Achievements
Records of Service to the community (University/National/International) (with dates and supporting evidence)
University
From 1st of June 2001 to 30th September 2004 we completed our well-known School (now College) of Engineering Laboratories-Offices Complex. I was the Structural Engineer for the Project.
From 23rd of August 2004 to December 2004, as assignment from our Head of Department we worked intensively on architectural and structural engineering drawings for the proposed Transportation Laboratory and the proposed Transportation Hostel for our Civil Engineering Department.
From September 2001 to December 2004 I was sectional coordinator for the course CE 497: Civil Engineering Design (CED) Project in ’Structures’.
From January 2006 to date I am one of the reviewers of our KNUST Journal of Science and Technology (JUST).
Since September 2006 I was the College Library Representative for our Civil Engineering Department.
From 31st August 2012 to September 2016 I was Head, Division of Structures in our Civil Engineering Department, KNUST.
From September 2015 to September 2019 I was the newly appointed KNUST Structural Engineering Consultant.
I was Head, Department of Civil Engineering, 2016-2017.
International
From Second Semester 2021-2022 Academic year to date I am teaching the course: Properties of Civil Engineering Materials at USET, Banjul, Gambia
From April 2014 to date I am external examiner of Department of Civil Engineering, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa.
From January 2005 to date I am one of the reviewers of the American Concrete Institute (ACI) Journals.
From April 2005 to September 2005 significant intensive work was done in the coordination concerning the cooperation between our Civil Engineering Department and the School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences at University of Newcastle, UK.
From October 2002 to date significant intensive work was done in the coordination concerning the cooperation between our two respective Civil Engineering Departments of KNUST and the University of Lome, Togo.
From March 2002 to date significant intensive work was done in the coordination concerning the cooperation between our two respective Civil Engineering Faculties of KNUST and the Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany. My report includes an ample evidence.
From January 2001 to November 2004 intensive works were finally completed on the building project of the New Alpha & Omega Christian Student Resource Centre in Dniepropetrovsk, Ukraine
My evaluation of my performance in the following three areas of attainment with reasons and justification:
(a) Teaching
Courses Taught:
Strength of Materials
Reinforced Concrete Design
Elementary Structures
Properties of Civil Engineering Materials
Structural Analysis
Civil Engineering Design
Civil Engineering Project
Structural Engineering I
Structural Engineering II
Theory of Structures
Pre-stressed Concrete Design for MSc Students
Reinforced Concrete Design at the Department of Architecture
Structural Detailing in Concrete Structures at the Department of Architecture
Reinforced Concrete I at the Department of Civil Engineering, National University of Rwanda
Reinforced Concrete II at the Department of Civil Engineering, National University of Rwanda
In years 2003-2005 when we were only two together with Professor C.K. Kankam in our Division of Structures my lecture/teaching load was high and I am always regular and punctual at lectures.
Good useful lecture notes, handouts and power points slides together with nice view-graphs have been always effectively used by focusing attention, clarifying contents, aiding perception, and extending memory ... etc so that the students could really judge the quality of the learning material.
Practical laboratory works and experimental tests have been organised to support the theoretical concepts for students, providing them of good learning experience. Here too site visits and fields trips are very helpful for them.
I am always able to complete the syllabus of all taught courses on schedule.
The quality of my examination questions and marking schemes is always high.
I am always punctual in setting my examination questions and also punctual in marking of my examination scripts.
I am serious and very active in supervision of project works of my students.
Taking into account all of the courses taught, I could assess my own achievements in teaching, as HIGH.
(b) Promotion of Knowledge
I hold the Ph. D. in Civil/Structural Engineering - Reinforced Precast and Pre-stressed Concrete Structures. I am currently a Senior Lecturer in Civil/Structural Engineering, Jan. 2004. Prior to this, I was employed in the Ukraine.
My research interests include the theoretical and experimental durability and reliability characteristics data on the variation of stresses and strains in reinforced precast and pre-stressed concrete structures under static loading. I have a very strong and good background in Architecture and Architectural Landscape.
My research includes theoretical and experimental analysis of the influence of concrete creep on the long duration nonlinear flexural characteristics and on the exponents of limit states of reinforced precast and pre-stressed concrete various structural members as beams, slabs, columns, load-bearing wall elements, electric poles and trusses, shells and is oriented to the following areas:
- life-cycle analysis, optimization, performance-based design, reliability, and resilience of structures and infrastructure systems
- advanced nonlinear modeling and high performance computing in theory of structures
- nano materials, with focus on construction materials in Civil Engineering
I am emotionally mature with a sense of stability to maintain balance and perspective with:
- Specialization in structural engineering with a keen interest in and ability to teach undergraduate and graduate courses in structural engineering
- Experience and proficiency in the following areas: linear and nonlinear finite difference method analysis, modeling of concrete and other types of structures
- Structural analysis/design experience
- Ability to relate theory to practice
- Effective oral and written communication skills
- Ability to work cooperatively with a diverse student population and with faculty colleagues in departmental and college committees.
Service
Details of my service to the community cited in this point 7 of my present CV including:
1-The building project of the New Alpha & Omega Christian Student Resource Centre in Dniepropetrovsk, Ukraine; here I could add many different consultations on many building sites in Ukraine, and in Togo.
Here on our KNUST Campus:
2-The works on our well-known College of Engineering Laboratories-Offices Complex ‘New Block’;
3-The works on our Tansportation Laboratory and the Tansportation Hostel;
4- The works on the estimate for materials required for the construction of 18 m ´ 0.6 m ´ 0.15 m broken drain near Agric Engineering Workshop;
5-The works concerning cracks on pillars supporting the frontage beam of the dining hall at Queen Elizabeth II Hall;
6-The works on the estimate for materials required for construction of drain and the broken fence wall at security barrack (behind hospital Doctors’ car park);
7-The works on the assessment of facilities two and three;
8-The works on the assessment of Unity Hall covered walkway;
9-The inspection of structural movement in the SMS Getfund Block at KATH;
10-The works on prevention of potential further tragedy on Campus – structural defects and collapse of compound wall – No. 7 Asuogya Road
11-The works on the estimate for materials required to support the concrete slab on walkway behind F. R. N. R.;
12-The works on reported cases of defects in the New Science Block;
13-The inspection of the bridge over the Faculty Road;
14-The works on the assessment of cracks on the Pump House at Horiculture;
15-The works on the structural integrity check from refurbishment of GCB bank;
16-The works including the report on site visit – Las Palmas food service center;
17-The works on the notice received on development of cracks in columns/slabs at College of Agriculture and Natural Resources.
- The works performed after the notice of cracks in walls of offices and request for expansion of existing structure to house laboratory equipment in the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences.
- The inspection of the main block at Republic Hall;
- The assessment of works on a wall between simulation center, clinical students’ hostel and Kath
In 2018 was signed an agreement between the Structural Concrete Institute, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Surveying, University of Applied Sciences of Leipzig, Germany and the Civil Engineering Department, Structural Division, College of Engineering, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana; a serious work was performed to achieve this.
In 2007 another significant outcome of my second visit is the intensive work done concerning the renewed agreement on cooperation between our two respective Faculties: our Faculty of Civil and Geo Engineering and the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Surveying, Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany.
I facilitated a linkage between the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana and the Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany; as a nice result of cooperation agreement was signed by both our Vice-Chancellor and the President of the Leibniz University of Hannover in 2002.
I do contribute to financial support activities in our Catholic communities in Ghana and Togo.
Taking into consideration all of the above described services I could assess my own achievements in service as HIGH.