College of Engineering
The KNUST College of Engineering (CoE) was founded in October 1952 and has over half a century, maintained a reputation of quality training and being the forefront of preparing manpower to support the technological and engineering advancement of Ghana and Africa.
Many well-known Ghanaian academics and professionals, both in and outside Ghana, have passed through the lecture halls/rooms of this prestigious African institution. The College has a vision to uplift the quality of Engineering Education and promote Technology Advancement in Ghana and Africa. Currently CoE comprises eleven (11) departments running a number of academic programmes at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. These programmes include Civil Engineering, Geomatic Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Telecommunications Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Agricultural Engineering and Petroleum Engineering, among others.
The College, in collaboration with the KNUST School of Graduate Studies, runs a number of specialized postgraduate programmes such as Masters programmes in Renewable Energy Technologies, Water Resources Engineering and Management, Water Supply and Environmental Sanitation, Electrical Power Systems, Agro-Environmental Engineering, Bioengineering, and Food and Post-Harvest Engineering.
In addition to research conducted in all academic Departments, the College also hosts six (6) Research Centres.
The Technology Consultancy Centre (TCC), founded in 1972 with a mandate to work with KNUST’s academic departments to conduct research, co-develop and transfer technology to support small and medium scale industries in Ghana, is the College's foremost research centre.
The College currently has the following faculties, departments and research centres:
Faculty of Civil and Geo-Engineering
- Department of Civil Engineering
- Department of Geomatic Engineering
- Department of Geological Engineering
- Department of Petroleum Engineering
Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Department of Computer Engineering
- Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Department of Telecommunications Engineering
Faculty of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering
- Department of Agricultural and Bio-Systems Engineering
- Department of Chemical Engineering
- Department of Materials Engineering
- Department of Mechanical Engineering
Research Centres
- Technology Consultancy Centre (TCC)
- The Brew Hammond Energy Centre (TBHEC)
- Regional Water and Environmental Sanitation Centre, Kumasi (RWESCK)
- West Africa Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASSCAL)
- Transport Research and Education Centre, KNUST (TRECK)
- KNUST Engineering Education Project (KEEP)
