordinator, ARUA-Guilds Cluster of Research Excellence Programme, Engineering Track
  3. Convener, Materials Development and Processing Research Group (MADEPREG)
  • Lead, UNILAG Circular Economy Research Group
  • Coordinator and Chairman Postgraduate Programmes, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering 2012-2017
  1. Chairman, Faculty of Engineering Committee on the Accreditation of Aerospace Engineering programme, Lagos State University, Engineering Campus, Epe, 2021.
  2. Chairman, Faculty of Engineering Ad-Hoc Committee on Industrial Partnership (Achievement: conceptualized a national Centre of Excellence in Automation, Control and Instrumentation, Lagos State University, Engineering Campus, Epe, 2021-2022.
  3. Inducted into Lagos State Ministry of Science and Technology’s Wall of Fame in 2021.
  • Lead, UNILAG AFD-ICT Intervention Grant
  • Lead, UNILAG Team, Investment in Digital and Creative Enterprise Project
  • Chairman, Standard Organisation of Nigeria’s Technical Committee on Welding Technology, 2024-Date
  1. Most Recent Publications

 

  1. M.A. Ogundero, T.A. Fashanu, F.O. Agunbiade, K. Orolu, A.A. Yinusa, U.A. Daudu and M.O.H. Amuda (2025). A soft sensor-based inference engine for water quality assessment and prediction. Air, Soil and Water Research, https://doi.org/ 10.1177/11786221251315618.
  2. W. Saka, T.F. Lawal, and M.O.H. Amuda (2025). Influences of filler metals on microstructure and mechanical characteristics of GAT weld carbon steel/ austenitic stainless steel dissimilar metal joint, Key Engineering Materials Engineering Materials (in Press).
  • F. Lawal, W.O. Zubair, K.A. Adedeji, N.A. Raji, and M.O.H. Amuda (2025). Status and trends in fusion-based surface modification techniques for self-lubricating high temperature properties in austenitic stainless steel using refractories. Advanced Engineering Forum (in press).
  1. O.H. Amuda (2024). The Vicegerent: The evolution of a contemporary Alagbede, 27th Inaugural Lecture of the University of Lagos, 2023-2024 Academic Session, Pp 176. UNILAG Press.
  2. M. Hassan, F.T. Lawal, V.D. Obasa, K.A. Adedeji, N.A. Raji, E.O. Oyetunji, and M.O.H. Amuda (2024). Mechanical and surface properties of epoxy and polyester fibre composite reinforced with surface treated raffia fibre. NSE Technical Transactions, 55(2), 102-123.
  1. Collaborators/Networks (International Inclusive)
  2. Thomas Mbuya, University of Nairobi on strengthening water access and quality
  3. Ghali Umar, University of Rwanda on strengthening water access and quality
  • Esther Akinlabi, formerly of University of Johannesburg (now Northumbria University, UK)
  1. Nosipho Moloto, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa, on ARUA collaborative proposal for Materials, Energy and Nanotechnology (MEN)
  2. Khadijah AbdulWahab and other members of the University of Lagos NRF Research Team on Spodumene ore for cathode active materials