Babatunde Ayodeji Ogunnaike (March 26, 1956 – February 20, 2022) was an American
chemical engineer
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of Nigerian descent and the William L. Friend Professor of
Chemical
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and
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at the
University of Delaware
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(UD).
He was the former Dean of UD's College of Engineering.
He died on February 20, 2022. He had waged a long battle with cancer.
Early life
Ogunnaike was born on March 26, 1956 in
Ijebu Igbo
Ijebu Igbo (Yoruba: Ìjẹ̀bú-Igbó) is a town in Ogun State, Nigeria. It is approximately a 15-minute drive north of Ijebu Ode.
Ijebu Igbo, also written as Ijebu-Igbo, is the headquarters of Ijebu North Local Government Authority of Ogun State ...
,
Ogun State
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, Nigeria.
Education and career
Ogunnaike attended the
University of Lagos
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for his bachelor's degree, graduating with
First Class Honours
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in
chemical engineering
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in 1976.
Shortly after completing his undergraduate degree, Ogunnaike submitted lyrics for a competition to create a new national anthem for Nigeria. His entry was combined with those of four others to form the current
national anthem of Nigeria in 1978.
He furthered his studies and earned an
M.Sc.
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degree in
statistics
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from the
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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and a
PhD in chemical engineering also from the same university in 1981.
He commenced academic work as a lecturer at the department of chemical engineering,
University of Lagos
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, in 1982 and became senior lecturer and successively, associate professor of chemical engineering. He continued lecturing at the University of Lagos until 1988.
Ogunnaike 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
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and was also a consultant to several companies including
Gore
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,
PPG Industries
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, and
Corning Inc.
He joined the faculty of the
University of Delaware
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in 2002 and was appointed to the William L. Friend Professorship of
Chemical Engineering
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in 2008.
His title became the William L. Friend Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering when the name of the department was changed in January 2012.
He led the Ogunnaike Research Group.
He has also been a visiting professor at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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and the
African University of Science and Technology, Abuja.
Ogunnaike acted as interim Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Delaware beginning in July 2011, and was named Dean of the College of Engineering effective July 1, 2013.
He retired as Dean on October 1, 2018 but remained on the faculty.
He played a key role in creating a new report that would guide the future of chemical engineering, jointly put together by the national academies of sciences, engineering, and medicine.
Research
Ogunnaike is the author and editor of several books, including ''Random phenomena : fundamentals of probability and statistics for engineers'' (2009) and ''Process dynamics, modeling and control'' (1994). His books, papers and book chapters are used to educate engineers in instrumentation, systems and control at many universities.
He was associate editor of the
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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’ ''IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology'' and the
American Chemical Society
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’s ''Industrial & Engineering Chemistry''.
His research focuses on modeling and control of industrial processes; the application of process analytical technology for control of pharmaceutical processes; identification and control of nonlinear systems; the interaction of process design and process operability; applied statistics; biological control systems; and systems biology with application to neuronal responses and cancer.
Selected publications
*Radhakrishnan, D.; Robinson, A.S.; Ogunnaike, B.A. (2018)
''Controlling the Glycosylation Profile in mAbs Using Time-Dependent Media Supplementation''. ''Antibodies'', ''7'', 1.
*Birtwistle, M.R., Rauch, J., Kiyatkin, A. ''et al.'' (2012).
''Emergence of bimodal cell population responses from the interplay between analog single-cell signaling and protein expression noise.'' ''BMC Syst Biol'' 6, 109.
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Patents
* US Patent on Predictive Regulatory Controller.
Honors and fellowships
* 2021 ''Medal of Distinction'': University of Delaware, December 7, 2021 (UD's highest non-academic award)
* 2019 ''David Ollis Lecture'': North Carolina State University, December 2, 2019
* 2019 ''Johannsen-Crosby Lectures'': Michigan State University, September 12, 2019
* 2019 ''Inaugural Costel D. Denson Lecture'': Lehigh University,March 20, 2019
* 2018 ''Warren K. Lewis Award'', American Institute of Chemical Engineers
* 2018 ''Roger Sargent Lecture'': Imperial College, London, December 6, 2018
* 2018 ''Sheldon Weinbaum Distinguished Lecture'': Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, October 11, 2018
* 2017 Fellow, International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)
* 2017 Honorary Professor, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
* 2017 ''Ralph Peck Lecture'', Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, April 14, 2017
* 2017 ''Richard S. H. Mah Lecture'', Northwestern University, September 20, 2017
* 2016 Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
*2014 Fellow of the
National Academy of Inventors
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* 2012 Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Engineering
* 2012 Fellow of the American
National Academy of Engineering
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* 2009 Fellow of
American Institute of Chemical Engineers
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* 2008 AACC Control Engineering Practice award
* 2007 ISA Eckman Award
* 2004 University of Delaware's College of Engineering Excellence in Teaching award
* 1998
American Institute of Chemical Engineers
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CAST Computing Practice Award
* Member of the
American Statistical Association
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* Member of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Death
Ogunnaike died at the age of 65 on February 20, 2022.
References
External links
University of Delaware College of Engineering
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1956 births
2022 deaths
20th-century Nigerian engineers
20th-century American engineers
21st-century American engineers
20th-century American inventors
20th-century Nigerian inventors
American chemical engineers
Fellows of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Nigerian emigrants to the United States
People from Ogun State
University of Delaware faculty
University of Lagos alumni
University of Lagos faculty
University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Engineering alumni