Yalcin Aydin

Born in 1970, Yalcin Aydin completed his graduate program with scholarship in the Mechanical Engineering Department of Texas State Lamar University in the United States of America and did his doctoral studies as a research assistant in the Department of Nebraska University – Lincoln Mechanical Engineering. Afterwards, he completed the Executive MBA program of Middle East Technical University and the senior management certification program at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) University. Having started his career as a Design & CAE Engineer at FORD Motor Company in 1997, Aydin was awarded by FORD company in 2000 for the simulation of deep drawing analysis of sheet metal molds using the finite element method. In the same year, he started to work as a special process manager at GE Aircraft Engines in the United States. Aydin won the Corbett D. Caudill award, the most prestigious engineering excellence award of GE Aircraft Engines, in 2005 with the ITD (Integrated Tooling Design) project. ITD and Shot Peen Modeling Projects were nominated and patented for Tooling Design by GE Global Research Center in Albany, New York, USA.