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 an Associate Professor at the Singapore Institute of Technology, specialising in Engineering Education Practice for Indoor Air Quality and Sustainable Building Engineering. He is an architect, a Chartered Engineer (UK), and a Chartered Construction Manager (UK), with over 200 publications spanning peer-reviewed research and peer-level public scholarship. He is a global leader and pioneering scholar in the development of communication solutions, in the form of cognitive and emotional tools, through practice-based applied educational research to strengthen engineering education practice. He plays a leading role in advancing SIT’s global leadership in strengthening human capability through applied research in engineering education practice that enhances cognitive abilities for value-oriented problem solving.

In his practice-based applied educational research, he systematically identifies real-life problems in IAQ and sustainable building engineering that people struggle to solve because of absent or inadequate mental models, which create cognitive barriers that limit the development of the cognitive abilities needed to guide value-oriented physical effort in problem-solving. He then creates communication solutions, published in the Indoor Air Cartoon Journal, that break these cognitive barriers and enhance the required cognitive abilities. Through this process, he strengthens both his own capabilities and those of others in the education institution, industry, and community to teach, learn, and solve problems in a value-oriented manner, particularly within the IAQ and sustainable building engineering domains.

The outcome of his practice-based applied educational research lies in the quantity, quality, and safety of the developed solutions to potentially transform his learners, from over 100 countries, cognitively, while the impact lies in the transformation enabled in the learners and how it is used to deliver value in their professional and personal lives. Both his teaching and research emphasise mental model development, question generation, cognitive transformation, and the cultivation of understanding to enable value-oriented problem-solving.

He holds degrees in architecture (BSc, M.Arch), building science (MSc), and engineering (PhD) from Obafemi Awolowo University (Nigeria), the National University of Singapore, and the Technical University of Denmark. He is a member of CIBSE, CIOB, and ASHRAE, and a former National Taekwondo Champion in Singapore, reflecting his commitment to excellence across disciplines.

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