Faculty Executive Board

PROF. DR. Sertif DEMİR

Faculty Executive Board Member

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PROF. DR. Tahsin Çağrı ŞİŞMAN

Faculty Executive Board Member

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PROF. DR. Uğur Murat LELOĞLU

Faculty Executive Board Member

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ASSOC. PROF. DR. Ceyda AKTAN

Faculty Executive Board Member

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ASSOC. PROF. DR. Suat BEGEÇ

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ASSIST. PROF. DR. Meriç Hatice GÖKDALAY

Faculty Executive Board Member

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PROF. DR. Sertif DEMİR

Faculty Executive Board Member

Short Biography

PROF. DR. Tahsin Çağrı ŞİŞMAN

Faculty Executive Board Member

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PROF. DR. Uğur Murat LELOĞLU

Faculty Executive Board Member

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ASSOC. PROF. DR. Ceyda AKTAN

Faculty Executive Board Member

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ASSOC. PROF. DR. Suat BEGEÇ

Faculty Executive Board Member

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ASSIST. PROF. DR. Meriç Hatice GÖKDALAY

Faculty Executive Board Member

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PROF. DR. Sertif DEMİR

Faculty Executive Board Member

Short Biography

PROF. DR. Tahsin Çağrı ŞİŞMAN

Faculty Executive Board Member

Short Biography

PROF. DR. Uğur Murat LELOĞLU

Faculty Executive Board Member

Short Biography

ASSOC. PROF. DR. Ceyda AKTAN

Faculty Executive Board Member

Short Biography

ASSOC. PROF. DR. Suat BEGEÇ

Faculty Executive Board Member

Short Biography

ASSIST. PROF. DR. Meriç Hatice GÖKDALAY

Faculty Executive Board Member

Short Biography

PROF. DR. Sertif DEMİR

Faculty Executive Board Member

Short Biography

PROF. DR. Tahsin Çağrı ŞİŞMAN

Faculty Executive Board Member

Short Biography

PROF. DR. Uğur Murat LELOĞLU

Faculty Executive Board Member

Short Biography

ASSOC. PROF. DR. Ceyda AKTAN

Faculty Executive Board Member

Short Biography

ASSOC. PROF. DR. Suat BEGEÇ

Faculty Executive Board Member

Short Biography

ASSIST. PROF. DR. Meriç Hatice GÖKDALAY

Faculty Executive Board Member

Short Biography

PROF. DR. Sertif DEMİR

Faculty Executive Board Member

Short Biography

PROF. DR. Tahsin Çağrı ŞİŞMAN

Faculty Executive Board Member

Short Biography

PROF. DR. Uğur Murat LELOĞLU

Faculty Executive Board Member

Short Biography

ASSOC. PROF. DR. Ceyda AKTAN

Faculty Executive Board Member

Short Biography

ASSOC. PROF. DR. Suat BEGEÇ

Faculty Executive Board Member

Short Biography

ASSIST. PROF. DR. Meriç Hatice GÖKDALAY

Faculty Executive Board Member

Short Biography

PROF. DR. Sertif DEMİR

Faculty Executive Board Member

Short Biography

PROF. DR. Tahsin Çağrı ŞİŞMAN

Faculty Executive Board Member

Short Biography

PROF. DR. Uğur Murat LELOĞLU

Faculty Executive Board Member

Short Biography

ASSOC. PROF. DR. Ceyda AKTAN

Faculty Executive Board Member

Short Biography

ASSOC. PROF. DR. Suat BEGEÇ

Faculty Executive Board Member

Short Biography

ASSIST. PROF. DR. Meriç Hatice GÖKDALAY

Faculty Executive Board Member

Short Biography

Dr. Çetin Şentürk graduated from Ankara University with a B.Sc. Degree in Engineering Physics in 2000. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Middle East Technical University in Physics in 2003 and 2010, respectively. Upon completing his graduate studies, Dr. Şentürk continued his academic career by pursuing postdoctoral research for about two years at Feza Gursey Institute and Bogazici University in Istanbul. In the 2012-2013 and 2013-2014 academic years, he served as a part-time instructor in the Department of Physics at Yeditepe University. Subsequently, he worked for one year as a visiting research scientist in the Physics Department of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA. Before joining the University of Turkish Aeronautical Association in January 2017, for about one and half years, he also worked as a postdoctoral researcher and, at the same time, as a part-time instructor in the Physics Department of Bilkent University.

EDUCATION

2003-2010 Ph. D. in Physics
Department of Physics, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.

2001-2003 M.Sc. in Physics
Department of Physics, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.

