Kumasi Technical University’s first department for automotive engineering, agricultural mechanisation and mechatronics, established in 2020.
The Department of Automotive and Agricultural Mechanization Engineering (AAMED) was established in 2020. Before that, these programmes were taught within Mechanical Engineering. Growing demand for specialised training in both fields made a separate department necessary.
AAMED is part of the Faculty of Engineering and Technology. Our programmes cover modern vehicles, farm machinery, automation, and the systems used in Ghana’s transport and food sectors.
Ghana needs engineers who understand the machines that move people and the machines that grow food. The department trains students for both, with practical work in every programme and links with industry, particularly Suame Magazine.
From a section within Mechanical Engineering to a department in its own right.
The Department of Mechanical Engineering was set up as one of the university’s pioneer engineering departments. It offered HND Mechanical Engineering with four options: Plant, Automotive, Production, and Metallurgy and Foundry.
Rising student numbers, and the growing importance of automotive technology and agricultural mechanisation, led the university to separate the Automotive and Agricultural Mechanization section from Mechanical Engineering. It became the Department of Automotive and Agricultural Mechanization Engineering.
Kumasi Technical University signed a memorandum of understanding with the Design and Technology Institute (DTI). Under the agreement, DTI refurbished and re-equipped the department’s automotive workshop at a cost of GH₵325,000. The workshop was commissioned as a Precision Quality (PQ) Model Centre on 13 December 2022. Twenty-three academic staff and instructors were also trained.
The department offers programmes at Diploma, HND, Bachelor of Engineering, Master’s and Doctor of Technology levels. The Bachelor of Engineering degrees are in Automotive Engineering, Agricultural Mechanization Engineering and Mechatronics Engineering. Practical training and cooperation with industry remain central to the teaching.
Study options run from pre-engineering to doctoral level. The postgraduate programmes are in Automotive Engineering.
For entry requirements and application details, please contact the department.
The Auto and Agric Mechanization Engineering Students Association (AAESA) represents the students of the department.
President, AAESA
Heads the AAESA executive and speaks for the students of the Department of Automotive and Agricultural Mechanization Engineering.
Practical training takes place in the department’s workshops, and Suame Magazine is close by.
Refurbished and re-equipped by DTI and commissioned as a Precision Quality (PQ) Model Centre in December 2022. Students use it for practical training with workshop tools and diagnostic equipment.
Engineering students have access to workshop facilities developed through the Ghana–China partnership.
Suame Magazine is one of the largest automotive industrial areas in West Africa. Its proximity gives students first-hand contact with the trade.
Graduates can work in industry, in agriculture, or run their own businesses.
Vehicle diagnostics, maintenance, assembly and quality control in workshops and vehicle plants.
Farm machinery, irrigation systems, post-harvest equipment and related support services.
Maintaining machinery in factories, transport companies and agro-processing plants.
Designing and making machine parts and small equipment.
Work on systems that combine mechanical, electrical and control components.
Running a workshop, a service centre, or a business that supports agriculture.
Questions about programmes, entry requirements or student activities can be sent to the department.
Current students can reach the AAESA executives through their class representatives or at the department.
See the executive team