I took these picture this afternoon. Birds are free. We are in the cage–mind, home, planet… Posted 25th December 2012 by Ozgur Keles

I presented my poster on mechanical behavior of pharmaceutical materials to 7th and 8th grade students at the Next Generation Scholars Research Fair. It was an interesting experience to interact with enthusiastic young people and talk about the science behind the tablets and pills we take. Each student made a business card onto which we, […]

One of my self-learning modules, Weibull Fit to Computer Generated Fracture Data, was recently published as a part of the Wolfram Demonstrations Project. Fracture data can be generated in the module and fitted by the two-parameter Weibull distribution function. Method of moment estimators of Weibull modulus and characteristic strength; and P-values (based on the Kolmogorov-Smirnov and Anderson-Darling […]

Recently, I took an online class-“Writing in the Sciences” in Coursera lectured by Kristin Sainani at Stanford University; the class focuses on how to write a scientific paper effectively. In the first half of the eight-week class, Dr. Sainani encourages good writing by giving tips on grammar, explaining how to cut the clutter, reviewing examples, and using an active […]

PhD student Ozgur Keles was selected by the American Ceramic Society to receive the Sapphire Award in the Graduate Excellence in Materials Science (GEMS) The School of Materials Engineering is pleased to announce PhD student Ozgur Keles was selected by the American Ceramic Society to receive the Sapphire Award in the Graduate Excellence in Materials […]

Here are some of the photos I took with my iPhone at The David L. Lawrence Convention Center. Posted 11th October 2012 by Ozgur Keles

Please check out my friend Ilker Ozcan’s education tool. Posted 16th September 2012 by Ozgur Keles

Ozgur Keles’s and Ding-Wen (Tony) Chung’s posters were selected as highlights at 2012 Gordon Research Conference in Solid State Studies in Ceramics The posters presented by graduate students Ding-Wen (Tony) Chung (advisor: R. Edwin Garcia) and Ozgur Keles (co-advisors: R. Edwin Garcia and Keith Bowman) were selected as highlights of poster session A at the 2012 […]