1996-2000 B.Sc. in Engineering Physics
Department of Engineering Physics, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey.

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

09/2022- Professor, Department of Aeronautical Engineering, University of Turkish Aeronautical Association, Ankara, Turkey.

01/2018-09/2022 Associate Professor, Department of Aeronautical Engineering, University of Turkish Aeronautical Association, Ankara, Turkey.

01/2017-01/2018 Assistant Professor, Department of Aeronautical Engineering, University of Turkish Aeronautical Association, Ankara, Turkey.

09/2015-01/2017 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Physics, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey.

04/2014-04/2015 Visiting Research Scientist, Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA.

02/2013-01/2014 Part-Time Instructor, Department of Physics, Yeditepe University, İstanbul, Turkey.

01/2012-02/2013 Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Mathematics & Department of Physics, Doğuş University & Boğaziçi University, İstanbul, Turkey.

01/2010-04/2011 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Feza Gürsey Institute (Boğaziçi University), İstanbul, Turkey.

Kürşad Melih Güleren completed his BSc degree in Aerospace Engineering at Middle East Technical University, his MSc in Mechanical Engineering at Cumhuriyet University, and his doctorate in Mechanical Engineering at Manchester University. He received his associate professorship in the field of Aerospace Engineering. He worked at Cumhuriyet University, Turkish Aeronautical Association University, Anadolu University, Eskisehir Technical University, and Istanbul Aydin University, respectively. He currently continues his career as a Professor at Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Department of Aeronautical Engineering. He served in administrative positions such as Department Head, Deputy Dean and Dean. He worked as a consultant in the Hürkuş and TFX projects at Turkish Aerospace Industries. Güleren, who has two patents and two utility models in the field of aviation, conducts scientific studies in areas such as aeroacoustics, aerodynamics, flow control, optimization, numerical modelling, turbulence, turbomachinery, aircraft design and combustion.

EDUCATION

2003-2007 Ph. D. in Mechanical Engineering

Scool of MACE, Machester University, Manchester, UK

1999-2003 M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Cumhuriyet University, Sivas.

1994-1999 B.Sc. in Aerospace Engineering

Department of Aerospace Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara.

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2022- Professor, Department of Aeronautical Engineering, Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Eskişehir, Turkey

2021-2022 Professor, Department of Flight Training, Istanbul Aydin University, İstanbul, Turkey

2019-2021 Professor, Department of Flight Training, Eskisehir Technical University, Eskişehir, Turkey

2018-2019 Associate Professor, Department of Flight Training, Eskisehir Technical University, Eskişehir, Turkey

2016-2018 Associate Professor, Department of Flight Training, Anadolu University, Eskişehir, Turkey

2014-2016 Associate Professor, Department of Aeronautical Engineering, University of Turkish Aeronautical Association, Ankara, Turkey

2012-2014 Assistant Professor, Department of Aeronautical Engineering, University of Turkish Aeronautical Association, Ankara, Turkey

1999-2012 Research Assistant, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Cumhuriyet University, Sivas, Turkey.

EDUCATION

1978-1981 Ph. D. in Mechanical Engineering

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

1976-1978 M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara.

1971-1976 Sc. in Mechanical Engineering

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara.

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

11/2022- Chair, Department of Aeronautical Engineering, University of Turkish Aeronautical Association, Ankara, Turkey.

10/2022- Professor, Department of Aeronautical Engineering, University of Turkish Aeronautical Association, Ankara, Turkey.

10/2019-09/2021 Visiting Professor, School of Engineering and Architecture, SRH University Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.

12/1990-08/2020 Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.

06/2015-06/2019 Member of the Atomic Energy Comission, Turkish Atomic Energy Utility, Ankara, Turkey.

06/2012-03/2015 Member of the Advisory Board, Technology and Innovation Support Programs Department, Transport, Defence, Energy and Textile Technologies Group, Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey, Ankara, Turkey.

09/2002-12/2011 Member of Administrative Board, Institute for Applied Mathematics, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.

01/2002-11/2011 Member of Administrative Board, Center for Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.

01/2004-12/2005 Member of Technical Advisory Committee, Von Karman Institute, Belgium.

11/1984-12/1990 Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.

03/1985-01/1987 Assistant Chairman, Department of Aeronautical Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.

10/1983-11/1984 Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.

11/1982-09/1983 Teaching Assistant, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.

09/1981-06/1982 Visiting Professor, Department of Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennyslvania, U. S. A.

02/1979-08/1981 Teaching Assistant, Department of Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennyslvania, U. S. A.

09/1978-08/1981 Research Assistant, Department of Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennyslvania, U. S. A.

02/1977-08/1978 Assistant, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.

