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Honor Society® member

Emmanuel Ogunniyi

graduate research assistant at Arts-Lab, Department of Mechnaical Engineering University of South Carolina, Columbia

  • MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
  • Class of 2025
  • Columbia, South Carolina

Member since October 2022

About

A motivated, goal-driven, and hard-working Ph.D. candidate seeking opportunities in the industry to apply knowledge, fundamental understanding, and critical awareness of advanced engineering techniques to provide global solutions to engineering challenges. I desire to learn and gain hands-on experience and transferable skills from experts while collaborating with teams to help further my research and build a productive career.

Education

  • university of South Carolina, Columbia

    mechanical engineering

    2021 – 2025

  • Federal University of Technology, Akure

    mechanical engineering

    2014 – 2018

Honors and awards

  • MTN Foundation Scholarship

    Outstanding 500 science student in the Nigeria., 2015-2018

  • NNPC/TOTAL Merit Award Scholarship for Undergraduates

    Outstanding performing undergraduate for 5years, 2015-2018

  • Federal Government of Nigeria Scholarship Board Award

    Top performing student in 1/2Nigeria institution through selection exams and continuous achievement of a CGPA of 4.0/5.0 every session, 2017-2018

  • Agbami Medical/Engineering Scholarship Award (AMES)

    Award for Outstanding performing undergraduate through selection exams and with continuous achievement of CGPA of 3.5/5.0 every session, 2015-2018

  • dean's list

    Maintaining GPA of 4.5/5.0 (2014-2018)

  • African Railway Center of Excellence (ARCE)

    Scholarship for full-time Masters degree in Railway Engineering (Mechanical Options) at Addis Ababa institute of Technology, 2019

  • Pan African Scholarship

    Scholarship for full-time Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering at Pan African University Institute for Basic Sciences, technology and Innovation (PAUSTI)/Jomo Kenyatta University Of Agriculture And Technology, 2019

Goals and interests

Career goal

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING. INDUSTRY AND ACADEMIA

Outside the classroom

Reading
Playing soccer
Traveling

Experience

  • graduate research assistant

    Arts-Lab, Department of Mechnaical Engineering University of South Carolina, Columbia

    Dec 2020 – Apr 2025

  • Graduate Teaching Assistant

    Kogi State Polytechnic, Nigeria

    Feb 2019 – Jan 2020

  • science teacher

    Cornerstone Academy

    Dec 2018 – Feb 2019

  • undergraduate research assistant

    Mechanical Engineering, Federal University of Technology, Akure, Ondo State

    Nov 2017 – Oct 2018

  • Intern: Engineering design and management

    Shongai Tchnologies Limited, Ogun State, Nigeria

    May 2017 – Nov 2018

Volunteering

  • Cleaning of hall and kitchen Serving food and drinks at the homeless shelter

    Oliver Gospel Mission; a homeless shelter

    Oct 2022

  • Campaigns on health to low-income communities. Donations of health care materials to peoples

    Heal for Africa initiative

    Mar 2019 – Aug 2019

  • State facilitator for the NGO Lead campaigns to young students on quality education and skill acquisition

    Get Educated Get a Skill (GEGAS)

    Mar 2019 – Oct 2022

  • Skill trainee to orphans Served as program photographer Donations of wear and food to orphans

    The orphanage empowerment society

    Jan 2018 – Oct 2020

  • Encouraging and Mentoring students on becoming academic giants. Guiding undergraduates and graduate students on scholarship applications

    Academic Transformation Team, FUTA

    Jan 2016 – Nov 2018

Languages

  • English (US) Advanced

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