Prof. David O. Olukanni,
MNSE; MIAEH; COREN Reg; M.ASCE; Ph.D.
College
Department
Research Interests
- Solid Waste Management (systems that consider Collection, Transfer, Treatment, Processing, Reuse, Recycle and Disposal in relation to cost Efficiency and sustainability for developing nations)
- Industrial and Hazardous Waste Management
- Water Supply in Rural and Urban Communities
- Hydraulics and Hydrological Studies
- Modeling and Simulation of Wastewater Treatment System
- WASH in Schools Study
- Rural/Urban Sanitation and Hygiene Study
- Waste to Energy and Wealth (Renewable Energy)
(Water Resources and Environmental Engineering).
Awards & Honours
- 2009/2010 Fulbright Scholarship as a Research Scholar to the United States of America
- $2500 Research Grant from the Institute of International Education, NY, U.S.A.
- N450, 500 Seed Research grant from CUCERD, Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria.
- Travel Scholarship to University of Oklahoma International Water Conference in the United States.
- Travel Grants to University of North Carolina Chapel Hills Water and Health Conference
- High Impact Journal publication award (Dr. David Oyedepo Foundation Special Award for publication in High Impact Journals).
- Exceptional Lecturer Award: Presented by the College of Science and Technology, Covenant University.
- Professional Development Course Award on Solid Waste Management, Widener University, Philadelphia, USA.
- Travel Scholarship to OU Water Conference, University of Oklahoma, Norman, United States.
- Travel Grant to INTED 2014 International Conference, Valencia, Spain (March, 2014).
- Travel Support to Urban Environmental Pollution Conference, Toronto, Canada (June, 2014).
- Travel Grant to EDULEARN 2014 International Conference, Barcelona, Spain (July, 2014).
- Pre-Proposal Hosting of Postdoc Research Fellow in Civil Engineering from the University of Tuebingen, Germany.
- Conference Support to EDULEARN 2015 Inter’nl. Conference, Barcelona, Spain (July, 2015).
- Award to the sum of 130, 900 EUR (One Hundred and Thirty Thousand, Nine Hundred Euro) to host a Postdoc Fellowship for African Researchers in Engineering Sciences from University of Tuebingen by Volkswagen Stiftung, Germany.
- Visiting Research Scholar Position, Department of Civil Construction and Environmental Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. May-July 2016.
- Travel Grant to 2017 OU Water Conference, University of Oklahoma, Norman, United States.
- Travel Support to International Conference on Solid Waste Management and Technology (ICWMT) Beijing, China.
- EESC-A Scholar Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
- Excellent Paper Award by the Steering Committee of the 13th International Conference on Waste Management and Technology. Basel and Stockholm Convention Regional Centre for Asia and the Pacific, 21st – 24th March, 2018, Beijing, China.
- Franklin Membership Award ID #IC1287
- Honorary Rosalind Member of London Journals Press ID #LD07639
- EU grant under the Intra-Africa Academic Mobility Scheme. The proposal of our Team titled; “Africa Sustainable Infrastructure Mobility” (ASIM) was one of the seven accepted for co-funding among the 142 eligible applications.
