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Professor Ebenezer Mensah is currently lecturing at the Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, College of Engineering of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi. He has been aa Professor since August, 2014. He served as the Head of the Department from August, 2010 to July, 2014 and as the Chairman of the University Security Services Management Committee from August 2010 to February, 2013. He is a Fellow of The Energy Center (TEC), KNUST. He holds PhD in Environmental Engineering with focus on turning waste into useful energy source and waste treatment, MSc in Rural Engineering from Cranfield University, UK and MSc in Agricultural Engineering (Mechanisation Option) from Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanisation in Uzbekistan. He teaches Wastewater Irrigation, Wastewater Treatment for Developing Countries, Renewable Energy Management, Irrigation and Flood Control and Agricultural Field Machinery Management and both undergraduate and graduate levels. He has been collaborating with some foreign partners on some projects funded by internal funding agencies such as CIDA, UNDP, etc. He has been a local supervisor of foreign postgraduate students from EAWAG, Switzerland on Dry Fermentation Production of Biogas from Municipal Waste and students from University of Western Ontario, Canada, on Biodiesel Production from Waste Vegetable Oil. He has been an Adjunct Research Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Western Ontario, Canada. He combines engineering science, policy and planning tools to undertake R&D in energy access, quality of life and productive improvements of the poor in Ghana and Africa. Arising out of his R&D efforts are a number of scholarly journal publications, conference proceedings, technical papers and working prototypes.