Kwame Awuah-Offei is currently the Union Pacific/Rocky Mountain Energy Professor in Mining Engineering at Missouri University of Science & Technology. He holds a PhD from Missouri University of Science & Technology (Missouri S&T) and a BS (Hons) from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology, Ghana. He has over 16 years of research, teaching, and consulting experience. Dr. Awuah-Offei has extensive experience in modeling and optimization of mining systems for sustainability. His current research interests include modeling and optimization of mining systems, design and management of sustainable mining systems, mining equipment performance evaluation, and earthmoving equipment-formation interactions.