Yener elected ASEE Fellow
Yaman Yener, Associate Dean and Director of the Graduate School has been elected a Fellow of ASEE. The fellow grade is conferred upon an active member of ASEE who has been a member for at least 10 years, in recognition of outstanding contributions to engineering or engineering technology education.
Yaman was born and raised in Ankara, Turkey. He earned Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in Mechanical Engineering at the Middle East Technical University (METU) and a Ph.D. degree from North Carolina State University in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He joined METU as a faculty member for several years, then returned to the United States as a Visiting Professor at the University of Delaware before joining Northeastern’s Department of Mechanical Engineering (now Mechanical and Industrial Engineering) in 1982.
At Northeastern Yaman teaches the full spectrum of undergraduate thermofluids courses and the graduate sequence in heat transfer, while guiding many Ph.D. students through their research. He served as interim department chair for the Mechanical Engineering Department from July, 1989 through December, 1990. He was appointed Associate Dean for Research and Graduate studies in 1992. As Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies he provided critical oversight in the awards of both the 2000 NSF CenSSIS Engineering Research Center and the 2004 NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center. He also led the development of the highly successful M.S. in Telecommunications that began in 1997. His early commitment to the recruiting and support of international graduate students laid the groundwork for the doubling of our graduate student population.
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