Energy and Sustainable Aviation Fuels Solutions: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Sustainable Aviation 2023

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T. Hikmet Karakoc Ph.D.  graduated from Anadolu University the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He received his M.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Yildiz Technical University. where he started his full-time teaching and received his Full Professorship. He is currently researching at the Eskisehir Technical University. He has a wide range of research interests including sustainable aviation aircraft propulsion systems insulation heating ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) indoor air quality gas turbines cogeneration systems renewable energy energy economics fuels and combustion. He has participated in numerous industrial projects on these topics as a researcher consultant and project manager for over 30 projects and corporations. He also started a contest on special insulation applications among university students. He served as an Editor-in-Chief guest editor and editorial board member for international scientificjournals. He published national and international papers in over 300 journals and 40 books. Professor Karakoc actively follows membership positions for the Chamber of Mechanical Engineers and many sectorial associations international scientific organizations and societies. He is an active Board of Directors member of the International Association for Green Energy. He is currently holding the presidency of the SARES organization which is actively supporting scientists and students in sustainable aviation. He also organizes four symposiums on aviation subject areas as a Founding Chair.Shau-Shiun Jan Ph.D. is a Professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at National Cheng Kung University Taiwan. Professor Jan received his Ph.D. from the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Stanford University. His research interests include guidance navigation and control SBAS/GBAS wireless communications signal processing and adaptive distributednetwork systems. He is a member of the IEEE and Institute of Navigation (ION) and a senior member of the AIAA.Gaetano Currao Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at National Cheng Kung University Taiwan. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Aerospace Engineering University of New South Wales Canberra. His research interests include flight hardware design and analysis launch vehicle structures system analysis fatigue analysis of military aircraft mechanics of composite materials continuum damage mechanics computational solid mechanics and modeling of nonlinear mechanical properties of materialsAlper Dalkran Ph.D. received his bachelors degree Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Eskisehir Technical University (formerly known as Anadolu University) from the Avionics Department. He completed his MSc degree in the School of Science from Anadolu University in 2004 in Aviation Maintenance. He earned his Ph.D. degree in 2017 in Environmental Sustainability on Airports from the School of Science at Anadolu University by developing a model of energy-based calculations of an aerodrome. He has studied aircraft engines sustainability airports and exergy. He has 17 years of professional experience in Airports in Information Technology Automation and Integration. He has managed teams on system design projects tests commissioning operational readiness and operations. He has been working in the School of Aviation at Suleyman Demirel University since 2019 and lecturing in Flight Theory Airline Management and Airport Design subjects.Ali Haydar Ercan Ph.D. received his bachelors degree from the Mechanical Engineering Department Faculty of Engineering at the University of Cumhuriyet Sivas and his MSc degree from the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Gazi Ankara where he studied Heat Transfer. He earned his Ph.D. from the Department of Aerodynamics University of Liverpool England where he worked on Boundary Layer Theory on Flat Plate Surfaces and developed empiric formulas for transition development distance from the leading edge. He completed his Ph.D. in 1997. He also earned a Postgraduate degree in Software Technologies from the University of Liverpool in 1999. He worked at the University of Cumhuriyet as a lecturer at the University of Liverpool as an assistant lecturer while studying for his Ph.D. and at Ondokuz Mays University as Head of the Junior Aviation Technical School where he was one of the departments founders. Dr. Ercan works as a Lecturer in the Department of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Electronics and Automation at Porsuk Vocational School at Eskisehir Technical University. He is also working on PIV (particle image velocimetry) related subjects and a new idea for wing design. He is a reviewer for four journals and a guest editor. He has held a wide range of managerial positions and has experience with international commercial private companies.