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Babatunde Isaac is an Inventor, Roboticist, Researcher, Electrical
Engineer, and Software developer. He obtained a BSc. Electronic and Electrical
Engineer (First Class Honor) from Obafemi Awolowo University where as
a student; he was part of the OAU iLab team – research collaboration
between Massachusetts Institute of Technology and OAU developing remote online
laboratories that serves a good substitute to the conventional laboratories.
He developed
a system that allows students to control real laboratory equipment over the
internet. The remote labs are a great substitute for experimentation in
Nigerian university given the chronic underfunding of higher institutions of
learning, we get to see about 10 students clustered around a piece of lab
equipment. With the remote labs, this problem is eliminated as only one
equipment is needed regardless the number of students as students only get to
access the lab remotely (over the internet) but without the time and space
restriction associated with the conventional labs. Babatunde has developed
several remote and virtual laboratories currently being used by students of
OAU, contributed software