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 in 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 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 and actual engineering practice.

In his practice-based research, Dr. Fadeyi systematically identifies real-life problems related to indoor air quality and sustainable building engineering that people often struggle to solve due to the absence or inadequacy of a mental model—a cognitive barrier that limits the development of cognitive abilities needed to guide value-oriented physical effort in problem-solving. He then creates communication solutions (see https://indooraircartoon.com/) designed to break these cognitive barriers and enhance the required cognitive abilities. Through this process, he strengthens both his own and others’ capabilities to teach, learn, and solve indoor air quality and sustainable building engineering problems in a value-oriented manner.

The outcome of his research lies in the transformation he has created in his learners, from over 100 countries, and the impact is how the learners use this transformation to deliver value in their professional and personal lives. Dr. Fadeyi integrates research and teaching in a reciprocal cycle: research informs his teaching, and teaching shapes his research. Both his teaching and research emphasise mental model development, question generation, cognitive transformation, and the cultivation of understanding to enable value-oriented problem-solving. As a practice-based professor, he seeks to improve how complex engineering concepts are taught, learnt, and applied through a practice-based research ecosystem of research as practice and research in practice.

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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