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 discipline 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 pupil 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 tips on how to make use of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) is the trail to mastering the {hardware} description languages that can 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 enthusiastic about mentoring aspiring African engineers as effectively. Early this 12 months, he grew to become an IEEE Youth Endeavors for Social Innovation Utilizing Sustainable Know-how (YESIST) ambassador. The YESIST 12 program offers 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 classes in his pupil department whereas additionally mentoring pre-university college students by way of actions encouraging service-oriented engineering apply.
A technologist proper out of the gate
Born in Lagos, Nigeria, Ayelagbe was captivated by how issues labored from a younger age. As a baby, 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 steel processing business, nurtured his curiosity. Whereas the traditional path to upward mobility in Nigeria may need led him to changing into a health care provider or nurse, his dad and mom 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 targeted on his undergraduate research and on gaining sensible expertise. He just lately accomplished a six-week pupil work expertise program as a part of his college’s engineering curriculum. He and fellow OAU college students developed an angular pace measurement system utilizing Corridor impact sensors, which calculates the pace when its Corridor’s factor strikes in relation to a magnetic discipline. Modifications within the voltage and present operating by way of the Corridor factor can be utilized to calculate the power of the magnetic discipline at totally different areas or to trace adjustments in its place. One frequent use of Corridor impact sensors is to watch wheel pace in a car’s antilock braking system.
“I wish 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 highway circumstances. However theirs is definite to have a considerably cheaper price level than the magnetic gadgets 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 pace and frequency of rotation,” he says.
As a result of the measurement system has potential functions in automotive and different industries, Ayelagbe’s OAU group is in search of partnerships with different researchers to additional develop and commercialize it. The group additionally hopes to publish its findings in an IEEE journal.
“Sooner or later, I hope to work with semiconductor big industries like TSMC, Nvidia, Intel, and Qualcomm,” he says.
Volunteering offers worthwhile expertise
Regardless of Ayelagbe’s educational success, he has confronted challenges find semiconductor internships, citing some firms’ geographical inaccessibility to African college students. As an alternative, he says, he has been gaining worthwhile expertise by way of volunteering.
He serves as a social media supervisor for the Paris-based Human Improvement Analysis Initiative (HDRI), a company that works to encourage younger folks to assist obtain the 17 sustainable U.N. improvement targets identified collectively as Agenda 2030. He has been selling environmental and local weather motion by way of LinkedIn posts.
Ayelagbe is an energetic IEEE volunteer and is concerned in his pupil 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 pupil 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, may also help him obtain his ambitions.
African nations “want engineers within the management sector,” he says, “and I wish to apply the issues I’m studying to make Africa nice.”
