It has been a great pleasure to help my students learn basics of mechanics at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Here is how we ended the semester. Details are on my teaching page.

I took some pictures during the St. Patrick’s Day parade in Chicago. Posted 16th March 2014 by Ozgur Keles

I discuss the effects of crack orientation on fracture behavior of brittle porous materials in my latest paper with Dr. Keith J. Bowman and Dr. R. Edwin Garcia. I would like to thank my editor Dr. Mark Kachanov, who is an expert in fracture mechanics and other fields. Please find a PDF copy here. Posted 3rd March 2014 by Ozgur […]

Update: I am working on interpretation of the data (~160 Gb) we generated in Argonne from the lead-free ferroelectric and ferroelastic ceramics. I helped my old and new group members Dr. Matthias Ehmke and Dr. Chris Fancher with the synchrotron X-Ray experiments in Argonne National Laboratories. It was my first time with synchrotron X-Ray, which […]

We will be doing X-Ray characterization on lead-free ceramics in Argonne National Laboratory. Posted 18th February 2014 by Ozgur Keles

I started teaching the sophomore level “Introduction to Mechanics” class at Illinois Institute of Technology, Spring 2014. It is a large class of 80 students. I believe “Being Happy” is the most important thing in learning. Please click for my first lecture. You can also check my other teachings and opinion on public education. Image from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Smiley.svg Posted 14th January 2014 […]

I gave a lecture on fracture statistics as a part of the Introduction to Ceramic Materials class at Illinois Institute of Technology. Please click for the lecture notes. Posted 30th October 2013 by Ozgur Keles

We are looking for Illinois Institute of Technology graduate and undergraduate students for MMAE project(s) with support up to 12$/hr. If you are interested, please send me an email. Project: Reliability engineering of pharmaceutical tablets and pills The support is up to 12.00$ per hour. 1 Graduate Research Project1 Undergraduate Research ProjectWomen and minorities are […]

This blog starts with “If you’re lucky enough to live without want, it’s a natural impulse to want to try and help others.” It is a good read and includes the related presentation.   “**Too often, we try to alleviate the suffering of those immediately in front of us by giving in a “Knee-Jerk” fashion.**Instead, we […]

I spent two weeks in University of California, Santa Barbara, for the Summer School on Materials in 3D. Everything was great except for the duration of the lectures, 90 minutes. All the people in the picture below survived, though. For me, Allosphere demonstration was the most exiting part of the summer school. Allosphere offers a unique platform to combine […]

Here are some the HDR images that I took in UCSB. Posted 31st August 2013 by Ozgur Keles

I took some pictures on the road to Santa Barbara. Here are pseudo-HDR versions of those pictures. Posted 31st August 2013 by Ozgur Keles

I will be attending a two-week (August 18 to 30) summer school about Materials in 3D: Modeling and Imaging at Multiple Length Scales organized by Dr. Tresa Pollock and Dr. Ram Seshadri. Posted 14th August 2013 by Ozgur Keles

I do try to update everything in this space. Here is a small one for my public education page. Figure showing an imaginary museum education situation with emotional responses (skin conductivity) of six students (blue circle) and a teacher (red circle). Positions can also be gathered to generate a point cloud for further correlation. Warhol […]

Here are some of the pictures I took at Millenium park. Posted 7th July 2013 by Ozgur Keles

Here are some of the pictures I took in Chicago on July 4th. I use Photomatix Pro to generate HDR images. For firework pictures, I just rotated the tripod head except the last one. Posted 7th July 2013 by Ozgur Keles

Here is a small lecture series on fracture in Turkish-still developing-please check the Kopma link in the main tab. Henüz hazırlamakta (düzeltilmemiş) olduğum kopma ders notlarının bir kısmına yukarıdaki menüden ulaşabilirsiniz. Her kesik çizgi arasında kalan alan bir konuyu temsil edecek şekildedir ve kendi içinde numaralandırılmıştır. Denklemler ‘D’ olarak gösterilmiştir. Malzeme bilimi üzerine Türkçe kaynak […]

I attended my second next generation scholars fair at Purdue University. The science fair provides an opportunity for graduate students to interact with junior level high school students and share their research. Below you can find some pictures from the organization and the survey results.   Posted 23rd April 2013 by Ozgur Keles

I was searching for another education class after I learned that the course I registered–Models and Modeling Perspective in Engineering Education–has cancelled due to lack of enrollment. Luckily, MIT Media Lab offers a much better course for my interest–Learning Creative Learning (there must be high enrollment). I signed up for the course and I am looking forward to […]