Prince Appiah Owusu
Designation
Head of Department
Staff Grade
Senior Lecturer
Department
Department of Oil and Gas Engineering
Faculty
Faculty of Engineering and Technology
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Dr. Prince Appiah Owusu is an engineering educator whose background cuts across Environmental Hydrology, Environmental Sustainability, Water Resources Assessment, Surface and Groundwater Hydraulics and Mechanics of flow through porous media. The beauty of the complex and interrelated nature of engineering backgrounds makes it interesting to have someone who has crosscutting knowledge and is multidisciplinary in nature. Dr. Owusu’s appreciation of this complexity is admirable and is therefore visible in his academic background. Dr. Owusu studied Civil Engineering at the undergraduate level where he focused on the sustainability of structural industry by using Phyllite an environmental mine waste as a building material substitute. At his master’s degree level, the focus was still on environmental sustainability using storage reservoirs to manage urban floods whilst his doctoral research centered on using the understanding in the ground movement of fluid to solve related challenges in oil and gas flows and connectivity.

Dr Owusu’s work experience cut across both academia and industry.   He has held a good number of administrative positions as Head of Department and Deputy Director in Kumasi Technical University. He has also consulted for Mount Olivet Presbyterian Church at Patasi, Kumasi, Ghana. As a team member of the Partnership for Applied Science (PASS) Project in 2018 with Hochshule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, University of Applied Science, Prince was part of the Green Campus concept for a sustainable environment. He was also a member of the team that won the proposal to train no-science high school graduates for engineering.

Dr. Owusu has strong teaching experience and currently teaches courses such as Applied Hydraulics, Urban Drainage and Hydrology and Integrated Water Resources and Management at the postgraduate level. At the undergraduate level, he teaches Fluid Mechanics, Engineering Hydraulics, and Irrigation Engineering.  Additionally, Dr Owusu taught Reservoir Recovery Techniques, Reservoir Engineering and Well Performance at KNUST Department of Petroleum Engineering from 2018 to 2021. Dr. Owusu is currently a Senior Lecturer and Head of Civil Engineering Department, Kumasi Technical University, Kumasi. The Department is the oldest and most experienced Competency Based Training Department (CBT) in Ghana and has over the years been serving as a mentoring centre on CBT for other Technical Universities in Ghana.

As a generation thinker and a multidisciplinary person, Dr. Owusu believes in educating the current young generation with the necessary skill such as research skill, problem-solving and critical thinking skills to be relevant and functional in ever-changing complex socio-economic environment.

Dr. Owusu has over 21 peer-reviewed journal papers to his credit. Prince is currently working on waste to energy adaption systems and environmental and energy sustainability using municipal solid waste management.

Prince is an energetic, hardworking, and motivated Engineer who has developed a mature and responsible approach to any task that he undertakes.

Additionally, he has good interpersonal skill and problem-solving skills. As an excellent team worker, he is very keen and willing to achieve certain objectives on time and with excellence.

His ever active and dynamic approach to work is admirable and often seeks new challenging responsibilities with excitement.

Dr. Owusu holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering with a specialization in Structural Engineering from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi Ghana, He also holds a Master’s Degree in Water Resources Engineering and Management from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi Ghana, and a Ph.D. in Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering from Yangtze University, China.

 

  • PhD Petroleum and Natural Engineering, Yangtze China, 2015
  • MSc. 2011, Water Resources Engineering, KNUST - Kumasi, 2011
  • Bsc. Civil Engineering

Cooperate member, 
Ghana Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET, Gh) 
Member, Society of Petroleum Engineers

  • Water Resources Assessment,
  • Oil and Gas Interwell Connectivity,
  • Efficient Well Pattern and Density,
  • and Reasonable Oil Field Development Policy

Teaching and assessment of students at the postgraduate, and undergraduate including Higher National Diploma levels in various areas as follows: Elements of Petroleum Engineering, Petrophysics, Well Testing, Applied Hydraulics, Environmental Hydrology, IWRM, Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulics, including supervision of postgraduate theses.  Prince has successfully supervised three (3) postgraduate theses, five (5) theses currently under his supervision.

  • External Examiner at Department of Oil and Gas Engineering,  All Nation University,
  • External Examiner at Petroleum Engineering Department, KNUST,
  • External Examiner at Materials Engineering Department, KNUST.
  • Prince also served in many committees of the university either as the Chair or as a member.

2011- Seminar on Research Methods and Paper Writing, Directorate of Postgraduate Studies, Kumasi Polytechnic, Kumasi, Ghana

19th International Sedimentological Congress At the Crossroads of new frontiers, Yangte

University, Caidian-Wuhan, Hubei-China – 4th September, 2014.

