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Engineering Beyond Classrooms
Empowering students with cutting-edge knowledge, hands-on experience, and the tools to shape the future of technology and innovation.
PERSONALITY OF THE WEEK
Celebrating Excellence and Innovation.
Prof. Kwabena Biritwum Nyarko
Provost, College of Engineering — KNUST
Professor Kwabena Biritwum Nyarko is a Professor at the Civil Engineering Department of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana. He has 30 years of teaching and research experience in Water and Sanitation. His research focuses on water transport and distribution, sanitation technologies, and sustainable water and sanitation service delivery.
He is the Provost of the College of Engineering at KNUST and a valued member of the Regional Water and Sanitation Centre, Kumasi (RWESCK). He serves on the Board of the Engineering Council of Ghana and is a Council member of the Ghana Institution of Engineers.
Prof Nyarko has over one hundred (100) publications in peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings, and technical reports.
The GESA Journey
Since 1967, the Ghana Engineering Students' Association has been at the forefront of academic excellence, student leadership, and industrial innovation at KNUST.
Our Rich History
Founded in 1967 as the official voice for all engineering students at KNUST.
Emerged alongside the School of Engineering's growth since 1952.
Representative of Civil, Electrical, and Mechanical Engineering since inception.
Mandated to foster academic excellence and create platforms for leadership.
A legacy built on nearly six decades of engineering tradition and student advocacy.
What We Do
Engineer's Festival: A signature week-long celebration of innovation and exhibitions.
Mindset Revolution: Transformative personal development workshops.
Tech Seminars: Masterclasses on AI, automation, and sustainable energy.
Leadership Training: Capacity building for the next generation of academic leaders.
STEM Outreach: Community projects aimed at inspiring secondary school students.
Oldest Association
One of the pioneering and oldest student bodies at KNUST.
Largest Population
The College of Engineering is the largest in KNUST by student count.
Engineering Week
ENG Week has been a campus highlight for over four decades.
Global Alumni
GESA alumni lead top sectors in energy, aviation, and tech worldwide.
Educational Pathways International (EPI) Scholarship
The Scholarship is open to all Ghanaian students in their 1st & 2nd years, who are Brilliant but Needy Students of KNUST and are pursuing full-time RE...
Fondazione Edu (Edu Foundation) Scholarship
For only first and second year regular students in KNUST. It is a partner organization based in Italy, is offering scholarships to Brilliant but needy...
GETFund Scholarship
Government-funded local tertiary scholarship covering tuition and related costs. Who It’s For: All Undergraduate Students...
Featured Clubs and Societies
Connect with communities that match your passions and engineering interests.
American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) - KNUST
The KNUST Student Chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, preparing future chemical and process engineers through industry networking, technical forums, mentorship and global competitions.
Agora Techne
An independent technology, innovation and skills-development community founded at KNUST in 2026, helping members gather, learn, create and innovate through hands-on workshops, projects and hackathons.
IEEE Computer Society (IEEE CS) - KNUST
The IEEE Computer Society KNUST Student Branch Chapter brings together students passionate about software, AI, cybersecurity and emerging tech through training, projects, mentorship and outreach.
