OPINION - Akintunde Ibitayo Akinwande: A Noble Nigerian with Dignified Strides. By Nsikan Ikpe

Date: 2004-10-28

All through history, the virtue of hard work, perseverance, devotion, and focus have remained the sign- post of success and the story is walked different for this Nigerian, who has the path of distinction, particularly in he field of electronics and computer engineering.

Born in the little town of Offa in Kwara State - the South Western region of Nigeria, a Professor Akintunde Ibitayo Akinwande, has risen to fame as one of the world's reown scholars contributing enormously to the development of global electronic industry.

Akinwande, a product of Government College Ibadan (GCI), is currently the first tenured professor in the prestigious Massachussetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United State of America, who has made significant developments in the Electrical engineering and computer science.

Speaking on his background, Akinwande described his sojourn to the top as a challenge and encouraging experience. Coming from a family with generations of educated scholars, Akinwande looks at Offa his home town "as a Bethlehem in its own right, a quite town that brings fond memories that have motivated him to be assertive in the search for growth and development".

"I can recount the satisfaction in me when my second grade of elementary school in St. Marks Primary School Offa, I had to move with my family to Ibadan to continue my education and has the opportunity to attend the same school my grandfather, Pa Samuel Ajayi, attended in 1900. These memories boosted my desire to leave indelible track to enhance development", he said.

An astute academic and achiever, Akinwande, demonstrated his talent for research and development in the science world upon graduation from the Unviersity of Ife in 1978. He did his National Service at pulse Telecommunication, and subsequently enrolled and graduated from Stanford University, with a Masters in 1981 and then a PHD in electrical electronics.

He joined Honeywell Inc. USA in 1986. His research on GaAs Heterostructure FET technology for very high speed signal processing and GaAs Complementary Heterostructure FET technology for very low power circuit resulted in several world record demonstrations of GaAs technology. His contribution in this field won him the SWEATT Award, Honeywell's hightest technical achievement prize.

Akinwande is actively involved in research conferences and projects worldwide, as well as research on the organisation of the electronic industry as part of the Globalisation Project in MIT's Industrial Performance Centre. 

He is chairman of the International Vacuum Nanoeletric Conference, IVNC and also a member of the on going Detectors, Sensor, and Displays Sub-committee, IEEE-IEDM.

Professor Akinwande has served a number of international technical programme committee. He has authored well over 100 journal publication has several patents in MEMS and Display technologies.

Professor Akinwande is a devoted advocate in the transfer of global best practices, hence his service on the board of several African-American and Nigerian Organisations to boost development. Some of the organisations include the Boston Pan African Forum, Pinnacle International Club, and FATE Foundation USA. He is also involved in the Minnestone Institute of Nigeria Development (MIND) and the assciation of Nigeria Engineers in Minnesota (ANEM).

Akinwande is a recipient of the 1996 National Science Foundation (NSF) Career Awards.

Akinwande delievered the GCIOBA reunion national lecture in Nigeria, during the 75th Anniversary of the Government College Ibadan last week in Lagos.

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Solomon Edoja     Lafiagi     Yunus Oniboki     Senior Ibrahim Suleiman     Shettima Of Ilorin     Alumni Association Of The Federal Polytechnic Offa     Jumoke F. Ajao     Kemi Adeosun     Sa\'ad Alanamu     Federal Road Maintenance Agency     Bolaji Nagode     Laolu Saraki     Rasheed Jimoh     Noah Yusuf     Oke-Ero     Elerin Of Erin-Ile     Fatimoh Lawal     Garba Ayodele Wahab     Amos Bajeh     KW-GIS     March 18     Minimum Wage     Moronfoye     Allocation     Asa LGEA School     Ilorin Emirate Staff Association     Abdulrahman Onikijipa     Galland Marcias     Otuka     Afin Descendants Union Of Odo-Owa     Kayode Yusuf     Alimi Abdulrazaq     Rex Olawoye     Yusuf Amuda Abubakar     Malete     Kassim Babamale     Oyeyemi Olasumbo Florence     Bond     Ilorin South     Hamza Usman     Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa     Abdullahi Samari     Siddiq Adebayo Idowu Salawu     NAWOJ     Yusuf Abubakar     Raimi Iyanda     Jumoke Gafar     Sunday Popo-Ola     Olatunde Michaels     Popo-Igbonna     Savannah Centre For Diplomacy, Democracy And Development     Danhawa     Joshua Adeyemi Adimula     Obuh     LAK Jimoh     Yakubu Shaaba     Surajudeen Akanbi     Gabriel Fashanu     Bola Tinubu     Village Alive Development Association     Omotoso     Olaitan Buraimoh     Suleiman Mora Omar     Lanre Issa-Onilu     Mohammed Haruna     Special Agro-industrial Processing Zone     Musa Ayinla Yeketi     Salman Alada     Abdulkadri Ahmad Alaiye     TESCOM 2025     MAI Akande     Niyi Osundare     Gbadeyan Gbadura Yomi     Timothy Akangbe     AGF Abdulrazaq     Olanrewju Okanlawon Musa     Gbemi Saraki    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Ganmo Power Sub-Station     Dairo Kunle Paul     Yakub Ali-Agan     Unilorin FM     Bankole Omisore     Ahmed Shuaib Buranga     Haliru Dantoro     Lawal Jimoh     Balogun Fulani     Yahaya Seriki Gambari     Jide Ashonibare     Abdulkadir Bolakale Sakariyah     Babaloja-General     Arca Santa     Ezekiel Yissa Benjamin     Ilorin West/Asa Federal Constituency     Asa     Vishvas KOZ Tractors     Ilorin General Hospital     Tunji Moronfoye     Majlis For Sadaqah, Zakat And Waqf     Pacify Labs     Ridwan Agboola     Offa Grammer School     Www.Kwarareports.com     Omotoso Musa     Wahab Issa     Towoju     C2c@kwarastate.gov.ng     Ibrahim Oloriegbe     Matthew Babaoye     Ibraheem Abdullateef     Assayomo     Hameed Oladipupo Ali     Ibrahim Jawondo     Mashood Dauda     Shehu Raheem Adaramaja     Peter Obi     Ayodele Shittu     Adesina Simon Sodiya     Pakata Development Association     Olateju Lukman     Kazeem Gbolagade     Rebecca Bake     Titus Suberu-Ajibola     Apata Ajele Secondary School     SSA Youth     Forgo Battery     Ayinde Oki     Junior Secondary School Certificate Examinations     Yusuf Mubarak     Usman Alkali Baba     Kwara Consultative Forum     Abdulrasaq Alaro     Emmanuel Bello     Ghali Alaaya     Kwara 2015     Saidu Kawu     Omupo     Kubra Kazum     Taofik Abdulkareem     Abdulkadri Ahmad Alaiye     Bashirat Bola Bello     Kwara State Governor     Tafida Of Ilorin     Ilorin Emirate     Kamaldeen Ajibade     Emir Of Kano     Ajase-Ipo     Kayode Ibrahim     Guber Aspirant     Col. Adedipe     Ilesha-Baruba-Gwanara     Olabode Towoju     Alanamu     Ilesha-Gwanara     Michael Imoudu National Institute For Labour Studies