About The Speaker

Professor Yaw D. Yeboah is a retired tenured Professor from the Florida A&M University-Florida State University College of Engineering. Until stepping down in June of 2015, he had been the Dean of the College of Engineering; after moving from Penn State, where he was the Head of the Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering that run programs in Energy Business and Finance, Energy Engineering, Environmental Systems Engineering, Mining Engineering, and Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering. Prior to joining Penn State, he was Professor of Engineering and Associate Dean for Science and Engineering at Clark Atlanta University.

After completing his General Certificate of Education (GCE “O” and “A” Levels) at the Ghana Secondary Technical School at Takoradi, Ghana, in 1971, Prof. Yeboah received a scholarship to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where in June 1975 he became the first person to receive four degrees within four years from MIT: BS degrees in chemical engineering, chemistry and management, and a MS in chemical engineering. He subsequently received his doctorate in chemical engineering also from MIT. Prof. Yeboah has over 30 years of research (academic and industrial), teaching and project management experience.

Before going into academia, Prof. Yaw Yeboah worked at at the General Electric Corporate Research and Development Center. His research expertise covers such areas as catalysis, bioenergy, fuel cells and energy conversion, combustion and emission control, oilfield scale formation, nanomaterials and materials characterization. He has published widely in these areas. Some of his recent research projects include electrocatalysis/nanomaterials, catalytic gasification with eutectic salts, PEM fuel cells, hydrogen from biomass for transportation and stationary fuel cell power generation, fire spread behavior in liquid pools, and use of non-thermal plasma discharge for emission (NOx) control.

Prof. Yaw Yeboah is very passionate about his alma mater and sits on the Board of Trustees of GSTS Alumni Association of North America. He was Library Prefect at GSTS