Moshood Olawale FADEYI

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“Education is a cyclic process of generating or acquiring information and processing, i.e., learning, that information to generate experience and gain direction on how to apply this experience to solve problems. Experience, also referred to as processed information, encompasses knowledge, understanding, and skills. The tool for learning is thinking, that is, cognitive ability, which depends on the questions generated from the mental model created.” – Dr. Moshood Olawale Fadeyi.”

Dr Moshood Olawale Fadeyi is a Design Theorist in Engineering Education Practice, specialising in cognitive governance and value-oriented diagnostic reasoning and problem-solving in indoor air quality and sustainable building engineering education and practice through research-as-practice. The central premise of his design theory is that communication solutions can be intentionally designed to train and develop cognitive governance capability by empowering mental model development, stimulating value-oriented questioning for cognitive capability enhancement, supporting sound judgement and decision-making, and ultimately guiding actions for value-oriented problem diagnosis and solving. He is an architect, a Chartered Engineer (UK), and a Chartered Construction Manager (UK), with over 250 publications spanning peer-reviewed research and peer-level public scholarship.

He holds degrees in Architecture (BSc, MArch), Building Science (MSc), and Engineering (PhD) from Obafemi Awolowo University (Nigeria), the National University of Singapore, and the Technical University of Denmark. His academic training in architecture, building science, and engineering provides the foundation for his design-oriented approach to engineering education practice. He is a member of CIBSE, CIOB, and ASHRAE.

In operationalising this design theory, he systematically diagnoses cognitive barriers that hinder value-oriented problem-solving in indoor air quality and sustainable building engineering. Through the design and publication of communication solutions in the Indoor Air Cartoon Journal, he develops cognitive and emotional tools that help learners and practitioners strengthen the cognitive capabilities required for effective judgement, decision-making, and action in real-world practice.

His research delivers sustained institution-level value to the Singapore Institute of Technology and aligns with its mission as an applied university for industry. While SIT is recognised for strong research-for-practice, his work complements this strength by advancing research-as-practice in engineering education practice. Focusing on cognitive and decision-making improvement, his research also generates durable intellectual assets for SIT through the Indoor Air Cartoon Journal, a Google Scholar-indexed living book series institutionalised through SIT Library curation and used in undergraduate, continuing education and training (CET), and postgraduate teaching. This contributes to SIT's academic distinctiveness, public scholarship profile, and capability-building mission for industry and the wider community.

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