I joined the San Jose State University in August and recently got the Kordestani Endowed Chair position for my research projects. I would like to thank the professors: Guna Selvaduray, Melaine McNeil, Folarin Erogbogbo, Richard Chung, Essam Marouf, and our dean Andrew Hsu for their support. The Kordestani Endowed Chair position provides research funds, which […]

The details about the research projects can be found in the links, new projects will be uploaded soon. 1. Reliability of 3D-printed polymer components, click for the details. 2. Electric field effect on stress evolution in piezoelectric materials, click for the details. Posted 25th August 2015 by Ozgur Keles

I have been investigating the effects of porosity on the fracture behavior of brittle materials. In this recent work, we produced pharmaceutical compacts and tested their mechanical behavior through diametral compression tests.  I am glad that the two names in this paper–Nicholas P. Barcenas and Daniel H. Sprys–were my undergraduate researchers without whom the paper […]

We have finished the “Design for Innovation” class at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). My learners–I prefer learners instead of students–have done tremendous work on projects, such as sustainable chair, trebuchet, and biomimetic robot. The details about the class can be found in the MMAE 232 website. Here are some of the pictures from the […]

Thanks again to the contributing editor Lynne Robinson, details are here. Click for the highlight article.   Posted 9th March 2015 by Ozgur Keles

Here is the story of how one of my pictures became the February cover of JOM: The Member Journal of TMS. In July 2014, I posted “Can you teach statistics in a better way?” which had some pictures generated using a small Mathematica script. As I have been working on fracture stochastics for some time, I […]