Samson Olakunle Ojoawo  completed his B.Tech degree programme in Civil Engineering at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) Ogbomoso in 1998. He proceeded to the University of Ibadan where he had his M.Sc degree in Civil Engineering in 2003, and he also bagged his Ph.D in Civil Engineering from the same University of Ibadan in the year 2010. In 2014, he was a 12-month Post-Doctoral Fellow at Department of Civil Engineering of the prestigious NMAM Institute of Technology Nitte, of the Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum, Karnataka State, India. He was appointed at LAUTECH Civil Engineering Department as a Graduate Assistant on 28^th December, 1998 and through the grace of God and dint of hardwork, rose through the ranks to become a Professor of Civil Engineering effective from 1^st October 2016.  He became a Registered Engineer with Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN) in 2004, and also a Registered Consultant with COREN in 2013. He is a Fellow of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (FNSE), of the Nigerian Institution of Civil Engineers (FNICE), of the Nigerian Institution of Environmental Engineers (FNIEE) and an Associate Member of American Society of Civil Engineers (AMASCE).

Prof. Ojoawo has served and still serving LAUTECH in several capacities. He was the Acting Head of Civil Engineering Department (2006-2008); a University Senate member (2006 – 2008, 2019 till date); and Departmental Postgraduate Programme Coordinator (2017). He was elected unopposed as the Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Technology for two terms (2017/2018 and 2018/2019 Sessions); he was appointed as Acting Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Technology LAUTECH between April 1 and July 31, 2019. He was an elected University Senate Representative (also unopposed) at the Appointments and Promotion Committee (A&PC) between 2021 and 2023 and the appointed Chairman, University’s Projects Monitoring and Implementation Committee (2021 till date). His present schedules of professional duties involve monitoring and supervision of University construction projects at the Ogbomoso main Campus and the Iseyin Campus being developed. As an accomplished Registered Civil Engineering Consultant with COREN, he has been involved in the engineering design, construction/supervision and monitoring of over fifty (50) public and private functional Structures within and outside Nigeria. As of last count, Professor Ojoawo has authored (and co-authored) over eighty (80) publications in form of articles in learned journals, conference proceedings, monographs, chapters in books and books. He has successfully supervised over 200 Bachelor’s degree and Postgraduate Diploma final year projects, and completed 8 Masters and Ph.D research theses supervision, while 5 others are on-going, all in Civil Engineering. His research activities centre on Water Resources and Environmental Engineering. He has studied the pollution levels and remediation measures to surface and groundwater resources, and wastewater systems extensively in Nigeria and abroad.

As touching his contributions to National growth, he was Team Leader for the U.S.A’s Global Funds NGO Committee for Joint Programme on Malaria Commodity Storage Facilities Assessment and led the Team to visit Abuja and some States of Nigeria (2010). He was an INEC LGA Collation Officer for 2011 General Election. He served as Supervisor of JAMB for Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, (2009–2013). He has equally served as an External Examiner and a Promotion Assessor in many Universities and polytechnics. Internationally, he has presented academic papers at nearly 30 International Conferences, Seminars and Workshops in continents like Africa, Asia and America. Particularly, he was a Speaker at the International Conference on Hydrology and Ground-water Expo, San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A in 2012. In 2014, he was Chief Guest and Keynote Speaker at International Conference on Modeling, Optimization and Computing at N.I. University, Kumaracoil, Tamil Nadu State, India. Again in June 2023, he served as Facilitator at Advanced Reservoir Engineering Training Workshop for Senior Staffers of Nigerian National Petroleum Commission (NNPC) held at Kigali, Rwanda.

In the Professional Society, he served as the Pioneer General Secretary of Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) Ogbomoso Branch (2015-2016), Vice Chairman (2016-2017, 2018-2019), an Ex-Officio (2022-2023), and currently serving as the Chairman of NSE Ogbomoso Branch for 2023/2025 tenure. He was elected as a Fellow of the Nigerian Society of Engineers as approved at the July 2023 NSE Council meeting. He served as Chairman, World Environment Day 2023 Planning Committee for Oyo State Chapter of the Nigerian Institution of Environmental Engineers (NIEE). On Community Service, he is an ordained Deacon of the Nigerian Baptist Convention, a member of the Rotary Club International, and a Board Member of Salako Maven Foundation, just to mention a few. Professor Ojoawo has won many awards both academic and professional. He had his Post-Doctoral Fellowship through Indian’s Technical Education Quality Improvement, TEQIP-II Scholarship Award in 2014; Best Paper Award, International Journal of Civil Engineering, International Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, IASET Global Research Forum, U.S.A, and won TETFUND-IBR 2015 Grant of Federal Government of Nigeria.

Engr. Professor Samson Olakunle Ojoawo’s hobbies include Public Oratory, traveling, and listening to music. He is happily married to his amiable wife Dr. Mrs. Olubunmi Titilayo Ojoawo, also an academic and an ordained Deaconess of the Nigerian Baptist Convention and they are blessed with three lovely children: James, Rosemary and Sharon.