Clement Olaloye Folayan

Professor Clement Olaloye Folayan (1941 - 2018) was a Nigerian mechanical engineer, academic and author. Folayan was former Director of Nigeria's first automotive design centre, Center for Automotive Design and Development CADD. Clement Folayan was also a former Head of Department of Mechanical Engineering department, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria and Dean of the Faculty of Engineering. As director of the Centre for Automotive Design and Development CADD, Folayan led a team of engineers to build Nigeria’s first vehicle using 75% locally sourced content.
Life and career
Born in Inisa, Odo-Otin, Osun State, Nigeria to his Yoruba father and mother Joseph Oyadiji and Elizabeth Oyadoyin. In 1951, he attended Offa Grammar School in Offa, Kwara, Nigeria. In 1966 Folayan obtained a Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng) honours degree in Mechanical engineering from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria and won the German Academic Exchange Scholarship from 1967-1969. He graduated with a Second Class Upper Division in Mechanical Engineering in 1969. In 1971 he won the Nigerian Federal government scholarship and proceeded to Imperial College of Science and Technology, London where he acquired a Master of Science degree (M.Sc.) in Heat Transfer Engineering in 1972 and obtained a PhD in 1976.
Technical Publications
# Folayan, C. O. & J. H. Whitelaw: Multi-Slot Film Cooling, Letter in Heat & Mass Transfer, Vol. 1, 1974.
# Folayan, C. O. & J. H. Whitelaw: Effectiveness of Two Dimensional Film Cooling Over Curved Surfaces, ASME Paper 76 - HT - 30, 1976.
# Folayan, C. O. & J. H. Whitelaw: Effectiveness of combined Tangential and Normal Film Cooling Slots With Finite Lip, ASME Paper 76-HT-31, 1976.
# Folayan, C. O.; J. H. Whitelaw: Impigement Cooling and its Application to Combustor Design, Proceedings of the Joint Gas turbine Congress, 1977, Tokyo, Paper No. 07.
# Folayan, C. O.: Calculation of Flow Properties Downstream of Splash Film Cooling Rings of Jets Engines, Proceedings of the Nigeria Association of Mathematical Physics. Vol. 1, 1980.
# Folayan C. O. et al: Progress Report for Design & Specification of Vehicle prototype, CADD Mark 1, December 1992, CADD Publications.
# Folayan et al: Book of Design and Specification for Vehicle Prototype, CADD Mark 1, (May 1993, September 1993) CADD Publications.
# Folayan et al: Design Calculations for Vehicle Prototype, CADD Mark 1, December, 1993, CADD Publications.
# Folayan et al: Vehicle Operational Performance Tests and Components Reliability Test, December, 1993, CADD Publications.

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