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Prof. Dr. CİHAN KARATAŞ – Director of the Institute of Science

Was born in Ankara/Ayaş and graduated from Ankara Atatürk Lycee. Received his M.S. and B.S. degrees both from  Middle East Technical Universıty, METU, Department of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering. Ph.D. :  State University of New York at Buffalo, SUNY, Mechanical  Engineering, Center for Materials Processing.

Worked as research/development engineer at Combustion Engineering, Windsor, Connecticutt  and  Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories, Berkeley, California. Has worked at METU Materials and Metallurgical Engineering, Hacettepe University Nuclear Energy Engineering, Kastamonu University Materials Science and Nanotechnology Engineering as an academician. He has been the Director of OSB-1 Sincan Vocational School, Hacettepe University.

Dr. Karataş as of 1-May-2018 has 72 Science Citation Index (SCI) Publications with total of 650  citations. The “h-index” for these publications is 14. This means that of the 72 documents considered for the h-index, 14 have been cited at least 14 times. He is also author of a book chapter at the book  “Laser Surface Engineering Processes and Applications”, Woodhead Publishing-2016, Editor: Jonathan Lawrence.

KPDS English Grade = 94/100. He has total  13   granted  patents  by  “United States Patent and Trademark Office”.

Research Interests : Transport Phenomena,  Laser Assisted Materials Processing (Laser Cutting, Laser Welding, Laser Cladding, Laser Heat Treatment…),  Selective Laser Sintering, Rapid Prototyping, Kinetics of Solid-Gas Reaction, Composites, Nuclear Fuel and Materials…

Telephone: 0312 589 6129

Office: F 168

E-Mail:  ckaratas@thk.edu.tr

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Assist.Prof. Dr. Reza AGHAZADEH – Deputy Head of Department

Dr. Reza Aghazadeh was born in Urmiye of west Azerbaijan, Iran. He earned his BSc degree in Mechanical Engineering from Iran University of Science and Technology (February 2008). He then received his MSc and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Middle East Technical University, respectively in September 2013 and September 2017. His MSc and PhD research includes modeling of functionally graded micro-beams and micro-plates. In 2008, his bachelor’s thesis was chosen as the best published thesis in Iran by Iranian Society of Mechanical Engineers. He has been working on various projects that require expertise on structural analysis, computational mechanics, vibration, control systems and data acquisition systems. In University of Turkish Aeronautical Association, first he started to work as a lecturer in Aeronautical Engineering Department in 2015 and since December 22, 2017, he has been continuing his academic career as an assistant professor in Mechatronics Engineering Department.

Research Interest: Mechanics of micro and nano structures, Structural Analysis, Vibration, Computational Mechanics, Control Systems

Phone:   0312 589 6132
Office      : 163
e-mail: raghazadeh@thk.edu.tr

 

Assoc.Prof.Dr. Raziye MERT

Dr. Raziye Mert is Associate Professor at University of Turkish Aeronautical Association, Mechatronics Engineering Department. Dr. Raziye Mert graduated from Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Mathematics, in 2002 with a second degree. After, she received her Ph.D. degree from Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Mathematics, in 2010 under the Integrated Doctorate Program. She worked as a Research Assistant at Middle East Technical University between 2002 and 2008 and as a Lecturer at Çankaya University between 2009 and 2010. She also served as an Assistant Professor at Çankaya University between 2010 and 2015. She has been working at University of Turkish Aeronautical Association since 2015. She was awarded by 2214-International Research Fellowship Programme (for PhD Students) and 2219-International Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Programme by TÜBİTAK. She was named Associate Professor in 2015.

