IEEE Student Member 2000, IEEE Member 2007

  • Assistant Professor, Dept. of Electrical & Biomedical Eng. @ University of Nevada Reno, August 2008 - present
  • Senior Consultant Electrical Engineer, Nexant Inc., Software & Information Systems, August 2006 - August 2008
  • Ph.D. Student, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Eng. @ TAMU*, January 2002 - December 2006 

*      (defended in March 2006, dissertation cleared in August 2006) 

*      College Station, Texas, USA

*      in Electrical Engineering [ html ]

*      Advisor:  Prof. Ali Abur

*      Dissertation Title: Novel techniques in fault location, voltage profile calculation and visualization of transients

  • Research Assistant, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Eng. @ TAMU, January 2002 - May 2006
  • Lab. Instructor (Teaching Assistant), Dept. of Electrical and Computer Eng. @ TAMU
    • ELEN 459 Power System Fault Analysis and Protection Lab., Spring 2005
        • Three Phase Circuits, transmission line parameters, transmission line modeling, transformers, three phase transformers, p.u. system, network matrices, unbalanced operation, symmetrical components, fault analysis, sequence networks, fault analysis and protection, system protection. Laboratory assignments include the use of ATP Line Constants Calculations routine and MATLAB Power System Blockset MERIT 2000 routines, a single phase transformer experiment to determine the parameters, a three phase transformer experiment to understand the operation and a three phase synchronous machine experiment to obtain the sequence networks of the machine. 
    • ELEN 460 Power System Operation and Control Lab., Fall 2004
        • Review of power, power factor and pu system, network matrices and network solutions, power flow formulation and solution methods, large power system studies, AGC and new energy markets, power system stability. Laboratory assignments include the use of MATLAB Power System Blockset libraries, Power Education Toolbox (PET) to understand the power flow and angle stability concepts, two synchronous generator experiments, first to derive the equivalent circuit of the machine and second to demonstrate the effect of excitation control on the terminal voltage and reactive power generation of the generator as the load is changed.
  • Research Assistant, Dept. of Electrical Eng. @ ITU**, December 1998 - December 2001
  • Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Electrical Eng. @ ITU, December 1998 - December 2001
    • Freshman Level: 
      • Intro. to Scientific and Eng. Computation - ANSI C (3 semesters)
      • Technical Drawing (3 semesters) 
      • Linear Algebra (1 semester) 
    • Senior Level:
      • Power Transmission & Distribution System Design Project (3 semesters)
      • Electrical Installation Laboratory (3semesters)
      • Unbalanced Operations of Electrical Power Systems (1 semester)
      • High Voltage Techniques 1-2 (2 semesters each)
      • High Voltage Laboratory (3 semesters)
      • High Voltage Circuit Breakers (2 semesters)
  • Master of Science, ITU, June 2001

*      Istanbul, Turkey

*      in Electrical Engineering, IST*** [ html ]

*      Advisor: Prof. Hasan Dag 

*      Thesis Title: Power system transient stability analysis using detailed model of the generators 

  • Bachelor of Science, ITU, June 1998 

*      Istanbul, Turkey

*      in Electrical Engineering [ html ]

*      Advisor: Prof. Hasan Dag

*      Graduation Project Title: A study on renewable energy sources: application of sun & wind power in Turkey

  • High School & Secondary School & Primary School, Yukselis Private College, June 1994

*      Ankara, Turkey

*      Science/Math Track

*   TAMU: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA [ html ]
**  ITU:     Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, [ html ]
***I.S.T. :  Institute of Science and Technology, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey  [ html ] 

Last update: August 28th , 2008