He was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2004 for contributions to the fundamental understanding of interfacial phenomena in leaching and solvent extraction.
[2] Immediately after graduating, Osseo-Asare was appointed to the technical staff at Amax Engineering, where he worked on extraction and refinement of nickel and cobalt.
[citation needed] In 1997 Osseo-Asare was awarded the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers (AIME) James Douglas Gold Medal “for his contributions to the fundamental understanding of interfacial phenomena in leaching, solvent extraction, and particle synthesis,”.
[8] Osseo-Asare spent 2000 as a visiting professor in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Martin Luther King Jr.
Here he incorporated African proverbs into his materials science curriculum, such as “Ogya ne atuduro nna faako - Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together,”.