Journal Boards

Editor in Chief

H. Serdar Yücesu
Prof. Dr. H. Serdar Yücesu
GAZI UNIVERSITY, FACULTY OF TECHNOLOGY, DEPARTMENT OF AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING, AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING PR.
Development of Vocational Education , Technical, Vocational and Workplace Education, Internal Combustion Engines, Automotive Combustion and Fuel Engineering, Automotive Engineering (Other)

Co-Editor in Chief

Hamit Solmaz
Prof. Dr. Hamit Solmaz
Gazi University, Faculty of Technology, Automotive Engineering Department
Automotive Combustion and Fuel Engineering, Internal Combustion Engines, Automotive Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Energy, Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics

Section Editors

Murat Altın
Automotive Safety Engineering, Automotive Engineering Materials, Vehicle Technique and Dynamics, Finite Element Analysis
Alper Calam
Prof. Dr. Alper Calam
Gazi University
Mechanical Engineering, Internal Combustion Engines, Automotive Combustion and Fuel Engineering

Alper Calam is a Full Professor at Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey. He received his MSc and PhD in 2011 and 2018 respectively at Gazi University. He has published many papers at various international journals. His research areas include SI and CI engines, low temperature combustion modes (PCCI, PPCI, HCCI, RCCI etc.), emission reduction, biofuels and fuel additives.

Bülent Kılınç
Asst. Prof. Dr. Bülent Kılınç
SAKARYA UYGULAMALI BİLİMLER ÜNİVERSİTESİ, ARİFİYE MESLEK YÜKSEKOKULU
Material Characterization, Resource Technologies, Plating Technology, Corrosion
Mehmet Murat Topaç
Vehicle Technique and Dynamics, Automotive Safety Engineering, Machine Design and Machine Equipment, Optimization Techniques in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Product Design
M.M. Topaç is a senior researcher in automotive engineering at Dokuz Eylül University Department of Mechanical Engineering.

Main research topics:

• Vehicle engineering / Automotive systems,
• Vehicle design,
• Chassis systems engineering,
• Vehicle suspensions & steering,
• Ground vehicle dynamics,
• Failure analysis and prevention in vehicle design,
• Vehicle structures,
• Applied optimisation in vehicle engineering,
• Defence engineering,
• Electromobility.

Current research interests:

• Chassis systems design for special purpose vehicles: multi-axle land platforms, heavy-duty commercial vehicles, articulated vehicles / trailers, tracked vehicles,
• Alternative urban transportation: design of electric vehicles / urban electric microcars,
• Failure analysis and optimal design of vehicle components and structures,
• Dynamics of special purpose land vehicles,
• Modelling, design, optimisation and manufacturing of vehicle suspensions, axle systems and steering systems (including multi-axle steering systems for special purpose land vehicles and trailers),
• Design and optimisation of chassis and vehicle body structure,
• Powertrain modelling / Drivetrain dynamics.

Since 2006, he has been serving as a project consultant for automotive industry. He has been directing projects related to design and optimisation of suspensions, steering linkages, chassis, body and the other mechanical subsystems of wheeled vehicles. Moreover, he is investigating the effects of the design parameters of suspension and steering systems on handling behaviour and dynamics of wheeled and tracked land vehicles. He is also interested in topology optimisation-based lightweight design applications in vehicle engineering.

He is a member of SAE International.
Yanan Camaraza-medina
Prof. Dr. Yanan Camaraza-Medina
University of Guanajuato
Heat Transfer in Automotive, Experimental Methods in Fluid Flow, Heat and Mass Transfer

Dr. Yanan Camaraza-Medina is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Guanajuato, Mexico. He received his M.Sc. in thermal engineering from the Universidad de Matanzas “Camilo Cienfuegos” in 2011 and the M.Sc. in electrical engineering from the Universidad Central de Las Villas “Marta Abreu” in 2015. He received his Ph.D. (Doctor in Technical Sciences) from the Universidad Central de Las Villas “Marta Abreu” in 2019. His research interests include problems of the heat transfer and fluid mechanics, with a special focus on thermal radiation, convective heat transfer and numerical modeling of thermal processes. He is a member of Editorial Advisory Board of three Scopus Indexed Journals, Mathematical Modelling of Engineering Problems (IIETA), Journal Européen des Systèmes Automatisés (IIETA), Recent Patents on Engineering (Bentham Science). Dr. Camaraza-Medina is the author and coauthor of more than 60 papers and several books.

