Timothy Ayelagbe goals of utilizing know-how to advance well being care and make different enhancements throughout Africa.
Ayelagbe calls microelectronics his “pleasure and keenness” and says he needs to make use of the experience he’s gaining within the area to assist others.
“My final purpose,” he says, “is to uplift my fellow Africans.”
Timothy Ayelagbe
Volunteer Roles:
IEEE Youth Endeavors for Social Innovation Utilizing Sustainable Know-how ambassador, 2025 vice chairman of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society scholar department chapter
College:
Obafemi Awolowo College in Ile-Ife, Nigeria
Main:
Electronics and electrical engineering
Minor:
Microelectronics
He’s pursuing an electronics and electrical engineering diploma, specializing in microelectronics, at Obafemi Awolowo College (OAU), in Ile-Ife, Nigeria. He says he believes studying easy methods to make use of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) is the trail to mastering the {hardware} description languages that may let him develop inexpensive, sustainable medical electronics.
He says he hopes to use his rising technical experience and management skills to deal with the continent’s challenges in well being care, infrastructure, and pure sources administration.
Ayelagbe is obsessed with mentoring aspiring African engineers as nicely. Early this yr, he grew to become an IEEE Youth Endeavors for Social Innovation Utilizing Sustainable Know-how (YESIST) ambassador. The YESIST 12 program supplies college students and younger professionals with a platform to showcase concepts for addressing humanitarian and social points affecting their communities.
As an envoy, Ayelagbe made on-line webinar periods in his scholar department whereas additionally mentoring pre-university college students via actions encouraging service-oriented engineering follow.
A technologist proper out of the gate
Born in Lagos, Nigeria, Ayelagbe was captivated by how issues labored from a younger age. As a toddler, he would dismantle and reassemble his toys to find out how they labored.
His mom, a dealer, and his father, then a high quality management officer within the metallic processing business, nurtured his curiosity. Whereas the traditional path to upward mobility in Nigeria may need led him to turning into a physician or nurse, his mother and father supported his pursuit of know-how.
Because it seems, he’s poised to advance the state of well being care in Nigeria and across the globe.
For now, he’s centered on his undergraduate research and on gaining sensible expertise. He not too long ago accomplished a six-week scholar work expertise program as a part of his college’s engineering curriculum. He and fellow OAU college students developed an angular velocity measurement system utilizing Corridor impact sensors, which calculates the velocity when its Corridor’s component strikes in relation to a magnetic area. Adjustments within the voltage and present working via the Corridor component can be utilized to calculate the power of the magnetic area at totally different areas or to trace adjustments in its place. One frequent use of Corridor impact sensors is to observe wheel velocity in a automobile’s antilock braking system.
“I need to apply the issues I’m studying to make Africa nice.”
Like commercialized variations, the scholars’ gadget was designed to face up to harsh climate and unfavorable street situations. However theirs is for certain to have a considerably lower cost level than the magnetic units it emulates, whereas producing extra correct readings than conventional mechanical variations, Ayelagbe says.
“We did some knowledge processing and manipulation through Arduino programming utilizing an ATmega microcontroller and a liquid crystal show to point out the angular velocity and frequency of rotation,” he says.
As a result of the measurement system has potential functions in automotive and different industries, Ayelagbe’s OAU workforce is looking for partnerships with different researchers to additional develop and commercialize it. The workforce additionally hopes to publish its findings in an IEEE journal.
“Sooner or later, I hope to work with semiconductor large industries like TSMC, Nvidia, Intel, and Qualcomm,” he says.
Volunteering supplies worthwhile expertise
Regardless of Ayelagbe’s educational success, he has confronted challenges to find semiconductor internships, citing some corporations’ geographical inaccessibility to African college students. As a substitute, he says, he has been gaining worthwhile expertise via volunteering.
He serves as a social media supervisor for the Paris-based Human Growth Analysis Initiative (HDRI), a company that works to encourage younger individuals to assist obtain the 17 sustainable U.N. growth objectives recognized collectively as Agenda 2030. He has been selling environmental and local weather motion via LinkedIn posts.
Ayelagbe is an energetic IEEE volunteer and is concerned in his scholar department. He’s the incoming vice chairman of the department’s IEEE Robotics and Automation Society chapter and says he would like to tackle extra roles in the midst of his management journey. He organizes webinars, conferences, and different initiatives, together with connecting fellow scholar members with engineering professionals for mentorship.
By his work with HDRI and IEEE, he has the chance to community with college students, professionals, and business specialists. The connections, he hopes, can assist him obtain his ambitions.
African nations “want engineers within the management sector,” he says, “and I need to apply the issues I’m studying to make Africa nice.”
