Martin Adu-Kusi is a Principal Technician in the Department of Physics, college of science at Kwame Nkurumah University of science and technology (KNUST), Kumasi. He holds a Bsc. in Information Technology from KNUST, Diploma in Education from university of Education, Winneba Ghana and a Higher National Diploma (HND) in Electrical/Electronic Engineering from Sunyani Technical University, Ghana in 2008.

He joined Kwame Nkurumah University of Science and Technology in January, 2013 with appointment as a technician in the department of Physics.

His work in the optics lab in supervising undergraduate experimental work  include the following:

• Ensure that components and equipment for every set-up are available and in good working condition.
• Ensure that students adhere to the safety rule and standard operating procedures in the lab.
• Guide students set up the equipment and apparatus following the right procedures and correct connections.
• Guide students to understand the working principles of various equipment and components in their set-up.
• Guide students to perform experiment to obtain the right results.
• And also ensures that the results obtain are correctly recorded and presented.
• Make sure students tidy up their work bench and switch off every electrical or electronic gadget like power supply, measuring amplifier multi-meters and so on.

  Martin has also provided technical support with respect to siting of weather stations, climate data collection, installation and maintenance of equipment for the following projects:

  WASCAL-FURIFLOOD project on “current and future risks of urban and rural flooding in West Africa”. Which was funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and research in collaboration with German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

  This project is part of the PHD work for Mr. Godfred Torsah in the Department of Meteorology and climate, College of Science-KNUST from 2022 to 2024.

  He was responsible for the construction of the enclosure for the weather stations, installation of the raingauges and periodic maintenance with data retrieval from the following ten places:

  Agromet (Department of Animal Science-knust)

  Awomaso

  Akrokerri College of Education

  Bompata presbetarian Senior High School

  Effiduase (G-met station)

  Kubease (G-met station)

  Kuntenase Catholic Senior High

  Mampong (G-met station)

  Mankranso Senior High School

  Nyinahin Catholic Senior High

   

  DACCIWA (Dynamics-Aerosol-Chemistry-Cloud-Interactions in West Africa) project for collection for rainfall data across the Ashanti region, Ghana.

  This was also a postgraduate project for the PHD work of Dr. Winifred Ayinpogbilla Atiah in the department of meteorology and climate science.

  This project work gave me a lot of experience in solar powered systems, electronics and programming because I was using Arduino uno and C++ program to collect and store rainfall data on an SD card which was downloaded later by a wireless connection using ‘Win XCP’.