Mehmet Cetin Kocak
Professor
Ankara University Chemical Eng.
Turkey
Biography
Prof. Koçak got B.Sc. (1975), M.Sc. (1976), and Ph. (1980) degrees respectively from Birmingham, Salford, and Aston Universities in England. After working at Ankara Nuclear Research and Training Center for 6 years he became a faculty at Ankara University in 1986. He has published 13 papers in reputed journals and a book chapter. He has participated in numerous international symposia. He is currently spending a sabbatical year at Beckman Institute of Illinois University, Urbana-Champaign. His doctoral work rendered a dynamic simulation package which pioneered simultaneous modularity via novel twice-round execution. He published several nonlinear equation solvers, two bearing his name.
Research Interest
Prof. Koçak teaches, researches, and applies numerical methods, modeling, simulation, experimental design, and programming. His work at Beckman Institute has involved application of least squares to fit a certain model to ramp-hold curves in nanoindentation with the aim to characterize viscoelastic materials. He is keen to learn new programming languages and platforms.