Lutcher Brown Fellowship
Unfilled chairs and professorships are used to support recently tenured faculty and help accelerate the success of their research through fellowships. The fellowships are one-year, nonrecurring honorific appointments. Fellows are nominated by academic leadership and selected by the provost through a competitive process.
Ibukun Awolusi, Ph.D.
Lutcher Brown Fellowship
Associate Professor, School of Civil & Environmental Engineering, and Construction Management
Division Leader, Construction Science and Management
Ibukun Awolusi's areas of research expertise are in construction safety and health, automation and robotics, innovation and technology integration in construction, sustainable materials and infrastructure, and workforce development. He serves as the principal investigator and director of the UTSA Safety Innovation and Sustainable Infrastructure Lab, which aims to create cross-disciplinary solutions for improving work safety performance and infrastructure sustainability while providing students with unique research experiences and opportunities to develop creative problem-solving skills.
Awolusi’s research has attracted grant funding support from federal agencies and foundations including the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the United States Department of Labor (U.S. DOL), the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and the Association for Iron & Steel Technology (AIST) Foundation, among others. He has published and presented numerous research articles in top-tier peer-reviewed journals and at notable international conferences.
As a seasoned researcher and educator, Awolusi continuously pushes the frontiers of knowledge through his scholarly work and the implementation of innovative pedagogies, and he has been honored with multiple prestigious awards for demonstrating excellence in teaching and research. Awolusi is a Teaching Fellow of the Association of College and University Educators (ACUE), a Teaching Faculty Champion at UTSA, and an active member of several professional organizations, including the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP), the Associated Schools of Construction (ASC), the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), and the Association for Iron & Steel Technology (AIST).
Awolusi earned his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from The University of Alabama.