Teaching Areas
- Hydraulics and Hydrology CEC 201 NDII
- Soil Science and Irrigation CEC 208 NDII
- Introduction to Fluid Mechanics CEC 107 NDI
- Building, Bricklaying and Concreting PBB 011 Pre-ND
- Building, Bricklaying and Concreting PBB 012 Pre-ND
- Total Man Concept (University Wide) TMC 111&121 100L
- Total Man Concept (University Wide) TMC 211&221 200L
- Total Man Concept (University Wide) TMC 311&321 300L
- Water supply and Sanitary Engineering CEC 202 NDII
- Total Man Concept (University Wide) TMC 411&421 400L
- Introduction to Fluid Mechanics GEC 223 200L
- Strength of Materials GEC 224 200L
- Fluid Mechanics II CVE 312 300L
- Strength of Materials II CVE 318 300L
- Water and Wastewater Engineering CVE 410 400L
- Hydraulics Engineering CVE 414 400L
- Engineering Economics CVE 418 400L
- Surface and Groundwater Hydrology CVE 419 400L
- Civil Engineering Seminar CVE 513 500L
- Water Resources Engineering CVE 510 500L
- Environmental Engineering CVE 520 500L
- Design of Hydraulic Structures CVE 525 500L
- Fluid Mechanics CVD 616 PGD Class
- Unified Research Method CUR 711 PGD Class
- Advanced Hydrology CVD 626 PGD Class
- Hydraulic Engineering CVD 712 PGD Class
- Technical Report Writing CVD 623 Master & PGD Classes
- Advance Hydraulics CVW 811 Masters Class
- Solid Waste Engineering CVW 821 Masters Class
- Simulation and Modeling CVS 815 Masters Class
- Unified Research Method CUR 811 Masters Class
- Advanced Hydraulics Engineering CVW 911 Ph.D Class
- Unified Research Methodology CUR 911 Ph.D Class
- Environmental Impact Assessment CVW 825 Masters Class
- Hazardous Waste Management CVW 826 Masters Class
- Unified Research Method CUR 811 Masters Class
- Advanced Hydraulics Engineering CVW 911 Ph.D Class
- Unified Research Methodology CUR 911 Ph.D Class
Current Postgraduate Supervision
Selected Publications (31)
1. Fitting Probability Distribution Functions to Reservoir Inflow at Hydropower Dams in Nigeria
[ Download 174.30 kB ]2. Water Hyacinth Based Wastewater Treatment System and its Derivable Bye-Products.
[ Download 163.54 kB ]4. Influence of reactor design on the treatment performance of waste stabilization pond.
[ Download 228.12 kB ]5. Optimization of waste stabilization pond design for developing Nations using CFD model.
[ Download 175.51 kB ]9. Vehicular Pollution of Soil in Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria
[ Download 175.13 kB ]15. Heavy Metal Concentrations in Road Side Soils from Selected Locations in the Lagos Metropolis
[ Download 173.84 kB ]16. Assessment of Vehicular Pollution of Road Side Soils in Ota Metropolis, Ogun State, Nigeria.
[ Download 161.62 kB ]18. Performance Evaluation of a Constructed Wetland System in Nigeria
[ Download 163.19 kB ]19. Assessment of WASH Program in Public Secondary Schools in South-Western Nigeria
[ Download 174.67 kB ]20. Interaction between Suspended and Settled Solid Particles in Cassava Wastewater.
[ Download 162.91 kB ]26. Efficiency Assessment of a Constructed Wetland Using Eichhornia Crassipes for Wastewater Treatment.
[ Download 102.36 kB ]28. Vehicular Pollution of Soils in Southwest Nigeria: A Case Study
[ Download 189.97 kB ]Collaboration/Linkages
- The Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA.
- The Water Center at the University of Oklahoma, Water Technology for Emerging Regions, School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science, University of Oklahoma, Norman, USA.
- Department of Civil Engineering, Water Resources and Environmental Engineering Unit, University of Ilorin, Nigeria.
- Department of Agricultural Engineering, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.
- Department of Civil Engineering, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria.
- Department of Civil Engineering | Hydro-environmental Research Centre, School of Engineering, Cardiff University.
- Key Laboratory of Yangtze River Water Environment, Ministry of Education, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.
- Dept of Geosciences, Indiana University- Purdue University, USA.
- Institute for Sanitary Engineering, Water Quality and Solid Waste Management, University of Stuttgart, Germany.
- The Center for Global Safe WASH, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
- Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Disaster Management Istanbul Technical University Turkey.
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada.
- Centre for Sustainable Development and Resource Efficiency Management. Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.
- CSIR-Central Glass & Ceramics Research Institute (CSIR), Kolkata, India.
- School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
- School of Built Environment, Engineering and Computing Leeds Beckett University, UK
- Center for Applied Research and Innovation in the Built Environment, U of J, South Africa.
Conferences Attended
- New York Fulbright Enrichment Seminar. Using global solution to solve local problems, New York, United States of America, November 2009.
- Comsol Multiphysics Modelling tool Workshop and Conference in Raleigh, USA (2010).
- 2010 Water Resources and Environmental Engineering Symposium March 5th, 2010. North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA.
- Fulbright Alumni Association of Nigeria (FAAN) 10th Annual Conference, University of Ibadan, 2011. 12th -15th September, 2011.
- Water and Health Conference; where science meets policy, 3rd – 7th October, 2011 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hills, USA.
- University of Oklahoma International Water conference, 24th- 26th October, 2011 Norman, Oklahoma, USA.
