Timothy Ayelagbe desires of utilizing expertise to advance well being care and make different enhancements throughout Africa.
Ayelagbe calls microelectronics his “pleasure and fervour” and says he desires to make use of the experience he’s gaining within the subject to assist others.
“My final objective,” 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 University (OAU), in Ile-Ife, Nigeria. He says he believes studying the way to make use of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) is the trail to mastering the {hardware} description languages that may let him develop reasonably priced, sustainable medical electronics.
He says he hopes to use his rising technical experience and management skills to handle the continent’s challenges in well being care, infrastructure, and pure sources administration.
Ayelagbe is keen about mentoring aspiring African engineers as nicely. Early this 12 months, he grew to become an IEEE Youth Endeavors for Social Innovation Using Sustainable Technology (YESIST) ambassador. The YESIST 12 program offers students and young 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 pupil department whereas additionally mentoring pre-university college students by means of actions encouraging service-oriented engineering observe.
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 metallic processing business, nurtured his curiosity. Whereas the standard path to upward mobility in Nigeria might need led him to changing into a physician or nurse, his mother and father supported his pursuit of expertise.
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 velocity measurement system utilizing Hall effect sensors, which calculates the velocity when its Corridor’s factor strikes in relation to a magnetic subject. Adjustments within the voltage and present operating by means of the Corridor factor can be utilized to calculate the power of the magnetic subject at completely different places or to trace modifications in its place. One widespread use of Corridor impact sensors is to observe wheel velocity in a automobile’s antilock braking system.
“I wish to apply the issues I’m studying to make Africa nice.”
Like commercialized variations, the scholars’ system was designed to face up to harsh climate and unfavorable highway situations. However theirs is for certain to have a considerably lower cost 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 indicate 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 staff is looking for partnerships with different researchers to additional develop and commercialize it. The staff 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 offers worthwhile expertise
Regardless of Ayelagbe’s tutorial 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 by means of volunteering.
He serves as a social media supervisor for the Paris-based Human Development Research Initiative (HDRI), a corporation that works to encourage younger folks to assist obtain the 17 sustainable U.N. development goals recognized collectively as Agenda 2030. He has been selling environmental and local weather motion by means of LinkedIn posts.
Ayelagbe is an lively 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 middle of his management journey. He organizes webinars, conferences, and different initiatives, together with connecting fellow pupil members with engineering professionals for mentorship.
By means of his work with HDRI and IEEE, he has the chance to community with college students, professionals, and business specialists. The connections, he hopes, might 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.”
