Penn State Behrend
    School of Engineering
    5101 Jordan Road
    Erie, PA  16563-1701

    Office: REDC 245
    Phone: (814) 898-6521
    Fax: (814) 898-6125
    Email: ouo1@psu.edu

Oladipo Onipede Jr.
Biography

Dr. Oladipo Onipede is an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. He received the B.S. in Civil Engineering in 1983 from Columbia University, the M.S. in Civil Engineering from Tufts University in 1990, and the Ph.D. in Civil Engineering in 1995 from UCLA, Los Angeles. Dr. Onipede is a member of the Institute of Sound and Vibration (ISV), the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). Dr. Onipede was the recipient of the Chancellor’s Fellowship at UCLA from 1990-1994, the recipient of the General Electric Graduate Fellowship in 1994. And was selected to participate in the Minority Faculty Development, four-day Workshop in Arlington Virginia, sponsored by the National Science Foundation for tenure track engineering faculty from July 30-August 2, 2002.

Dr. Onipede began his career in industry in 1983 and then went back to graduate school in 1989 to finish his civil engineering education working as a research assistant, graduate student assistant, graduate student fellow and an assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Onipede started at Penn State in 2003.