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Pulse and Play
𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐏𝐔𝐋𝐒𝐄 𝐈𝐒 𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐋𝐋 𝐎𝐍.🔥 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞, 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐲! 𝐏𝐔𝐋𝐒𝐄 & 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐘 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐠𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬, 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜, 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠. 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬, 𝐤𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲. 𝐖𝐞’𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫! 💛🖤 ©️ 𝐆𝐄𝐒𝐀 𝐏𝐔𝐁𝐋𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐓𝐘 𝟐𝟔/𝟐𝟕
Pendown Challenge 3.0
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗪𝗮𝘀 𝗦𝗲𝘁. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝗪𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘆. 🎤✍️ Pendown Challenge 3.0 just wrapped up, and what an experience it was. Over three electrifying days, students from across the college came together to compete, learn, and express themselves through debate, public speaking, and spoken word. Starting from the faculty level, teams were groomed, selected, and tested before stepping onto the big stage. The preliminary and semi-final debate rounds on Wednesday and Thursday were intense — eight teams, sharp arguments, and no room for mediocrity. Friday's main event brought it all together: a communication and public speaking seminar, breathtaking spoken word performances, a public speaking competition, and the grand championship debate. In the end, excellence found its names: 🏆 Debate Winners: FCGESA Team 2 🎙️ Public Speaking Winner: Elvis Aboagye Asante But beyond the trophies, Pendown Challenge 3.0 was a reminder that the ability to think critically and speak boldly is one of the most powerful tools a student can carry into the world. Congratulations to every participant, judge, spoken word artist for giving of their best. A special thank you to our sponsors Intelligent Building Solutions HQ, and The Torah Group Of Companies for making this possible and the general secretary committee who made this possible. 👏 To the winners — the bar has been raised. 🔥 #PendownChallenge #GESA #StudentExcellence #PublicSpeaking #Debate #SpokenWord #KNUST
World Engineering Day 2026 Outreach
- The Spark Took. World Engineering Day (KNUST Basic School) We said we were going. We would walk into classrooms and disrupt every quiet lie that tells a young person the world of engineering is not for them. However we did not know what we would walk into. That was the honest truth of it. You can believe in young people in the abstract in their potential, their curiosity, their hunger and still hold your breath when the doors open and the belief has to hold up in an actual room. It held. Completely. - Before It Began, Someone Had to Build the Space A moment like this does not arrive fully formed. Someone has to care enough to build it.  The organizers Frederick Agyekum, Oheneba Owusu, Marvin Adu Acheampong, Tracy Coleman, Prince Larbi, Ababio Alvin-James Nii Noi, Ken Kobina Dadzie, Christabel, Tracy Ofosu-Hemaa and Hackman were already moving before the students arrived, arranging, adjusting, making sure the room felt like it was ready to receive someone important.  And among them, sleeves rolled up and fully present, was Stephen Owusu, President of the Ghana Engineering Students Association.  There is something worth saying about that. He did not arrive to be introduced and take his seat. He arrived to work doing what needed doing, without fanfare and without distance. Leadership, in that moment, looked like someone who had every reason to stand at the front of the room choosing instead to make sure the room was worthy of the people about to enter it. It set a tone before a single word had been spoken. And the team around him felt it. Because that is what the room was, not just a conference space. A carefully prepared invitation. The kind of environment that tells a young person, without a single word being spoken that someone thought about them before they walked through the door. It showed. The room was beautiful. And that was not an accident. - The Address That Set the Tone Before anything else, Dr. Eric Anokye spoke.  There was a stillness to how the room received him. Not the silence of an audience waiting for a speaker to finish but the kind that settles over people when they sense that what is being said is real, and the occasion it marks is serious. His opening address was formal without being distant, solemn without being cold. It named what the day actually was: not a visit, but a commitment. A declaration that the College of Engineering had chosen to extend itself; to cross whatever distance existed between institution and community and speak directly to the generation that would carry everything forward. By the time he finished, the room understood why it had gathered. The motion had been set.  - A Presenter Who Felt Like a Peer When Daniel Tsatsu Selormey took the floor, something shifted. He did not stand at a distance and pour information downward. He moved through the material the way someone does when they genuinely want the person across from them to understand ;patient, direct, unhurried. There was something almost pastoral about it. A peer who had simply walked a little further down the road and was turning back to say: “come, it is worth it”.  