Olagoke Olabisi (AKA Lagoke Labisi) is a Nigeria-American author, editor, educator, mentor, inventor, and entrepreneur.Olagoke Olabisi: https://litcaf.com/olagoke-olabisi/ Olagoke Olabisi: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=_V21nasAAAAJ&hl=enOlagoke Olabisi: https://www.linkedin.com/in/olagoke-olabisi-38317a5/Olagoke Olabisi: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Olagoke_OlabisiOlagoke Olabisi: https://patents.justia.com/search?q=olagoke+olabisi A chemical engineer, Olagoke is the Chief Consultant and CEO of Infra-Tech Consulting LLC, an energy consulting company focused on corrosion and materials engineering.
He has 9 patents and a total of 99 publications including Fugacity and Vapor Pressure of Non-Polar Liquids at Low Temperatures, Thermoplastics Beyond the Year 2000: A Paradigm, and Handbook of Thermoplastics, 2nd Edition. His 1997 book, Handbook of Thermoplastics, was categorized by its publishers as a bestselling handbook within the niche field of engineering and plastics materials science.
He has been involved in academiaJump up to: “Olagoke Olabisi,” page 162: Who's Who in Nigerian Universities and Research Institutes, African Biographical Centre LTD, Lagos, Nigeria. 1990. and industry in the United States, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait. He mentors students and young professionals.
Early life and education Born in Osogbo, Osun State, Nigeria, Olabisi had his secondary school education at Ibadan Boys' High School Oyo State and proceeded to Government College, Ibadan, with a Western Region scholarship, where he completed his advanced high school education in 1964. He was a 1965 recipient of a scholarship award from the African Scholarship Program of American Universities (ASPAU) administered by Africa-America Institute (AAI), to study chemical engineering at Purdue University, Indiana. In 1969, he graduated with two degrees: one in chemical engineering and the other in industrial management.
He was the recipient of The John Clarence Lottes Memorial Award as the best senior student based on scholastic ability in chemical engineering Jump up to: "Olagoke Olabisi", page 107: Farmus, Cristina; and his senior project was published.
Olabisi proceeded to the University of California, Berkeley where he earned MS degree in chemical engineering in 1971 with a thesis entitled "Secondary and Primary Normal Stresses, Hole Error, and Reservoir Edge Effects in Cone-and-Plate Flow of Polymer Solutions", whose results were published in an article with the same title. He furthered his studies and earned a PhD degree in macromolecular science and engineering at Case-Western Reserve University in 1973, with a dissertation entitled Pressure-volume-temperature properties of amorphous and crystallizable polymers and oligomers (which is cited in an associated journal article) under the tutelage of Robert Simha.Robert Simha. https://history.aip.org/phn/11903007.html In 1980, he earned an MS degree in engineering management at the New Jersey Institute of Technology through a part-time self-development program.
Career Olabisi received a PhD degree just before the 1973 oil crisis which dramatically drove up the price of crude oil, petrochemicals, polymers, and plastics. An immediate plastics industry response to the crisis was focusing on material conservation. There arose the need for plastic processes to employ less than a full density of plastic material in producing lightweight automotive and other materials with structural properties matching or exceeding those of solid (full density) plastic articles. While employed at the R&D Department of Union Carbide Corporation Olabisi earned eight patents that addressed the conservation issue. The two key process patents are: Process for the molding of plastics structural web and the resulting articles Olagoke Olabisi (1976). Process for the molding of plastic structural web and the resulting articles, US Patent No. 4,136,220; https://patents.justia.com/patent/4136220 and Structural foam molding process.Olagoke Olabisi (1976). Structural foam molding process, US Patent No. 4,255,368; https://patents.justia.com/patent/4255368
The conservation activity of developing new plastic materials through the blending of two or more structurally different homopolymers, copolymers, terpolymers, and other plastics, resulted in Olabisi's publications on Polyblends,Olagoke Olabisi (1981). Polyblends. Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, Vol. 18, 3rd ed. Chapter: 18 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Herman F. Mark et al., eds; Polymer Compatibilization: Blends of Polyarylethers with Styrenic Interpolymers Olagoke Olabisi and A. G. Farnham, (1978). Polymer Compatibilization: Blends of Polyarylethers with Styrenic Interpolymers. Advances in Chemistry Series No. 176, 574, Chapter: 29, American Chemical Society Press, Washington, D. C. S. L. Cooper and G. M. Esters, eds; and others. As part of the industry-university interaction with Polytechnic Institute of New York, Olabisi was appointed adjunct professor of chemical engineering to teach a graduate-level course based on his book, Polymer-Polymer MiscibilityOlagoke Olabisi, L. M. Robeson, and M. T. Shaw (1979). Polymer-Polymer Miscibility, Academic Press, New York, N.Y. ; that provided some basis for research projects on plastics materials conservation.