İlyas Uygur
Prof. Dr. İlyas Uygur
Duzce University
Tribology, Material Design and Behaviors, Solid Mechanics, Biomaterial , Aerospace Materials, Automotive Engineering Materials, Powder Metallurgy, Metals and Alloy Materials, Composite and Hybrid Materials, Physical Metallurgy, Corrosion
Pak Kin Wong
Prof. Pak Kin Wong
University of Macau
Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Energy, Internal Combustion Engines, Automotive Combustion and Fuel Engineering, Vehicle Technique and Dynamics

Ir Prof Pak Kin Wong received the Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, in 1997. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Electromechanical Engineering and Dean of Graduate School, University of Macau. He is also the Fellow of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers and Chartered Fellow of Chartered Association of Building Engineers, U.K. His research interests include automotive engineering, intelligent medical energy, fluid power engineering and mechanical vibration. He has published over 435 scientific papers. 308 out of 435 are refereed journal papers. 
 

Material Design and Behaviors, Manufacturing Processes and Technologies (Excl. Textiles)
Serdar Halis
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Serdar Halis
PAMUKKALE UNIVERSITY, FACULTY OF TECHNOLOGY
Automotive Combustion and Fuel Engineering, Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics, Internal Combustion Engines, Energy
Meral Özarslan Yatak
Control Theoryand Applications, Photovoltaic Power Systems, Fuzzy Computation, Information and Computing Sciences
Fatih Şahin
Prof. Dr. Fatih Şahin
Gazi University,Ankara,Turkey
Automotive Engineering, Engineering, Embedded Systems, Electrical Engineering, Hybrid and Electric Vehicles and Powertrains, Automotive Mechatronics and Autonomous Systems, Automotive Engineering (Other), Information and Computing Sciences
Gang Li
Asst. Prof. Dr. Gang Li
Mississippi State University
Dynamics, Vibration and Vibration Control, Hybrid and Electric Vehicles and Powertrains, Wind Energy Systems, Mechatronic System Design

Dr. Gang Li is an Assistant Professor at Michael W. Hall School of Mechanical Engineering at Mississippi State University. His research interests include the fields of renewable energy technologies, applied artificial intelligence, dynamics and vibration, control theory, condition monitoring algorithms, structural health monitoring, and life cycle assessment, and involve AI for engineering, numerical simulation, experimental validation, and industrial application. Dr. Li is a recipient of the NSF EPSCoR Research Fellow Award and DOE EnergyTech UP Faculty Explorer Award. Dr. Li's research has been funded by NSF, DOE, the Maryland Energy Innovation Institute's Energy Innovation Seed Grant, the Maryland Technology Development Corporation’s Maryland Innovation Initiative (MII) Grant, the Maryland Offshore Wind Energy Research (MOWER) Challenge Grant Program, General Electric (GE), and Baltimore Gas and Electric (BGE).  Dr. Li is a member of ASME, IEEE, and SAE International.

Ramazan Şener
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ramazan Şener
BANDIRMA ONYEDİ EYLÜL ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Automotive Combustion and Fuel Engineering, Internal Combustion Engines, Optimization Techniques in Mechanical Engineering, Gas Dynamics, Energy Generation, Conversion and Storage (Excl. Chemical and Electrical), Computational Methods in Fluid Flow, Heat and Mass Transfer (Incl. Computational Fluid Dynamics)

Dr. Ramazan Şener is an expert in thermofluids, CFD and ICEs. He earned his PhD at Marmara University focusing on engine performance improvement and emissions reduction using advanced simulation tools and experimental methods. He also had the opportunity to conduct his research at the University of Catania, Italy. He is currently an Associate Professor at Bandirma Onyedi Eylul University, where he teaches and conducts research in thermofluids, optimization, ICEs, and renewable energy systems.

