Daniel Opoku

Biography

Ing. Dr. Daniel Opoku is a Senior Lecturer (Faculty Member) at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of the College of Engineering, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana. He obtained his BSc degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from KNUST, Ghana in 2007. He served as a teaching assistant in the same institution for a year. He then traveled to pursue a direct Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at North Carolina A & T State University (NCA&TSU), USA where he obtained his Ph.D. in July 2013. His Ph.D. research focused on indoor navigation of an assistive robot in a cluttered environment. After his Ph.D., he undertook 1-year postdoctoral research in the Autonomous Control and Information Technology Center at NCA&TSU.

Daniel worked as a Navigation Systems engineer at Mercury Data Systems Inc. from September 2014 to October 2016 before transitioning to Ghana as a lecturer in his Alma Mater. He currently teaches courses in the areas of measurements and instrumentation, controls, automation and computational methods to both graduates and undergraduate students. His areas of research include sensor technologies, fuzzy logic and fuzzy controllers, artificial intelligence, control and automation.

Daniel has served in several capacities and on different committee. He is also a Mastercard E-Learning Champion (in training) from the College of Engineering, KNUST. He has great interest in revolutionalizing STEM education through the use of Technology.