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EDUCATION

Ph. D. Mechanical Engineering, January 1999 Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA MS Mechanical Engineering, February 1990 Firat University, Elazig, Turkey BS Mechanical Engineering, May 1987 Firat University, Elazig, Turkey

 
 
 

EMPLOYMENT

1999 – Present.....Harran University, Sanliurfa, Turkey Vice Dean, Engineering Faculty (since April 2000) Acting Chair, Electrical & Electronics  Eng. Dep. (since Sept. 2001) Chairman, Mechanical Engineering Department (April 1999-Sept.2000) Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department (since April 1999) Sep 1994 - Feb 1999....Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA Project Assistant: ME & Naval Research Lab Teaching Assistant: Thermodynamics 104, Fluid Mechanics 231 Supervisor: Part-time (non-academic) 1988 – 1993.....Firat University, Elazig Turkey Research Assistant Teaching Assistant: Thermodynamics I-II, Instrumentation in Eng July 1982 - March 1988.....Turkish National Railway Company, Elazig, Turkey Mechanical Engineer /Workshop Shift Manager/Locomotive Licensed-Driver (non-academic)

 
 
 

COURSES TAUGHT (as a Faculty)

Undergraduate Level Thermodynamics I & II, Heat Transfer, Technique of HVAC, Experimental Instrumentation Graduate Level Advanced Thermodynamics, Advanced Fluid Mechanics, Heat and Mass Transfer

 
 

PROJECTS INVOLVED

• As a project director The Analysis of Floor-Heating System for Broiler Farms and Investigation of Its Usage On Broiler Performance, funded by Harran University, Sanliurfa / Turkey  • As a project assistant Thermal oxidation of the thin films, funded by Naval Research Lab, Project Director: Fazil Erdogan, G. Whitney Snyder Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics Department, Lehigh University, Bethlehem/ Pennsylvania. • As an executive project assistant Heat-pipe application for a parabolic-trough collector with solar tracking system, Project Director: Kazim Pihtili, Professor of Mechanical Engineering Department, funded by Firat University, Elazig / Turkey.

AWARDS/ DISTINCTION

Post-Doctoral Fellowship by TUBITAK-NATO B Program for conducting research at MIT Hatsopoulos Fluid Lab., Cambridge, MA, USA Ph.D. Scholarship* byTurkish Higher Educational Council for pursuiding graduate study at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA *Achieved based on a nationwide selection examination (1994 - 1998). Graduated with the third highest GPA out of 400 entrees in Faculty of Engineering and with the second highest GPA out of 80 entrees in Department of Mechanical Engineering, Firat University, Turkey (1987)

 
 

MEMBERSHIPS

Sigma XI (since 1998) Turkish Society of Thermal Science and Technique (since 1991) Turkish Society Of Mechanical Engineers (since 1988)