Credit Hours - 30

Relevant topical research project that seek to address a problem is to be done in the second year and the duration of is one year. A faculty guide will be provided and he / she will guide and monitor the progress of the student and maintain attendance. Students are encouraged to use various teaching aids such as overhead projectors, power point presentation and demonstrative models.
Details of Experiential Research Learning
During the course of the MPhil programme candidates will be required to undertake attachment either at the industry, work with some professors on specific projects or visit partner universities/laboratories to participate in selected programmes/research that are of mutual benefit and capable of leading to the acquisition of special skills. Such areas as hands on training in the use of specialized equipment for microstructural analysis, novel chemical methods in materials synthesis will be key in this regard. Students will be guided in the choice of the attachment programme in order to ensure effective monitoring.
Participation in Research Projects
In addition to the wide-ranging activities outlined above, students will be engaged in on-going projects in the department. These include the following:

Credit Hours - 3

Candidates will be expected to make oral presentation of their research results in the seminar. The seminar presentation should include the following sections: Introduction, methods, results, discussion, and acknowledgements.

Credit Hours - 3

During the seminar session each student is expected to prepare and present a thesis proposal based on the research work they intend to undertake. The proposal should include the following:
1. Problem, hypothesis, or question,
2. Importance of research,
3. Significant prior research,
4. Possible research approach or methodology,
5. Potential outcomes of research and importance of each.

Credit Hours - 3

This course will discuss the processes and procedures for identification and assessment of environmental impacts of development and their implication in over-all decision
making process. The mitigation of the impacts on physical, social and biological systems will be covered. Environmental Impact Assessment as a tool for achieving sustainable development will be covered in detail.

Credit Hours - 3

This course examines the revolution of environmental law as a reactionary tool to the many global and national environmental threats. The course is a combination of lectures and seminar presentations by students. Topics covered include:
Development, sources, forms and principles of international environmental Law (IEL); International environmental issues and the legal response; IEL and global issues: Climate change, diminishing biodiversity, marine pollution, disposal of toxic and hazardous waste substances; Selected international conventions and protocols; Limitations of IEL and responsibilities of national legislations; Environmental law in Ghana- Act 490, Environmental assessment regulations (L.I 1652), implementation and enforcement challenges of environmental law in Ghana.

Credit Hours - 3

This course provides participating non-economists graduate students with an understanding of economic theory and its application to environmental management issues. Such topics as:
 Theory of the market – how markets are supposed to work, why markets fail, government intervention and government failure,
 Production theory – basic concepts, constrained and unconstrained optimizing behaviour, input demands, cost functions.
 Valuation of ecosystem goods and services – types of economic values, market and non-market valuation methods.
 Concept of sustainable development – conditions for sustainable development, operationalizing and measuring sustainable development, inter and intra generational sustainability and constraints to sustainable development.
 Environmental Policy making – policy cycle, outlines for policy formation and formulation.

Credit Hours - 3

The course covers the basics of Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) and HES management related to the petroleum industry. Course content includes: Environmental risk management and assessment; emission limits and control; Environmental monitoring and data management; Spill response; Site assessment, management and remediation; Health risk and impact assessment; Food and water hygiene; Medical surveillance/Industrial hygiene; Safety techniques for hazard and effect management; Process safety and hazards control; Hazard communication; Fire, tool and electrical safety; Noise and vibration; Radiation and radioactive sources; Construction and demolition; Excavation; Risk assessment and management; Planning and procedures; Emergency response; Performance management; Incident reporting & investigation; Audit; Management review.

Credit Hours - 3

Fundamentals of regenerative engineering: Tissue Exchange and Tissue Development, Elements of Tissue development. Cell growth and differentiation, Cell and tissue mechanism, cell adhesion, cell migration, cell aggregation and tissue equivalent. Regenerative medicine such as stem cell based therapy, scaffold design, proteins or genes delivery, roles of extracellular matrix, cell- materials interactions, angiogenesis, tissue transplantation, mechanical stimulus and nanotechnology.

Credit Hours - 3

Sustainable Engineering and Development Methods with consideration to the complete product and process lifecycle during the design stage will be discussed with different case studies. Establish a clear understanding of the role and impact of various aspects of engineering (design, technology, etc.) and engineering decisions on environmental, societal, and economic problems. Particular emphasis is placed on the potential trade-offs between environmental, social, and economic objectives.

