Ph.D. Student, J. Mike Walker ’66 Department of Mechanical Engineering
103A Doherty Building, 3123 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843
Hometown: Sapele, Nigeria
Email: okpakoo@tamu.edu
Ogheneochuko (Sam) Okpako is a Ph.D. student in the J. Mike Walker ’66 Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University, since Fall 2025. He earned his Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Benin in Nigeria. Sam’s prior research experience includes the design and mechanical characterization of fiber-reinforced epoxy composites for ballistic applications. As a graduate researcher in the HVIL, Sam aims to investigate the thermal and mechanical response of multifunctional composite structures, under hyper velocity impact loading conditions.