Yusuf Lanre Shuaib-Babata, PhD, PE, is a Faculty Member (Associate Professor / Reader) at the Department of Materials & Metallurgical Engineering, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria, where he has served as the Ag. Head of Department (2018-2020). Earlier, he was a Senior Faculty Member at the Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin, Nigeria (1999-2008) and the Federal Polytechnic, Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria (2008-2016) at the Department of Mechanical Engineering where he served on different academic and administrative capacities. He obtained his B. Eng. (Hons) (1997) and M. Eng. (2005) Degrees in Mechanical Engineering with bias in Materials/Metallurgical and Production Engineering at the University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria, and a PhD (2005) in Mechanical Engineering (Materials & Metallurgy Engineering) at the Federal University of Technology, Minna, Nigeria. He also obtained a Postgraduate Diploma in Education (PGDE) from the National Open University of Nigeria / National Teachers’ Institute, Kaduna, Nigeria (2015). He participated in Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) Virtual Institute Pedagogy on Educational Programmes in the year 2013.
Dr Shuaib-Babata is a Registered Engineer with the Council of Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN) and members of several professional bodies, such as Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), International Association of Engineers (IAENG), Material Science and Technology Society of Nigeria (MSN), Nigerian Metallurgical Society (NMS), International Research & Development Institute Research & Development Network, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), National Society of Black Engineers (MNSBE), and Nigerian Institution of Engineering Management (NIEM). His area of research interest includes Ceramics/Refractory, Corrosion, Materials Characterization and Mechanical Metallurgy. He has various publications in both national and international journals on potential corrosion inhibition of steels in various environments using locally available green plants, composites, ceramics, and materials characterization, among others.
