Umass lowell graduate teaching assistant award

SUMMARY	I consider myself as a Structural Engineer, a Researcher, and an Educator with an entrepreneurial bent. I have special interests in structural design and modeling, structural health monitoring, reliability, and life-cycle cost-benefit analysis of civil engineering infrastructure systems. Furthermore, I am passionate about utilizing the skills I have acquired in both academia and industry to solve engineering problems and train the next generation of engineers.
TECHNICAL SKILLS & EXPERTISE	Nondestructive evaluation of concrete structures using synthetic aperture radar Experimental design Bridge design codes: AASHTO LRFD Bridge Design Specifications, AISC Manual, ACI 318-14, ASCE 7-16, ACI SP-017(14), ACI 314R-16, ASTM, IBC-2015 Construction Quality Assurance and Quality Control
	Ph.D. in Civil Engineering (Structures) \| University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA Dissertation title: Reliability-Based Condition Assessment of Reinforced Concrete Structures Using Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging Technique
May 2013
June 2008	BS. Civil Engineering \| Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana Thesis title: The Strength of Reinforced Concrete Beam Externally Bonded with FRP
	Condition assessment of concrete specimens and structures using SAR imaging technique Corrosion monitoring and detection using half-cell potential sensors Experimental design and training undergraduate researchers on how to use various sensors
RESEARCH PROJECTS (RESEARCH ASSISTANT)	Years of involvement: 2014 ~ 2017 Project title: VOTERS (Vehicle Onboard Traffic Embedded Roaming Sensors) Project (PI: Prof. M.L. Wang, North Eastern University, Co-PI: Prof. Tzuyang Yu), NIST, 2009~2014
RESEARCH PROJECTS (RESEARCH ASSISTANT)	Du, C., Owusu Twumasi, J., Tang, Q., Guo, X., Zhou, J., Yu, T., & Wang, X. (2018). All-Optical Photoacoustic Sensors for Steel Rebar Corrosion Monitoring. Sensors, 18(5), 1353 Tang, Q., Owusu Twumasi, J., Hu, J., Wang, X., & Yu, T. (2018, March). Finite element simulation of photoacoustic fiber optic sensors for surface corrosion detection on a steel rod. In Nondestructive Characterization and Monitoring of Advanced Materials, Aerospace, Civil Infrastructure, and Transportation XII (Vol. 10599, p. 105991N). International Society for Optics and Photonics. Owusu Twumasi, J., & Yu, T. (2017, June). Corrosion current level estimation of rust samples using inverse dielectric spectroscopy. In 2017 IEEE Electrical Insulation Conference (EIC) (pp. 404-407). IEEE. Owusu Twumasi, J., Le, V., Tang, Q., & Yu, T. (2016, April). Quantitative sensing of corroded steel rebar embedded in cement mortar specimens using ultrasonic testing. In Nondestructive Characterization and Monitoring of Advanced Materials, Aerospace, and Civil Infrastructure 2016 (Vol. 9804, p. 98040P). International Society for Optics and Photonics.
LIST OF CONFERENCE /SYMPOSIUM PRESENTATIONS	Conference name: The 7^th Advances in Cement-Based Materials (Cements 2016), Edwardsville, IL - 2016 Title of presentation: Electromagnetic Imaging of Concrete Specimen with Various Moisture Contents
SCHOLARSHIPS & PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS	Student Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), (2013-2019) Student Member, IEEE (2015 ~ 2019)
VOLUNTARY WORK	Open House Presentations, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, UMass Lowell (2013 ~ 2017)