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Personality of The Week: Prof Anthony Andrews

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Our Personality for this week is none other than Professor Anthony Andrews. On Personality Dialogue today, we bring to you a profile of this outstanding Personality, a Royal and Santa Clausian.

PERSONALITY PROFILE
Professor Anthony Andrews is a lecturer at the Department Materials Engineering (DMSE), KNUST and is one of Africa’s youngest and most refined professors especially in the field of engineering. His extremely rich blend of academic, research and professional knowledge and experience makes him an ace in his field and beyond.

EDUCATION
He obtained his SSSCE at Adisadel College, Cape Coast in the year 1996.  He studied B.Sc. Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy at KNUST. He has an M.Sc. in Materials Engineering from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa and a Ph.D. in Materials Engineering from the same institution. His M.Sc. research focused on corrosion engineering while his Ph.D. was on ceramics engineering.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
He joined DMSE KNUST in March 2009 as a lecturer and in August 2013 got promoted as a Senior Lecturer. Before becoming a lecturer at DMSE-KNUST, he was a Senior Research Scientist at Element Six (Pty) Ltd. , a world leader in the production of synthetic diamond and tungsten carbide, South Africa.

His research interests include Corrosion and corrosion control; Tribology; Refractory development; Waste Management among others.

Among some of the undergraduate courses he currently teaches are  Engineering Ceramics; Corrosion of Engineering Materials; Assaying; Mineral Processing and Waste Management .

He was an Online Associate Editor, Journal of Science and Technology (JUST) and Editor for African Corrosion Journal. At DMSE-KNUST, he has served as Vacation Training Officer, Laboratory Supervisor, Head of Department. He is a former College Examinations Officer for CoE KNUST.

He was part of the team that conducted failure investigations into Golden Star Prestea/Bogoso Mines BIOX tanks. He was also a member of the panel of assessors of Minerals Engineering's Programme at UMaT, Tarkwa, in September, 2015. He was the Principal investigator into refractory failure at SA Mint (Pty).

SOCIAL
Prof Andrews is an active member of the Ghana Institution of Engineers (GhIE). He is also a fellow of Queen Elizabeth II Hall.

His hobbies include watching of movies and listening to music. He is happily married to Mrs Beatrice Andrews and they are blessed with two children.

Prof Andrews has a deluxe conflation of academic, research and professional experience that cannot all be included in this post. He is a great inspiration to many young up-and-coming ones that great feats are attainable through hard work and perseverance.

Dear reader, we hope you had a worthwhile time drawing inspiration from Professor Anthony Andrews. Stay tuned as we bring you another interesting time on Personality Dialogue.

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