Çağdaş Hisar
Dr. Çağdaş Hisar
GAZI UNIVERSITY
Power Electronics, Hybrid and Electric Vehicles and Powertrains
Faruk Emre Aysal
Asst. Prof. Dr. Faruk Emre Aysal
GİRESUN ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Machine Theory and Dynamics, Vehicle Technique and Dynamics, Numerical Methods in Mechanical Engineering, Optimization Techniques in Mechanical Engineering

Faruk Emre Aysal received his B.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Pamukkale University in 2011 and his M.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Afyon Kocatepe University in 2014, where he focused on vehicle dynamics and the simulation and modeling of vehicle transmissions. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Afyon Kocatepe University in 2020, where he developed algorithms for solving nonlinear engineering problems using the Differential Quadrature Method (DQM). He worked as a Research Assistant in the Department of Automotive Engineering at Afyon Kocatepe University between 2012 and 2021, and served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechatronics Engineering at the same university from 2021 to 2024. Since 2024, he has been working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Giresun University. His research interests include vehicle technologies, computational methods, optimization techniques, dynamic system modelling, suspension systems, machine learning applications in engineering, and advanced simulation techniques.

A. Onur Özdemir
Assoc. Prof. Dr. A. Onur Özdemir
GAZİ ÜNİVERSİTESİ, TEKNOLOJİ FAKÜLTESİ
Composite and Hybrid Materials, Automotive Engineering, Internal Combustion Engines, Mechanical Engineering

Editorial Board

VA
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Vinod Ayyappan
King Monbgkut's University of Technology North Bangkok
Automotive Engineering Materials
Duygu İpci
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Duygu İpci
Gazi University, Technology Faculty, Department of Automotive Engineering
Automotive Engineering, Internal Combustion Engines, Heat Transfer in Automotive, Computational Methods in Fluid Flow, Heat and Mass Transfer (Incl. Computational Fluid Dynamics), Aerodynamics (Excl. Hypersonic Aerodynamics)
HC
Power Plants, Photovoltaic Power Systems, Solar Energy Systems, Hydroelectric Energy Systems, Electrical Energy Storage, Wind Energy Systems, Renewable Energy Resources , Energy Efficiency, Hybrid and Electric Vehicles and Powertrains
Emre Yılmaz
Prof. Dr. Emre Yılmaz
SAKARYA UYGULAMALI BİLİMLER ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Automotive Engineering (Other), Automotive Combustion and Fuel Engineering, Internal Combustion Engines, Renewable Energy Resources , Energy
Seyfi Polat
Prof. Seyfi Polat
ADANA ALPARSLAN TÜRKEŞ BİLİM VE TEKNOLOJİ ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Internal Combustion Engines
Anilkumar Shere
Dr. Anilkumar Shere
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Heat Transfer in Automotive, Automotive Combustion and Fuel Engineering, Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics, Fluid Mechanics and Thermal Engineering, Internal Combustion Engines, Mechanical Engineering, Energy Generation, Conversion and Storage (Excl. Chemical and Electrical), Energy, Mechatronics Engineering, Computational Methods in Fluid Flow, Heat and Mass Transfer (Incl. Computational Fluid Dynamics), Vehicle Technique and Dynamics
Olusegun David Samuel
Prof. Dr. Olusegun David Samuel
Federal University of Petroleum Resources
Dynamics, Vibration and Vibration Control, Internal Combustion Engines, Computational Methods in Fluid Flow, Heat and Mass Transfer (Incl. Computational Fluid Dynamics), Chemical and Thermal Processes in Energy and Combustion
Mert Gülüm
Assoc. Prof. Mert Gülüm
Karadeniz Teknik Üniversitesi, Makina Mühendisliği Bölümü
Internal Combustion Engines, Mechanical Engineering (Other), Numerical Methods in Mechanical Engineering, Engineering, Automotive Combustion and Fuel Engineering
Last Update Time: February 23, 2026


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