Professor Lawrence Kunle Kehinde, a former Head, Engineering Dean and University Deputy Vice Chancellor, received a B.Sc 1st class Hons degree in Electronics (1971) at Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Nigeria, and a D.Phil, Control Engineering (1975), at the University of Sussex UK. He had his Post Doctoral Studies in Nuclear Instrumentation at University of California, Berkeley USA (1977-1978) as an IAEA Fellow. He spent most of his years as a Professor of Instrumentation Engineering at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. He was the Rector of the first private Polytechnic in Nigeria and a former World Meteorological Organization (WMO) consultant. Some years back, he concluded a 3-year Visiting Professorship term at the Texas Southern University, Houston Texas USA. He has worked in Techno-Managerial position as the Director of ICT at OAU for years. His major field is Instrumentation Designs and has designed equipment, three of which had received British patents and a Nigerian patent. He has published over 100 academic publications. He was the founding Principal Investigator of the OAU’s iLab research and he currently designs remote and virtual experiments for remote experimentation. Although retired from his first principal educational establishment, he is currently a Contract Professor of Mechatronics Engineering at the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria.
He is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Computer Professional Nigeria and a Senior Member of IEEE, ASEE and SCIREA.