Senyo Opong selected for 2021 Management Award | AIChE

Senyo Opong selected for 2021 Management Award

[June 13, 2021] Senyo Opong was selected as the recipient of this year’s Management Award. The award will be presented at the AIChE Annual Meeting to be held in November 2021 in Boston, Massachusetts.


Senyo Opong is the Engineering Technology Leader for DuPont where he has worked for more than 30 years. He is responsible for strategic leadership and stewardship of DuPont’s critical engineering competencies, the corporate Field Engineering and Supply Chain Development Program, and the corporate Capital Center of Excellence. Prior to his current role, Dr. Opong served as the Global Engineering Manager and led the Chemical & Bioprocess Engineering, and the Particle Technology groups of 40+ industry-leading engineering consultants and principal investigators.

Dr. Opong held several other leadership roles including Research Manager, PhD Staffing Manager, and Manufacturing Technology Manager. Before taking on leadership assignments, he spent ten years as a Chemical Engineering Consultant providing consulting services in mass and heat transfer, and process modeling and simulation, and nearly three years as a Field Engineer involved in distributed control systems design, specification, and implementation.