Following the impact of 1973 oil crisis, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) was established (1977) and, in the same year, Nigeria joined OPEC as the 11th member country. A fully-fledged petrochemical complex was in operation in Nigeria in the early 1980s when Olabisi was appointed a professor of chemical engineering, University of Lagos. The need for teaching, research, and public service in petrochemicals, plastics, and polymer materials engineering was high in the country. Olabisi initiated courses and researchOlagoke Olabisi and O. M. Akinlade (1989). A Mixed Integer Model of the Development of Petrochemical Industry in Nigeria 19th Annual Conference of the Nigerian Society of Chemical Engineers, Port Harcourt, Nigeria, November, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336207677 for a PhDO. M. Akinlade (1990). Modeling the development of the downstream petrochemical industry in Nigeria, University of Lagos, https://unilag.edu.ng/ program in petrochemicals. Through his adjunct professorship and other linkages with the University of Akron and Case Western Reserve University, he was able to secure opportunities for some students to earn postgraduate fellowships to pursue PhDAjayi Adewale, (1993). Experimental and theoretical isothermal flow studies in modular intermeshing counter-rotating twin screw extruders, University of Akron, https://uakron.edu/polymer/alumni/dissertations-theses/Adeyinka Adedeji (1995) Morphological studies of homopolymer/block copolymer blends with exothermic interfacial mixing, Case Western Reserve University, https://etd.ohiolink.edu/apexprod/rws_olink/r/1501/10?p10_etd_subid=50724&clear=10Kolapo Adewale, (1996). Modeling of melt flow instabilities of high molecular weight polymer with narrow molecular weight distribution, University of Akron, https://uakron.edu/polymer/alumni/dissertations-theses/Domasius Nwabunma (1999) Photopolymerization-induced phase separation and morphology development in liquid crystal/polymer blends, University of Akron, https://uakron.edu/polymer/alumni/dissertations-theses/Gbolarumi Adebayo 2001 Design, validation and implementation of on-line measurement techniques to study the phase behavior of partially miscible PMMA/PaMSAN blends under quiescent and flow conditions, and application to filled-PVC in quiescent mode, University of Akron, https://uakron.edu/polymer/alumni/dissertations-theses/ in the two universities. These graduates eventually became professors, executives of government parastatals, or captains of industry.
In response to the global events, the new Lagos State University (LASU), established in 1985, decided on having a comprehensive engineering program and Olabisi was appointed the foundation dean of the faculty of engineering, technology, and environmental sciences (FETES) in 1985. Aside from establishing the traditional departments, Olabisi established a department of polymer technology, the first such department in any Nigerian university. An award of the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) Senior Traveling Fellowship enabled him to establish a fruitful linkage with the University of Adelaide resulting in LASU receiving an equipment donation worth more than a million dollars in 1987. On returning to the University of Lagos in 1987, Olabisi was appointed the Head of the Department, of Chemical Engineering.
By 1988, the devaluation of the Naira forced an economic quandary on NigeriaIhonybere, Julius (1993). Economic crisis, structural adjustment and social crisis in Nigeria, World Development Volume 21, Issue 1, Pages 141–153; and Olabisi was appointed the managing director, UNILAG Consult, University of Lagos. In response to the economic climate, he organized the National Workshop on Economic Recovery Program. He also initiated activities on Baseline Ecological Studies of the Niger Delta Basin; Soil Maps of Nigeria; and assisting the government's ongoing Delivery of Technical Aid to Equatorial Guinea. His activities at UNILAG Consult earned Olabisi a special award for dynamic, innovative, and result-oriented leadership in 1990. Olabisi was the Founder and CEO of the African Biographical Centre LTD, Publisher of Who's Who in Nigerian Universities and Research Institutes.
Before 1990, gel-casting of ceramic powders was a continuing cooperative research program.O. O. Omatete, R. A. Strehlow, and B.L. Armstrong (1990) Forming of silicon nitride by gel casting, Annual automotive technology development contractors coordination meeting, Dearborn, MI (USA); https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6261217 between Allied-Signal Aerospace Company and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). As a visiting consultant with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory during the summer of 1990, Olabisi had an Energy Systems Invention Disclosure (ESID No. 917-X: Alternative Low-Toxicity Monomeric Gel Casting Methodology for Molding Ceramic Powders for High-Heat Engine Components relating to the program, which involved the use of a variety of water-soluble monomers. The results were subsumed in the patent entitled Method for molding ceramic powders using a water-based gel casting.Mark A Janney, Ogbemi O Omatete, Method for molding ceramic powders using a water-based gel casting, US Patent No. 5,028,362; https://www.osti.gov/doepatents/biblio/867892