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.
Technical, Vocational and Workplace Education, Development of Vocational 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, Türkiye
Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics, Mechanical Engineering, Energy, Automotive Combustion and Fuel Engineering, Automotive Engineering, Internal Combustion Engines

Section Editors

Murat Altın
Finite Element Analysis , Automotive Engineering Materials, Vehicle Technique and Dynamics, Automotive Safety Engineering
Alper Calam
Prof. Dr. Alper Calam
Gazi University, Türkiye
Internal Combustion Engines, Automotive Combustion and Fuel Engineering, Mechanical 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
Plating Technology, Material Characterization, Resource Technologies, Corrosion
Mehmet Murat Topaç
Machine Design and Machine Equipment, Optimization Techniques in Mechanical Engineering, Vehicle Technique and Dynamics, Automotive Safety 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.

Pak Kin Wong
Prof. Pak Kin Wong
University of Macau
Automotive Combustion and Fuel Engineering, Vehicle Technique and Dynamics, Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Energy, Internal Combustion Engines

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. 
 

İlyas Uygur
Prof. Dr. İlyas Uygur
Duzce University
Aerospace Materials, Material Design and Behaviors, Biomaterial , Automotive Engineering Materials, Solid Mechanics, Tribology, Physical Metallurgy, Composite and Hybrid Materials, Corrosion, Metals and Alloy Materials, Powder Metallurgy
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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, Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics, Engineering, Energy, Mechanical Engineering, Internal Combustion Engines
Meral Özarslan Yatak
Information and Computing Sciences, Deep Learning, Fuzzy Computation, Circuits and Systems, Electrical Circuits and Systems, Electrical Energy Storage, Electrical Energy Transmission, Networks and Systems, Photovoltaic Power Systems, Electronics, Electronic Instrumentation, Photovoltaic Devices (Solar Cells), Control Theoryand Applications, Engineering Instrumentation, Hybrid and Electric Vehicles and Powertrains

Associate Professor Dr Meral Özarslan Yatak is a lecturer in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the Faculty of Technology, Gazi University. She completed her PhD at the Institute of Information Sciences, Gazi University, and conducts research in the fields of control systems, power electronics, electrical machines, renewable energy systems and artificial intelligence-based engineering applications.

Her research focuses particularly on the application of deep learning and fuzzy logic methods to fault diagnosis in electrical machines, smart control systems and industrial automation applications. She has participated in projects funded by TÜBİTAK and the university, and has numerous scientific publications and conference papers in national and international journals.

Fatih Şahin
Prof. Dr. Fatih Şahin
Gazi University,Ankara,Turkey
Automotive Mechatronics and Autonomous Systems, Automotive Engineering (Other), Hybrid and Electric Vehicles and Powertrains, Automotive Engineering, Embedded Systems, Electrical Engineering, Engineering, Information and Computing Sciences
Gang Li
Asst. Prof. Dr. Gang Li
Mississippi State University
Ship and Platform Structures (Incl. Maritime Hydrodynamics), Energy Efficiency, Mechatronic System Design, Dynamics, Vibration and Vibration Control, Energy Generation, Conversion and Storage (Excl. Chemical and Electrical), Machine Theory and Dynamics, Hybrid and Electric Vehicles and Powertrains, Mechanical Vibrations and Noise, Energy, Wind Energy Systems

Dr. Gang Li is an Assistant Professor in Michael W. Hall School of Mechanical Engineering and Assistant Director of DOE Industrial Training and Assessment Center (ITAC) at Mississippi State University. Dr. Li is a recipient of the NSF EPSCoR Research Fellow Award, NAS GRP Early Career Award, and DOE EnergyTech UP Faculty Explorer Award. 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'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
Optimization Techniques in Mechanical Engineering, Gas Dynamics, Computational Methods in Fluid Flow, Heat and Mass Transfer (Incl. Computational Fluid Dynamics), Internal Combustion Engines, Automotive Combustion and Fuel Engineering, Energy Generation, Conversion and Storage (Excl. Chemical and Electrical)

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
Hybrid and Electric Vehicles and Powertrains, Power Electronics
Faruk Emre Aysal
Asst. Prof. Dr. Faruk Emre Aysal
GİRESUN ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Numerical Methods in Mechanical Engineering, Vehicle Technique and Dynamics, Machine Theory and Dynamics, 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
Internal Combustion Engines, Mechanical Engineering, Composite and Hybrid Materials, Automotive Engineering

Editorial Board

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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, Aerodynamics (Excl. Hypersonic Aerodynamics), Dynamics, Vibration and Vibration Control, Computational Methods in Fluid Flow, Heat and Mass Transfer (Incl. Computational Fluid Dynamics), Internal Combustion Engines
Emre Yılmaz
Prof. Dr. Emre Yılmaz
SAKARYA UYGULAMALI BİLİMLER ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Automotive Engineering (Other), Automotive Combustion and Fuel Engineering, Energy, Renewable Energy Resources , Internal Combustion Engines
HC
Power Plants, Wind Energy Systems, Hydroelectric Energy Systems, Solar Energy Systems, Photovoltaic Power Systems, Electrical Energy Storage, Hybrid and Electric Vehicles and Powertrains, Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy Resources
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
Automotive Combustion and Fuel Engineering, Vehicle Technique and Dynamics, Internal Combustion Engines, Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics, Energy Generation, Conversion and Storage (Excl. Chemical and Electrical), Mechanical Engineering, Fluid Mechanics and Thermal Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering, Energy, Computational Methods in Fluid Flow, Heat and Mass Transfer (Incl. Computational Fluid Dynamics), Heat Transfer in Automotive
Olusegun David Samuel
Prof. Dr. Olusegun David Samuel
Federal University of Petroleum Resources
Chemical and Thermal Processes in Energy and Combustion, Internal Combustion Engines, Dynamics, Vibration and Vibration Control, Computational Methods in Fluid Flow, Heat and Mass Transfer (Incl. Computational Fluid Dynamics)
Mert Gülüm
Assoc. Prof. Mert Gülüm
Karadeniz Teknik Üniversitesi, Makina Mühendisliği Bölümü
Internal Combustion Engines, Engineering, Mechanical Engineering (Other), Automotive Combustion and Fuel Engineering, Numerical Methods in Mechanical Engineering
Last Update Time: August 19, 2026


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