09/1974-02/1976 Student Assistant, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.

After graduating from Gazi University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Banking, Adnan Güzel, PhD, received his Master's and Doctorate degrees from the Money Banking Department of the Social Sciences Institute of Istanbul University.
He worked as an Inspector, Manager and President in private and public banks for about 27 years. Actively traded in money and capital markets, regulated and coordinated the buying and selling principles of investment products (stocks, government bonds, treasury bills, foreign currency bonds, eurobonds, repo, private sector debt instruments, bank bonds, mutual funds, futures, gold). He founded and managed investment centers and investment funds, and served as the chairman of the fund board for about 20 years. He worked in the field of corporate finance, carried out corporate management and investor relations, carried out portfolio management tasks of fixed income securities and stock portfolios and many mutual funds with different contents. As the Project Leader, he carried out the public offering of many companies, initiated the first company valuation, took part in the establishment of the Izmir Futures and Options Exchange, and took part in the commission established for the establishment of Product Specialized Exchanges. He was the coordinator of the Money and Capital Markets working group established under the Banks Association of Turkey and the Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency, a member of the Gold Working Group, and the head of the Securitization of Housing Loans working group, and was elected as an alternate member of the Ethics Committee of the Banks Association of Turkey. He took part in the establishment of many companies, established the first real estate investment trust company, and carried out control and coordination duties in order to ensure that 25 financial and non-financial Bank subsidiaries are managed in line with the principles of profitability and efficiency.
In addition to his active duties at the bank, he simultaneously served as the General Manager of Vakıf Real Estate Investment Trust, Atakule Real Estate Investment Trust and Taksim Otelcilik for more than 4 years. He has served as Chairman of the Board of Directors, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors, Member of the Board of Directors and Auditors at 12 different financial and non-financial companies since 1996. He is still a member of the Board of the Turkish Institutional Investor Managers Association, the Advisory Board of the Investor Magazine and a member of the Finance Association. He has attended many trainings in the field of banking and finance at home and abroad. Capital Markets holds advanced derivatives and corporate rating licenses. For more than five years, he made comments on financial markets, stock market, Turkish economy and banking on TRT Television, 2 days a week every week, and his current comments were published on the TRT homepage.

Dr. Ertan Zencir Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Elektrik-Elektronik Mühendisliği bölümünden 1995 ve 1997 yıllarında lisans ve yüksek lisans dereceleriyle mezun oldu. Doktora eğitimini Syracuse Üniversitesi (Syracuse, New York, A.B.D.) Elektrik Mühendisliği bölümünde 2003 yılında tamamladı. Doktora tez araştırması öncesinde Amerikan Hava Kuvvetleri Araştırma Laboratuvarları için düşük güç tüketen tek-taşlı mikrodalga geniş-bant entegre yükselteci ve yer altına nüfuz edebilen UHF anten tasarım ve üretimini gerçekleştirdi. Doktora tezi araştırma sürecinde NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratuvarları tarafından desteklenen “NASA Gezegenler Arası Robotik Misyonlar için Düşük Güçlü SOI (Silicon-on-Insulator) CMOS Alıcı-Vericisi” başlıklı projede Mars’a gönderilen robot araçların haberleşme birimlerinin minyatürize edilmesine yönelik entegre haberleşme alıcısı tasarımını uzman araştırmacı olarak gerçekleştirdi. Bu projedeki lider çalışmaları ve teknolojik katkılarından dolayı NASA Onur Grubu Başarı Ödülü’ne layık görüldü (2006). Doktora sonrasında 2004-2005 yılları arasında Wisconsin-Milwaukee Üniversitesi Elektrik Mühendisliği bölümünde Yrd Doç olarak RF/Analog entegre devre tasarımı konusunda araştırma ve öğretim yaptı. Endüstriyel deneyimini ilk olarak 2005-2006 arası kıdemli tasarımcı olarak çalıştığı Nokia Cep Telefonları Radio Frekans Entegre Devre tasarım grubunda -CDMA haberleşme standardı için CMOS/BiCMOS RF alıcı-verici tasarımı üzerine- edindi. 2006 yılından 2011 yılına kadar Broadcom Corp.’da kıdemli bilim adamı olarak çalıştı. RF geniş-bant grubundaki görev aldığı entegre devre ArGe projeleri arasında endüstrinin ilk çoklu-giriş çoklu-çıkış düşük gürültülü 0.18-µm BiCMOS uydu alıcısı yükselteci ve ilk 65-nm DOCSIS 3.0 entegre alıcısı da yer almaktadır. Endüstrinin ilk 40nm CMOS entegre doğrudan örnekleyen (Analog-Dijital çevirici tabanlı) tam-bant indirmeli anahtarlama modülü çipinin (Broadcom BCM4550 kodlu ürünü)sistem tasarım liderliğini yaptı. 2011-2012 arasında Tübitak Uzay Teknolojileri Araştırma Enstitüsü’nde danışman olarak çalıştı. Analog ve RF entegre devre tasarımı alanında yayınlanan SCI makaleleri, SCI/IEEE konferans bildirileri ve bir A.B.D. patenti vardır. Eylül 2012’den itibaren Türk Hava Kurumu Üniversitesi Mühendislik Fakültesi Elektrik-Elektronik Mühendisliği bölümünde Doktor Öğretim Üyesi olarak çalışmaktadır.

Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Middle East Technical University (2001)

Thesis Title: “Analysis of Transient Regimes in Solid Rocket Propulsion”

MSc. in Mechanical Engineering, Middle East Technical University (1995)

Thesis Title: “Aerothermochemical Erosion of Solid Rocket Graphite Nozzle Throats”

B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering, Middle East Technical University (1993)

Dr. Ak’s engineering activities are mainly focused on the development of missile and rocket systems. He has 28 years of experience in technology development, system engineering and project management in aerospace programs. In the technology development activities, he

conducted theoretical and experimental studies. His theoretical studies are mainly focused on following topics:

Numerical modeling of chemically reacting turbulent flows in rocket and air-breathing engines.

Numerical modeling of tri-sonic and hypersonic flows around rocket, missiles and space launch vehicles.

Dr. Ak has developed in-house Navier Stokes and Euler solvers for time dependent 3-D non-reacting and multi species chemically reacting turbulent flows in either Eulerian or mixed Eulerian-Lagrangian forms in unstructured cell vertex or cell centered approaches. Dr. Ak has implemented and validated the following advanced numerical techniques in the solvers:

Full Approximation Scheme (FAS) for agglomeration multigrid method with explicit Runge Kutta time stepping

First order and second order accurate Implicit Euler time stepping.
1. Sparse matrix solvers based on Generalized Minimum Residual Method and various non-stationary Krylov subspace methods
1. Sparse matrix solvers based on Gauss Seidel method
1. Sparse preconditioners for non-stationary Krylov Subspace methods
1. Automatic Domain Decomposition and parallelization by Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM) or Massage Passing Interface (MPI) libraries.
1. Time operator splitting for stiff systems.
Dr. Ak has been making contributions several open source computation fluid dynamics codes available in public domain. Recently he developed a conjugate heat transfer solver for aerodynamic heating analysis by the integration of compressible Navier Stokes Flow Solver of Stanford University SU² code with Elmer Finite Element Solver via Kd-Three algorithm on non-matching interface and loosely coupled settings.

Dr. Ak is also working on implementing various RANS and LES based multiphase turbulent combustion models for air breathing engines in OpenFoam Platform. Recently with Karaca, M, Gokalp I. and Dr. Ak numerically analyzed the effect of external pressure on the secondary break-up of droplets by using open source Basilisk code.

Dr. Ak has expertise in Linux systems, C++ and Fortran programming languages and shared & distributed memory architectures.

Dr. Ak’s experimental studies are mainly focused on following topics:

In 1994, Dr. Ak visited Penn State University High Pressure Combustion Lab as a part of the NATO-AGARD project. During that visit, he used the pressure and temperature controlled windowed strand burner setup to measure the burn rates of double base gun propellants at various pressures and temperatures. He designed similar setups and installed them both in TUBITAK SAGE and MKEK Barutsan Facilities. Various composite solid propellant and double base propellant linear burn rates were measured in those setups and used in various solid rocket development projects.

Dr. Ak contributed to measuring of erosive burning of solid propellants from the test motors via indirect strain gage measurement methodology. The models were used to design low port to throat area ratio highly loaded solid rocket motors for spin stabilized artillery rockets.

Dr. Ak took responsibility in establishment of solid rocket and turbo jet test rigs in TUBITAK SAGE. The High Enthalpy Combustion Laboratory project was also initiated under his supervision, while he was in charge of the propulsion division in TUBITAK SAGE. The specification for the laboratory was written together with Dr. Iskender GOKALP who was the director of the CNRS Institute on Combustion, Aerothermal Sciences. The laboratory was taken into service and various test setups were commissioned during his existence in TUBITAK SAGE.

Dr. Ak also took responsibility in work definition preparation and selection of the subcontractor for the wing icing testing for a missile project. He visited the icing facilities in Canada, NRC and prepared a technical report and approved the facility for testing.