Dr. Theresa Odun-Ayo is the director of the Missouri State University/Missouri S&T Cooperative Engineering Program. She joined the program as a full-time faculty in 2011. She worked as a faculty at the Nigerian Defense University for two years and was a Principal Electrical Engineer with the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency for five years before coming to the United States for further studies. She holds both a bachelor's and master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from ATBU Bauchi and The University of Benin respectively. She has two doctoral degrees, a Ph. D in Electrical Engineering degree from Missouri S&T and a Dmin in leadership from Evangel University. She is passionate about making sustained impact in her career and community.

Selected Publications

• A. Buckthorpe, T. Odun-Ayo, M. Crow, “Electricks: Pre-College Activities in Electromechanics”, IEEE FIE Annual Conference, San Jose, CA, October 2018.
• T. Odun-Ayo, T. Obafemi-Ajayi, “Building the K-12 Engineering Pipeline: An assessment of where we stand”, IEEE FIE Annual Conference, Indianapolis, IN, October 2017.
• T. Odun-Ayo, S. Basham, M. Burkhart, “Power System Transient Stability: Modeling Using Stochastic Functions”, ASEE Zone III Midwest Conference, Springfield, MO, September 2015
• Odun-Ayo, T. Crow, M. L., ‘Structure-Preserved Power System Transient Stability Using Stochastic Energy Functions’, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Volume: PP, Issue: 99, 2012.
• Odun-Ayo, T. Crow, M. L., ‘An Analysis of Power System Transient Stability Using Stochastic Energy Functions’, European Transactions on Electrical Power, DOI: 10.1002/etep.646, October 2011.

Selected Awards

• 2019 - Gold Award Recognition for Recruitment and Retention, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
• 2018 - Gold Award Recognition for Recruitment and Retention, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.