Credit Hours - 3

This course presents an advanced treatment of energy systems and devices. These include active and passive devices for energy generation, transmission and storage. The energy systems include gas turbines, solar power generation, heat storing walls, wind turbines and hydro-turbines and biomass. Materials for energy distribution are also presented along with batteries and ultra-capacitors for energy storage.

Credit Hours - 3

This course presents an advanced treatment of the deformation and failure behaviour of materials. Following a review of stress and strain, the underlying mechanisms and mechanics of elasticity, plasticity, creep, fracture and fatigue will be introduced. The course will also present the fundamentals of fracture mechanics along with composites and toughening mechanisms. The course will conclude with examples of the applications of plasticity and grain boundary sliding processes to the processing of materials.

Credit Hours - 3

The optical, electrical and magnetic properties of materials and their exploitation in modern technologies will be discussed. Following a brief review of quantum mechanics, the principles of semi-conduction will be presented along with examples in inorganic semi-conductors. Method for calculation of wave functions, the course continues with investigation of how and why materials respond to different electrical, magnetic and electromagnetic fields and probes and study of the conductivity, dielectric function, and magnetic permeability in metals, semiconductors, and insulators. A survey of common devices such as transistors, magnetic storage media, and optical fibers concludes the semester.

Credit Hours - 3

Students will learn the concepts and applications of the laws of thermodynamics. Classical and statistical thermochemistry, with emphasis on important topics in materials science and engineering; including thermodynamics of solids, solution thermochemistry, heterogeneous equilibria of stable and metastable phases, multicomponent systems, coherent equilibria and strain effects, interfaces and absorption, polymer alloys and solutions.

Credit Hours - 3

Students will be introduced to the various lattices and structure of materials (crystalline and non-crystalline materials). Principles and applications of analytical techniques, imaging, diffraction and spectroscopy for materials characterization including crystal structures, texture formation, phase analysis will also be treated. Nano- and micro-structures of materials including defects and second phases will be covered. Bulk and
thin film characterisation techniques of materials using Hall measurements, XRD, XRF, SEM, TEM, XPS, AES etc.

Credit Hours - 3

The engineering project management course provides the tools necessary to manage a project. Topics include scope and value of project, project clarity and goals, project life cycle and organization, management process, process control and monitoring, project integration management, project scope management, project time management, cost management, communications management and reporting, project quality management, risk management, human resource management, procurement management, engineering economics including for-profit and not-for profit decision-making, present economy, uncertainty, and multiple attribute decisions.

Credit Hours - 3

This course will discuss the structure properties and processing of structural materials and mineral products in an environmentally-friendly way. Case studies will include
lifecycle analysis, energy balances and CO2 emissions. Approaches to carbon mitigation and materials remediation of mining, mineral processing, and oil and gas spills will also be presented. Finally the course will present case studies of plastic recycling and recycling of waste to wealth.

Credit Hours - 3

Students will study the different types of renewable and non-renewable energy sources and materials used to convert energy into useful applications. Non-renewable resources (fossil fuels) and certain aquifers and metal ores will be discussed. Renewable resources (hydropower, tidal power, and wave power), wind, and radiant energy from geothermal heat and solar energy will be treated as well. Materials for solid state and or green batteries, fuel cells and their current state of the art technologies will be treated.

Credit Hours - 3

This course deals with current novel developments of biomaterials used for clinical applications, and their design. Topics to be considered include synthesis, properties, and biocompatibility of metallic, ceramic, polymeric, composite, and biological materials and their applications for both hard and soft tissue replacement, and controlled drug delivery. Development of restorable materials will be considered in detail.

Credit Hours - 2

Phase transitions, linear and nonlinear diffusion, heat transport, nucleation and growth, solidification, ordering, spinodal decomposition, coarsening, reaction, massive transformation, diffusion limited and glass transitions principles will be treated. Phase diagrams will be used as an aid to for course delivery to illustrate the nature of phase during nucleation and growth of solids.

