Moses Oludayo Tade is a John Curtin Distinguished Professor (JDCP) in the Discipline of Chemical Engineering at Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia. He is an academic leader, researcher, manager, mentor, etc. in the engineering profession. He completed both his PhD (September 1986) and MEng (December 1982) in Chemical Engineering at Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada. He earned his Bachelor of Science with First Class Honours from the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University) in June 1980. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers (FIChemE); a Chartered Chemical Engineer (CEng) with the Engineering Council (UK); and an Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia (HonFIEAust, CPEng). He is well-known and recognized for his strong leadership in engineering in the Australian Chemical Industry and Western Australia’s resource industry. He was named in the 2008 list of Australia’s TOP 100 Most Influential Engineers by Engineers Australia. In addition to his extensive management, leadership and administrative duties over the past 25 years, he is a Highly Cited Researcher (2019 and 2020) in the Cross Discipline Area of Process Systems Engineering (PSE) with a career h-index of 76 and over 20,900 citations according to Google Scholar on 14 December 2020. He is a dual citizen of both Nigeria and Australia. He was born on 12 May, 1958 in Modakeke, Nigeria and lives in Perth, Western Australia.
Professor Tade’s Personal Achievements in Engineering
He is a world renowned leading researcher in PSE in Australia and is well respected for his contributions to process modelling, optimization and control and especially at closing the gap between theory and industrial practice in PSE. His work in both industry and academia has had significant impacts. As an educator, he has provided significant leadership for training the next generation of engineers and in STEM education in schools. He has also contributed to the national engineering agenda through his extensive participation and leadership of IChemE activities both nationally and worldwide; and as President of the Australian Council of Engineering Deans (ACED) in 2015 and 2016.
The impacts of his achievements can be categorised as: 1) Contributions to Research; 2) Ambassador for the Engineering Profession; 3) Contributions to Engineering/STEM Education; and 4) Contributions to Engineering Leadership. They specifically align with the Key Themes: a) “Maximise the contribution of technology to innovation, investment and productivity” (for example, “optimise translation to practice of publicly funded research”); b) “Australia’s transition to economic low environmental impact energy supply and use” (specifically to “identify and support new measures to improve energy efficiency”); c) “Efficient and sustainable natural resource management based on good science” (that is, to “increase discovery rates, increase efficiency and decrease the environmental impact of the mineral sector”); and d) “Improve quality and reach of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education at all levels”. Some of his work have been patented and he has received several awards for his contributions and secured several research grants from various sources for his work. All his achievements can be adapted to the Nigerian situation.