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), Tau Beta Pi, 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.