Prof. F.O. Akuffo
Professor Fred Ohene Akuffo has been teaching in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) Kumasi, Ghana, since 1973. He was head of the Department (1992 – 2000) and Dean of the School of Engineering (1998 – 2000). His subject area is thermal and energy systems engineering and he is co-author of a textbook in engineering thermodynamics.
Professor Akuffo’s research interests have been focused, since 1974, on renewable energy, particularly solar, and development issues. He has supervised graduate theses on various topics, up to the doctorate level and directed several international development projects including the CN $1.2 million CIDA (Canadian International Development Agency) funded cooperation project on Renewable Energy, which was implemented jointly by the University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada and KNUST (1992 – 1999). He has written numerous technical reports and papers, and published scholarly articles in the premier solar energy journals; he is recognized internationally as a renewable energy expert.
Professor Akuffo’s professional and service activities have also focused on renewable energy. He served on the erstwhile National Energy Board; he is a member of the International Solar Energy Society and founding Chairman of the Ghana Solar Energy Society. He is a member of the Ghana Institute of Engineers.
Fred Ohene Akuffo was educated at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on university scholarship. He graduated A.B (1966), with a major in engineering science and applied physics. He holds MEng (1969) and PHD (1973) degrees in mechanical from the University of Toronto, Canada, for research and study in plasma dynamics. He attended the Presbyterian Boys Secondary School, Odumasi-Krobo (1958) and completed the Cambridge Higher School Certificate at Prempeh College (1960).
Professor Fred Ohene Akuffo is married and has five children, four girls and one boy; he will turn sixty-three in May 2003.