International Conference on Reservoir Characterization, Facies and Soft Sediment Deformation, Yangtze University, Caidian-Wuhan, Hubei - China 19th to 21st May, 2014

International Conference on China Unconventional Oil and Gas Exploration and Development, Yangtze University, Caidian-Wuhan, Hubei Province-China –  29th to 30th April, 2014

The 2015 International Conference of the Commonwealth Association Polytechnic in Africa (CAPA) at the Golden Bean Hotel, Kumasi Ghana from 7th to 12th December 2015

2nd International Conference on Applied Sciences and Technology (ICAST 2015), at New Great Hall, Kumasi Polytechnic, Kumasi from 28th to 30th October 2015.

International Conference on Deep Sea Sediments – Archives for oceans and climate history, Yangtze University, Caidian-Wuhan, Hubei Province-China from 20th to 22nd May, 2015.

  1. P. A. Owusu, S. N. Odai, F. O. Annor and K. A. Adjei (2013). Reservoir storage for managing floods in urban areas: a case study of Dzorwulu basin in Accra. Hydrological Processes. Hydrol. Process. 27, 1615–1625 (2013) Published online 11 May 2012 in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com) DOI: 10.1002/hyp.9286
  2. E.K. Nyantakyi, P.A. Owusu and J.K. Borkloe (2013). Performance Assessment of Anloga Signalized Intersection on the 24th February Road, Kumasi-Ghana Using Micro Simulation Model. Journal of Civil Engineering Research 2013, 3(3): 114-126. DOI: 10.5923/j.jce.20130303.04
  3. P.A. Owusu, E.K. Nyantakyi and J.K. Borkloe (2013). Assessing Performance of Irrigation of Rice in Ghana. ARPN Journal of Science and Technology, ISSN 2225-7217. Vol.3, No. 7, July 2013. http://ejournalofscience.org
  4. P. A. Owusu, E.K. Nyantakyi (2013). Advances and Challenges of Oil and Gas Developments in Ghana. ARPN Journal of Science and Technology, ISSN 2225-7217, Vol. 3, No. 5 May 2013. http://ejournalofscience.org/
  5. P. A. Owusu, L. DeHua, E. K. Nyantakyi, R. D. Nagrey, J. K. Borkloe, and I. K. Frimpong (2013). Prognosticating the Production Performance of Saturated Gas Drive Reservoir: A Theoretical Perspective. Scientific and Academic Publishing, International Journal of Mining Engineering and Mineral Processing, p-ISSN: 2166-997X, e-ISSN: 2166-9988, Website: http://journal.sapub.org/mining, 2(2): 24-33 DOI: 10.5923/j.mining.20130202.02.
  6. E. K. Nyantakyi, T. Li., W. Hu, J.K. Borkloe, P. A. Owusu, R.D. Nagre,(2013). Determination of Organic Matter Richness for Agbada Formation, Osioka South Area, Western Niger Delta, Nigeria. ARPN Journal of Science and Technology. ISSN 2225-7217. Vol.3, No. 8, August, 2013. http://ejournalofscience.org
  7. P. A. Owusu, Liu DeHua, Robert D. Nagre, Appraisal of The Interwell Connectivity From Production Data, Petroleum & Coal 56(5) 509-531, 2014
  8. P. A. Owusu, Liu DeHua, Robert D. Nagre, Buckley-Leverett Displacement Theory For Waterflooding Performance In Stratified Reservoir, Petroleum & Coal 56(3) 257-271, 2014
  9. P. A. Owusu, Liu DeHua, Robert D. Nagre, Simplified Approach Of Evaluating Waterflooding Performance In Stratified Reservoirs Using Combination of Methods Int. J. Engg. Sc. & Mgmt. | Vol. IV | Issue II | Jul-Dec 2014
  10. Nagre, R. D., Zhao, Lin, Frimpong, I. K., and P. A. Owusu, (2015) Evaluation of Sulfonated Acrylamide-Based Tetrapolymer As A Rheology Modifier In Water-Based Drilling Fluid, Petroleum & Coal, ISSN 1337-7027, 57(2) 2015
  11. P. A. Owusu, DeHua  Liu, Nagre, R. D., Evaluation of Productivity Performance of Horizontal Wells, Petroleum & Coal 57(5) 291-294, 2015
  12. P. A. Owusu,  DeHua  Liu, Nagre, R. D. Prognostication of Water Flooding Performance In Communicating Layered Reservoir, International Journal of Earth Sciences and Engineering, ISSN 0974-5904, Volume 08, No. 05, October 2015, P.P.256-258
  13. P. A. Owusu, Nyantakyi, E.K. and Borkloe, J. K., Strength Evaluation of Phyllite Aggregates As Concrete Material, Int. J. Eng. Sc. & Mgmt. | Vol. V | Issue I | Jan-Jun 2015
  14. P. A. Owusu, Nyantakyi, E.K. and Borkloe, J. K., Effects of Land Use Change on Hydrologic Models: A Case Study of Urban Basin Accra, Int. J. Eng. Sc. & Mgmt. | Vol. V | Issue I | Jan-Jun 2015