Research Interest: Ordinary Differential Equations, Difference Equations, Dynamic Equations on Time Scales,  Fractional Calculus, Oscillation and Stability Analysis

Phone: +90 312 589 6206
Office      : 145

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Assist.Prof.Dr. Abdellatif BABA

Dr. Abdellatif BABA graduated from Aleppo University, Faculty of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, dept. of Automatic & Industrial Electronics in 1999 with honors (3rd in a class of ’80). For one year (2000), he worked as an engineer in the domain of industrial machines programming in (Italy, Lebanon, and Syria). In (2001) he started his work as research assistant. Subsequently, he departed for France via “Syrian – French Exchange Students Program”. He received an M.Sc. degree in Automatic systems (2003) and a Ph.D. in Robotics & Artificial Intelligence (2007) from Paul SABATIER University (Toulouse III), Laboratory for Analysis and Architecture of Systems (LAAS – CNRS).

The next five years, he worked as an assistant professor in several public and private universities. Since October (2013) he has been continuing his academic life in the Faculty of Engineering in the University of Turkish Aeronautical Association.

 Phone: 444 84 58
Office      : 163
E-mail: ababa@thk.edu.tr
 Assist.Prof.Dr. Habib GHANBARPOURASL 
Dr. Habib GhanbarpourAsl was born in west Azerbaijan of Iran, He received his B.Sc. degree in Aerospace engineering (1996) and M.Sc. degree in Aerospace engineering-flight dynamics and control (1999) from the Amirkabir University of Technology. He received his Ph.D. degree in aerospace engineering-flight dynamics and control of the Sharif University of Technology (2007) as a first rank Ph.D. student. He worked in space research center between 1997-1999 years and in the aerospace organization between 1999-2011 years. Also, He was the founder of the Privet Corporation with the name of Tarrah Gostare ATA and was manager and designer of many projects between 2006-2013 years. He worked between 2013-2016 years in the Sharif University of Technology as an assistant professor. He joined the University of Turkish Aeronautical Association as an assistant professor in February 2016.
His main expertise is Guidance, Control, and Navigation in general but he also is interested in robotics, machine vision, Mechatronics, unnamed vehicles, especially with application in space or aerospace systems.
He taught Robotics, Nonlinear Control, Estimation Theory, System Identification Flight Control, Flight Mechanics, Attitude and Orbit Determination, Satellite Design, Inertial Navigation, Integrated Navigation, Gyroscopic Systems, Inertial Sensors, Aircraft and Spacecraft Instruments, Stable Platform Navigation, Advanced Guidance, Applied Remote Sensing, Application of Nonlinear Filters in Target Tracking, Advanced Mathematics, Dynamics, Orbital Mechanics, Statistic and Probability for Engineering, in different universities.
Phone: 444 84 58 – 6125
Office      : 167
E-mail: hghanbarpourasl@thk.edu.tr

 

Assist.Prof. Dr. Masoud LATIFI-NAVID 

Masoud Latifi-Navid was born in Ardebil, Iran in 1982. He received his BS degree in Mechanical Engineering (2007) then continued his academic education in Mechatronics and received his MS degree from Sharif university of Technology (2009), Iran. He worked as a researcher in the School of Cognitive Sciences at the Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran, Iran (2008- 2009). He is currently a Ph.D. student of Mechanical Engineering (Mechatronics) at Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. Since January of 2014  he has been working as  research assistant in the Faculty of Engineering in the University of Turkish Aeronautical Association
Research Interest: Control systems, Robotics, Mechatronics, Haptic systems, Artificial intelligence and Image/Video processing are his area of interests.
Phone: +90 312 589 6126
Office      : 177

 

Lecturer Matin GHAZIANI 

Matin GHAZIANI was born in GonbadeKavoos (Iran), in 1982. He graduated from Khajeh Nasir Toosi University of Technology (KNTU), Dept. of Mechanical Engineering in 2006. For four years (2004-2008), he worked as a mechanical engineer at Pars Robotics Groups. He participated in several RoboCup competitions and received several awards at the RoboCup Rescue Robot League. For three years (2007-2010), he worked as a technical manager at a company that provided service for pneumatic and hydraulic systems. He received a M.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Middle East Technical University (2013).
He is currently a Ph.D. student of Mechanical Engineering at Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. Since December of 2013 he has been working as a lecturer in the Faculty of Engineering in the University of Turkish Aeronautical Association
 Phone: +90 312 589 6128
Office     : 177

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