Spotlight

Student
Spotlight

Meet the students shaping the future of mechanical engineering.

Akosua Manu
Founder, Orcta Technologies

Akosua Manu

Abena Mensah

Abena is a level 400 student who founded SolarKit Ghana, a social enterprise building affordable solar kits for rural communities. Her project won the 2025 KNUST Innovation Prize.

Founder, SolarKit Ghana

Abena Mensah

Kwame Nkrumah II

Kwame was awarded the National Best Engineering Student award at the 2025 Ghana Engineering Awards. He maintained a perfect 4.0 GPA while serving as class rep.

National Best Engineering Student 2025

Kwame Nkrumah II

Esi Amoako

Esi co-authored a paper on 'Optimisation of Small-Scale Wind Turbines for Urban Environments' presented at the West Africa Renewable Energy Conference.

Published Researcher — Renewable Energy

Esi Amoako