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 […]

Increasing use of 3D printing techniques to manufacture consumer products raises the question:  What is the reliability of 3D printed parts/objects? I started using some of the 3D printers available at IIT to observe the effects of various printing setting on the mechanical reliability. I also try to observe quality variation between different 3D printers […]

This semester, Spring 2015, I will be teaching one of the best classes that a sophomore can take “Design for Innovation, MMAE 232,” prepared by Prof. Matthew Spenko. During the fall semester, I graded the students projects and was a guest lecturer for the same class. Design for Innovation includes a lot of concepts that are practiced […]

You can check my new publication in the Journal of The American Ceramic Society, please click. This publication investigates the combined effects of pore-pore stress interactions, crack size distributions, and crack orientation on fracture behavior of porous glass. I believe with the use of additive manufacturing techniques reliability of brittle materials will be improved.   Posted […]

You can see some of my pictures together with some great photographers’ work at The Best of Wine and Critique: A Photography Exhibit.   Posted 4th September 2014 by Ozgur Keles

Here is a point cloud generated by Gaussian, Gumbel, Frechet, and Weibull distributions. You can play with the Mathematica code given below. My question is: Can you teach statistics in a better way? pN = 500;pW = 700;pF = 1900; datN = {x, y} = {RandomVariate[NormalDistribution[-10, 5], pN],RandomVariate[NormalDistribution[-10, 5], pN]};datN = Transpose[datN]; datW = {x, […]

I will be presenting some of my symmetric pictures at Simone’s (960 W 18th, Chicago) through July 10. Opening reception will be on June 16th at 8:00pm. My special thanks go to Jessica Nicole Gorse and Chicago Photography Center. You can see some of my work in the Gallery or Flickr. Posted 11th June 2014 by Ozgur Keles

Every third Friday Chicago Photography Center hosts a Wine & Critique event, which has a monthly photography contest. This month my picture was selected as the winner for the theme: Homeless. My special thanks goes to Elizabeth Porporato, Warren Perlstein, and Bob Long Jr for their support and comments. For the past winners of the W&C, please visit CPC. For […]

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 […]