Moshood Olawale FADEYI

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“Education is the act or process of generating or acquiring information and processing that information—i.e., learning—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.” – Dr. Moshood Olawale Fadeyi.”

Dr. Moshood Olawale Fadeyi is an Associate Professor at the Singapore Institute of Technology, specialising in Engineering Education Practice (Indoor Air Quality and Sustainable Building focused). He is an architect, a Chartered Engineer (UK), and a Chartered Construction Manager (UK), with over 200 publications spanning peer-reviewed research and public scholarship. He is a pioneering scholar in the development of communication solutions, in the form of cognitive and emotional tools, through practice-based research and scholarly activities to strengthen both engineering education (including applied learning approaches) and actual engineering practice.

As a practice-based professor whose work is grounded in the principles of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), he seeks to improve how complex engineering concepts are taught, learnt, and applied. His teaching and research emphasise mental model development, question generation, cognitive transformation, and the cultivation of understanding to enable value-oriented problem-solving. His overarching aim is to enhance both how future engineers are trained to solve real-life problems and how practising engineers solve real-life problems.

Dr. Fadeyi integrates research and teaching in a reciprocal cycle: research informs his teaching, and teaching shapes his research. His work develops interdisciplinary communication solutions that make complex engineering topics accessible to diverse learners, inviting active engagement through emotional connection, attention, curiosity, and thinking (See https://indooraircartoon.com/). The Indoor Air Cartoon Journal he created is not a simplification of IAQ concepts. It is a cognitive and emotional intervention designed to bridge the knowing–doing gap in engineering education and practice by providing mental models, curiosity triggers, and context-rich stories that engage learners, educators, and practitioners in treating knowledge as practice. His outputs reflect an applied SoTL, benefiting academia, industry, and the wider community in over 100 countries.

He holds a multifaceted academic background in architecture (BSc, M.Arch), building science (MSc), and engineering (PhD), with degrees from Obafemi Awolowo University (Nigeria), the National University of Singapore, and the Technical University of Denmark. He is a member of the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (UK), the Chartered Institute of Building (UK), and the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers. He is also a former National Taekwondo Champion in Singapore, reflecting his commitment to excellence across disciplines.

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