Every department he introduced became a conversation. Every question he posed to the room was met with hands in the air before he had finished asking it. - The Room Was Fully Alive And while all of that was happening at the front, the rest of the room had its own quiet choreography. Princess Mary-Ann Sampson Eduam and Miracle Hadassah B. N. Adams moved through the crowd with the kind of ease that only comes from genuine investment. They were not collecting responses they were listening. Catching the questions that didn’t quite make it to the microphone. Reading the room. Drawing out the student who had something to say but hadn’t yet decided it was worth saying. The feedback they gathered told its own story: question after question from young people who were, frankly, astonishing. The confidence was not what anyone had braced for. The intelligence behind the questions was not what anyone had quietly assumed they might find.  They were stopped, more than once, by what they heard. Woven through the entire programme were student representatives Victoria Owusu, Sedem Kwaku Bonsi, Gah Solace Semenyo from the various engineering faculties and their presence said something that no slide could. They were not there as decoration. They were there as proof. Young people, not far removed in age from the students sitting in front of them, who had made the choice and were living it.  During the Q&A session mediated by Mrs Afia Kesewaa Akosah, the lecturers Dr Eric Anokye and Dr Emmanuella Kwao, and engineering students Stephanie Adwoa Konadu and Nana Kwame Oppong Antwi and Princess Mary-Ann moved through the Q&A the same way, not performing answers, but giving them. Taking the questions seriously. Meeting curiosity with honesty. There is a particular relief a young person feels when the adult in the room does not talk around their question, and it was visible on faces throughout that session. Shoulders dropping. Eyes widening.   And through all of it, the photography and videography team, Gabriel Awinzo and Korankye Cross moved like shadows; present everywhere, obtrusive nowhere. Catching a smile at the exact moment it broke. A hand raised mid-thought. A student leaning forward in their seat, completely absorbed. The reactions that tell the real story of a room: the ones nobody performs because nobody knows they’re being seen.  - How It Ended The programme was brought to a close by Dr. Emmanuella Kwao, and her closing words carried the weight of everything the day had been building toward.  She reminded the students that engineering does not exist in silos. That in the real world, no discipline stands alone. That the greatest solutions; the ones that move communities, that save lives, that build the infrastructure of a nation, are always the product of multiple fields working together. And then she told them, with warmth and without hesitation, that she hoped to see them in the world of engineering. It was not a pleasantry. It was a challenge. And the students received it as one.  Because as the formal session drew to a close, the VR team, Cyril Otchere and Nana Kwame Oppong Antwi stepped in and what happened next was something else entirely. One by one, the students put on the headsets. And one by one, they were lifted out of that conference room and set down inside the College of Engineering at KNUST.  They walked its spaces virtually. Saw its laboratories, its grounds, its buildings, the place that had been spoken about all morning as somewhere they could go, made suddenly, viscerally real. Some of them went quiet. Others laughed. A few reached out instinctively, as if they could touch what they were seeing. It was the right note to end on. Not inspiration in the abstract. But the actual feeling of being somewhere of standing, even briefly and virtually, inside the future being described for them. That is what wonder looks like when it lands. - What the Day Proved There is an assumption quietly embedded in outreach work: that something must be given before anything can grow. That young people arrive as empty vessels and leave as something more. KNUST Basic School refused that story.  The students there did not need to be convinced that they were capable. They needed to be met seriously, fully, in a space that had been thoughtfully prepared for them, by people who showed up not as authorities but as evidence. Evidence that the path exists and that it runs, without question, through people who look exactly like them. GESA, KEEP, WinE, and every person who played a role that day from the organizers who built the room to the team who captured every moment in it offered that evidence freely.  The next generation of Ghanaian engineers is not coming. They are already here. Someone just has to keep showing up. - TO GOD BE THE GLORY Plans were made. Teams were assembled. A room was prepared. People showed up and gave everything they had. But those of us who were there know that what unfolded went beyond what any plan could have guaranteed. The way the day held together, from the first word of Dr. Anokye’s address to the last moment of wonder at the close. None of that was ours to manufacture. All glory, for every bit of it, belongs to God. It was His hand that made the room what it was, His grace that moved through every person who served that day, and His purpose being worked out in the lives of every young mind that left that school carrying something new. We planted. We watered. But it is God who gives the growth and for that, we are grateful beyond what words properly allow.  To learn more about GESA outreach programmes or get involved, contact the College of Engineering Student Affairs Office
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