All you need to know about KNUST’s acting Pro-Vice Chancellor, Prof. Mark Adom-Asamoah.

Prof Mark Adom-Asamoah was appointed the Provost of the College of Engineering, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana in August 2016. He is a past Dean of the Faculty of Civil and Geo-Engineering, Head of the Department of Petroleum Engineering and the Sectional Head of Structural Engineering. The College of Engineering which is the premiere Engineering College in Ghana has a student population of over 6000. It comprises of three academic faculties, 10 academic departments and 5 research centres. The College runs 18 undergraduate and over 40 postgraduate programmes.

Dr. Adom-Asamoah is a distinguished Fulbright Fellow, Commonwealth Scholar and British Council Scholar. He obtained his BSc. in Civil Engineering from KNUST in 1993; an MSc. in Structural Steel Design from the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of London in 1995 and a PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Bristol, UK in 2005. He has served as a Visiting Scholar at the University Of Bristol, UK and a Fulbright Senior Research Fellow at the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Engineering. Atlanta, USA.

As the Provost for the past two years, he has shown academic leadership by securing funding of over 5,000,000 USD (five million USdollars) in support of research and teaching, introduction of new undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, the upgrade of laboratory equipment for teaching and research and expanded the academia-industry collaboration of the College. He has secured scholarships for both undergraduate and postgraduate students, established a Student Innovations Centre and established a fund to help the needy students of the College.

He has chaired undergraduate Civil Engineering programme accreditation panels in several institutions on behalf of the National Accreditation Board of Ghana. He is a Fellow of the Ghana Institution of Engineering (GhIE) and a resource person for continuing professional development modules on behalf of the GhIE.

Credit: Global Engineering Deans Council