Aerospace Engineering Program (AEP) is a graduate program started in 2001 as one of the six selected engineering topics covered by the Center for Advanced Technologies in Engineering.
The program is established under an infrastructure project funded by the Turkish Prime Ministry State Planning Organization. The program aims to improve aerospace graduate education by focusing on experimental a 424x233e nd computational fluid dynamics and to provide a basis for advanced research in these areas.
The mission of the pragram is to achieve project based graduate education, to enhance R&D activities in cooparation with private and military institutions, and to become a center of excellence in aerodynamics and fluid mechanics. As a result of attractive employement conditions and research environment offered to students, brain migration is expected to decrease and therefore the graduates will fulfill the need for experts that are saught especially by the aerospace industry for employment.
Current Staff
The program was established with 15 core members, 7 of them Professors, 2 Associate Professors, and 3 Assistant Professors. The expertise of the academic members is mostly in the context of Experimental and Computational Fluid Dynamics. Among the staff many pursued their graduate education abroad and received scholarships from recognized institutions. Two professors work part-time in institutes of Turkish Scientific and Technical Research Foundation and one is a member of Turkish Scientists Council. The program supports its academic staff, including its Ph.D. students, to keep constant contact with recognized international research centers and groups and to conduct joint research projects.
Center for Advanced Technologies in Engineering
Aerospace Engineering Program
Maslak 34469,
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: +90 212 285 3140
Fax: +90 212 285 33139
https://uubf.itu.edu.tr/~tam
The program consists of 6 compulsory and 18 elective courses, nearly 80% thaught in English. The program aims to stay up to date in terms of course contents and research topics covered. One of the courses, titled Research in Aerospace Enginnering, consists of individual seminars featuring invited international scientists.
5 graduate students enrolled in the program in 2001 and have been assigned to be research asisstants. There are currently 13 registered students each involved in ongoing research projects and sponsored either by research assistantships or industrial projects.
Laboratories and Equipment
The research conducted in the program benefits from the facilities of ITU Trisonic Research Center and supercomputing facilities of ITU.
Experimental studies are conducted in 3 subsonic and 2 supersonic wind tunnels of ITU Trisonic Research Center. ITU Trisonic Wind Tunnel especially serves for ongoing defense and international research projects. The experimental equipment are renewed and modernized with the program and research funds; a steoroscopic PIV (Particle Image Velocimetry) system, a three-dimensional LDA (Laser Doppler Anemometry) and CTA (Constant Temperature Anemometry) systems, along with other flow visualization equipments and data acquisitions systems, will be in use by the beginning of 2003.
Studies of Computational Fluid Dynamics are currently performed on several shared and distributed memory paralel computers. Various in-house codes are used and being developed for efficient solution of realistic problems. Additionally, an extensive library of comercially developed computational analysis tools is available for application purposes.
Examples to current projects and international cooperations:
Aeronautical R&D Project on Helicopter Design and Manufacturing, funded by the Turkish Prime Ministry State Planning Organization, in cooperation with Georgia Institute of Technology, U.S.A.
NATO-RTO Project on Shock Wave and Boundary Layer
Interactions, focusing on supersonic vortex breakdown on delta wings, in
cooperation with ONERA /
Research Interests
Example topics of research interests are:
Topics of thematic priority for NoE (Network of Excellence) and IP (Integrated Projects) that ITU Aerospce Engineering Program of Center for Advanced Technologies in Engineering would like to participate in:
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