Credit Hours - 2

Students will learn to use the various tools in order to address issues in materials science research and become competent in numerical analysis. Principles of computation modelling, computer aided drawing, computation fluid dynamics, finite difference and finite volume methods, use of FLUENT, finite element modelling, principle of virtual work, uniaxial and planar finite elements, elastic and nonlinear analysis, designing a finite element problem, use of ANSYS will be covered. Techniques such as HF, DFT/LDA, Molecular dynamics and quantum Monte Carlo simulation will be covered.

Credit Hours - 2

This course discusses the properties of engineering materials with emphasizes on the correlation between their atomic and microscopic structure and their macroscopic properties. Topics include structural, mechanical, thermodynamic, and design related issues important to engineering applications. Design, identification of performance criteria, selection decisions aspects of materials engineering will be treated in detail. Other topics to be covered include Performance Efficiency formalisms; materials charts; sources of data. Selections for structural articles; metals, polymers, ceramics, and composites. Selections for coatings and surface treatments. Selection for electronic and optical articles. Materials Degradation etc.

Credit Hours - 3

In this course students will develop knowledge and skills concerning: the design and analysis of real-world algorithms employed in computational science and engineering applications, and performance optimization of applications using the best practices of algorithm engineering. It will cover the use of a variety of practical tools including MATLAB, random number generators, Monte Carlo simulations etc. Topic in Real world Algorithm and Algorithm Engineering will be discussed. Real-World Algorithms: Techniques to applications, algorithms for genomics: divide and conquer, cache-aware data structures, string algorithms, Sequence similarity searching: dynamic programming, string algorithms, local alignments, BLAST, parallel sorting by regular sampling, greedy algorithms, 3d surface construction, marching cubes, graph partitioning.

Credit Hours - 3

The advanced mathematics course provides the necessary applied mathematical and analytical tools useful for solving practical engineering problems. Topics include first ordinary differential equations and solutions, second order differential equations and higher order differential equations, series solution of ordinary differential equation including power series method, Bessel functions, Legendre function, and hyper-geometric functions, linear algebra and calculus including matrices, eigen-values eigen-vectors, vector differential calculus, divergence and curl vector fields, vector integral calculus including Green's theorem and Stoke's theorem, Laplace transforms, Fourier analysis of differential equations, partial differential equations including basic concepts, vibrating strings, D'Alembert solution, wave equation and heat equation.

Credit Hours - 3

Engineering Research Methods course highlights on the principle and developmental process for conducting effective research and documentation. Topics include research process, nature of contribution of research to theory development in the discipline, development of research proposals, design of questionnaire and interviewing techniques, content analysis, research report writing, quantitative and qualitative
research, measurement strategies, sources of data and collection procedures, literature survey, statistical evaluation of data and testing, interpretation and presentation of results, experimental research design forms and development processes, use of statistical software packages

Credit Hours - 3

Carbohydrates Metabolism: Digestion of carbohydrates, glycolysis and fate of pyruvate in different organisms; tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle; pentose phosphate pathway and fate of reduced coenzymes; catabolism of monosaccharides other than glucose; gluconeogenesis, Calvin Benson cycle, Cori cycle, glyoxylate cycle; glycogenesis and glycogenolysis; regulation of carbohydrate metabolism; Diseases of carbohydrate metabolism. Aerobic metabolism of pyruvate, starvation and obesity. The coenzyme role of B vitamins. Changes in nutritional requirement and metabolic rate in injury and disease. Lipids Metabolism: Digestion of triacylglycerols; the different lipases (lipoprotein lipase, hormone-sensitive lipase); fate of glycerol; beta-oxidation of fatty acids; fate of products (acetyl and propionyl CoA, ketone bodies, reduced coenzymes); synthesis of fatty acids triacylglycerol, cholesterol; regulation of metabolism. Protein Metabolism: Digestion of proteins, transamination, deamination and decarboxylation of amino acids and the fate of ammonia (urea cycle) and carbon skeleton; metabolism of specific amino acids (aromatic and sulphur-containing amino acids); synthesis of amino acids; in-born errors of amino acid metabolism; regulation of metabolism. Enzymes as biological catalyst: Enzyme kinetics and concept of rate-determining step. Enzyme specificity and allosteric regulation. Mechanisms of enzyme action and examples. Coenzymes and vitamins. Drugs and their effect on enzymes.