- Fulbright Alumni Association of Nigeria (FAAN) 11th Annual Conference, Covenant University, Canaan Land, Ota, Nigeria. 10th-13th September, 2012.
- 2012 Water and Health Conference: Science, Policy and Innovation, 29th October – 2nd November, 2012 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hills, USA.
- International Conference on Clean Technology and Contemporary Engineering Management, Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria. 12th-15th November, 2012.
- International Conference on Solid Waste Management (ICSW), Widener University, Chester, Philadelphia, USA, 10th -13th March, 2013.
- OU International Water conference, 24th- 26th September, 2013 Norman, Oklahoma, USA.
- International Business Information Management Association (IBIMA) 22nd IBIMA Conference 13 – 14 November 2013, Rome, Italy.
- Medical Entrepreneurship Conference- Business of Medicine Conference: Challenges and opportunities of Medical Entrepreneurship held at the African Leadership Development Center, Covenant University 16th December, 2013.
- 1st Covenant University International Conference on African Development Issues: Rising Opportunity for Investors in Africa and the Prospect of an Economic Miracle. African Leadership Development Center, Covenant University, Nigeria .5th-6th May, 2014.
- International Conference on Technology, Education and Development (INTED 2014) 10th -12th March, 2014. Valencia, Spain.
- Urban Environmental Pollution 2014 international conference, Sheraton Centre, Toronto, Canada. 12th -15th June, 2014
- 6th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies Barcelona, Spain, 7th - 9th of July 2014.
- 7th International Conference on Education, Research and Innovation, Seville, Spain, 17th-19th of Nov, 2014.
- 7th International Conference on Education, and New Learning Technologies Barcelona, Spain, 6th - 8th of July 2015.
- Research Visit to the Institute for Sanitary Engineering, Water Quality and Solid Waste Management, University of Stuttgart, Germany. 9th- 14th July, 2015
- Research Visit to the Department of Geosciences, Center for Applied Geosciences (ZAG) Mathematisch Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät, University of Tubingen, Germany.
- Research visit to Universities de Paris, France. 11th- 13th July, 2015.
- OU International Water conference, 21st- 23rd September, 2015 Norman, Oklahoma, USA.
- WEFTEC 2015 Conference, 26th -30th September, 2015 McCormick Place Chicago, USA.
- Comsol Multiphysics Modeling Workshop and Conference, Durham, NC, USA. July 2016.
- 25TH COREN ASSEMBLY 8th – 10th of August, 2016 International Event Center, Akure, Nigeria.
- U.S. Mission Nigeria. Public Affairs Section Grant Workshop PAS Lagos. January 20th, 2017
- Transdisciplinary Methodologies, Grant Winning Proposal Writing and International Research Grant Opportunities Pre-Conference Workshop at the 3rd Biennial International Conference University of Ibadan. March 14th-18th, 2017.
- International Conference on Engineering for a Sustainable World (ICESW 2017).
- 1st International Conference on Entrepreneurship CU-ICE 2017, Covenant University.
- 3rd African Engineering Deans Council Summit July 24th -26th, 2017. Covenant University.
- 26TH COREN ASSEMBLY INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CENTER, ABUJA
- OU International Water conference, 18th- 21st September, 2017 Norman, Oklahoma, USA.
- International Conference on Solid Waste Management and Technology (ICWMT) Beijing, China.
- ABET Symposium 9th-14th of April, 2018. Grand Hyatt Hotel, San Diego, California, USA
- Workshop on Engineering Education for Sustainable Cities in Africa, Livingstone, Zambia.
- Technical Session Chair, 9th International Conference on Solid Waste Management and Circular Economy (IconSWM-CE) 2019, November 27 - 30, 2019. at KIIT (Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.
- Conference Chair, International Conference on Sustainable Infrastructural Development (ICSID) 2020
- International Conference on Engineering for a Sustainable World (ICESW) 2020
- Session Chair, Covenant University and United Nations Information Center C-UNIC United Nations @ 75 International Conference 22-24, October 2020
- Water and Health Conference: Science, Policy and Practice, UNC Chapel Hills, October 26-30, 2020.
- Technical Session Chair, 10th International Conference on Solid Waste Management and Circular Economy (IconSWM-CE) 2020, December 02 - 04, 2020. Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.