MUSTAFA TURHAN ÇOBAN

EDUCATION

Postgraduate Diploma in Computer Science, February 1995 - December 1996, Victoria University of Technology, Footscray, Victoria Australia.

PhD in Mechanical Engineering, Sept 1982-August 1986, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, USA : A Full time course emphasis on Energy systems, Thermodynamics, Heat transfer and Fluid Mechanics.

M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, Dec 1979 - May 1982, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan 49931, USA : A full-time course emphasis on Energy systems, Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer and Fluid Mechanics.

B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, Sept 1974 - July 1978, Dokuz Eylul University, Mechanical Engineering Dept.(formerly known as Ege University Mech. Eng. Dept.), Izmir, Turkey : A Full time course in Mechanical Engineering.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

University of Nebraska – Lincoln, Mechanical Engineering Department

Associated professor                                                            August 2001-present

• Teaching second and third year thermodynamics,  Power Plant design and heating ventilating and air conditioning design courses

Gebze Institute of High Technology, Computer Science Department

 Lecturer                                                                                September 1999 – 2001

• Teaching graduate level java programming language

Marmara Research Center, Energy Systems and Environmental Research Inst.

Senior Researcher,                                                              August 1998 – August 2001

• System study and selection for Gölcük naval base co-generation power plant
• Energy storage technology, battery research
• Fuel cell technology research and development
• Energy management courses for food and glass industry
• Coordinator of military energy projects

Dokuz Eylül University, Mechanical Engineering Dept. Bornova IZMIR TURKEY

Associated professor                                                          April 1998 - August 1998

• Teaching java programming language, heat exchangers, combustion and refrigeration.

System Division, Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited, Churchill, Victoria, Australia

Senior Engineer/Researcher                                            August 1995 - April 1998

• Researching, developing and designing of solid oxide fuel cell systems such as heat exchangers, catalytic reformers, de-sulfurizers.
• Computer Simulations of fuel cell system, including properties of gas and gas mixtures, pipe flows, heat exchangers, electro-chemical reactions of the fuel cell, thermochemical reactions and thermochemical equilibrium analysis of adiabatic catalytic reformers in c++ , java and fortran computer languages.
• Developing control system and control software by using CITEC real time control software/language and PLCs.
• Testing and evaluating experimental results for further advancement in fuel cell systems.

Victoria University of Technology, Mechanical Engineering Dep.,Footscray, Victoria, Australia

Associated Professor                                                     February 1995 - August 1995

• Lecturing Computer aided drawing by using AutoCAD, thermodynamics and solid mechanics.

 

Ballarat University, Department of Engineering, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia

Associated Professor                                                       Dec 1989 - August 1995

• Lecturing of first, second and third year Thermodynamics which includes heat transfer and fluid static, Second and third year fluid mechanics, computer aided drawing and production management
• Researching on combustion, alternative fuel sources, environmentally friendly refrigeration systems, engine driven solar boosted heat pumps.
• Developing computer simulation programs for real gas equations, thermo chemical equilibrium , thermodynamic cycles and processes in FORTRAN, C, Mapple  and Matlab languages.

Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) Dulux Engineering Head Office, Melbourne,
Victoria, Australia

Project Design Engineer                                             June 1988 - Nov 1989

• Design and development of new completely computer controlled resin plant
• Calculating and selecting of pipe sizing and flow conditions for various chemicals.
• Selection of pumps and vacuum systems.
• Calculating and selecting of safety relief systems for runaway reaction, pressure, thermal and fire protection.
• Designing and selection of cleaning systems.
• Design specifications, heating and cooling calculations of chemical reactors.
• Calculation and selection of thermal insulations, steam and heat tracing of vessel and pipe.

Energy Drilling, Test and Utilisation Division, Drilling Department, Mineral
Research, Test and Exploration General Directorate (MTA), Ankara, Turkey.

Geothermal Energy R&D Engineer                          August 1986 - April 1988

• Designing, Constructing and testing of a central, geothermally heated ammonia-water absorption air conditioning system for a state-owned hotel.
• Developing computer simulation of Ammonia-Water absorption system in FORTRAN language.
• Designing of Seferihisar geothermal greenhouse heating project.
• Designing of geothermal corrosion resistant down-hole heat exchangers/boilers, developing computer simulations for these systems.

University of Utah, Dep. of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

System Consultant for Digital VAX Computer       Oct 1984 - June 1986

• Operating of the computer system.
• Helping and teaching of the system programs and languages such as CAD - CAM, Finite elements, FORTRAN, VMX VAX Macro, DSNP (Dynamic Simulation for Nuclear Power Plants), ASPEN, Pascal to system users.

University of Utah, Dep. of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

Research Assistant                                                 March 1983 - Sept 1984

• Designing, Installing and Operating of a direct contact, three-phase heat exchanger facility with a fairly large (about 0.6 m diameter and 6 m in height) contactor. This type of heat exchangers can be used in binary-geothermal and solar-pond power plants.
• Developing computer model of one dimensional direct contact three-phase exchangers that simulated the motion and heat transfer of the bubbles of hydrocarbons or freons as they flow through water and changing phase from liquid to vapour.

University of Utah, Dep. of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

Teaching Assistant /Lecturer                             Sept 1984 - June 1986

• Lecturing of Thermodynamics, Heat transfer, Thermal System Design, Numerical analysis and Statics.
• Assisting for preparation of solutions for the text book entitled "Design of Thermal Systems" by R.F. Boehm.

Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, USA

Teaching Assistant /Lecturer                             March 1980 - Feb 1982

• Lecturing of Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics, Heat Transfer, Numerical Analysis.

Aras Air Compressors, Izmir, Turkey

Design Engineer                                                July 1978 - October 1978

• Designing of new air compressors and centrifugal pumps, production flow and quality control.

PUBLICATIONS

• Java 2 programming (in Turkish : Java 2 programlama klavuzu), ALFA publishing company, ticarethane sok no 41/1 34410 cagaloglu Istanbul, turkey, ISBN 975-316-631-1
• Energy recovery systems in solid oxide fuel cell systems, International Symposium on Transport Phenomena, Istanbul, Turkey, July 16-20 2000, Istanbul, Turkey
• Finite difference simulation of water-exhaust gases evaporator in solid oxide fuel cell systems, International Symposium on Transport Phenomena, Istanbul, Turkey, July 16-20 2000, Istanbul, Turkey
• "Performance of a Three- Phase, Spray Column Direct Contact Heat Exchanger", Transactions of ASME, JOURNAL OF HEAT TRANSFER, February 1989, Volume 111, pp. 166-172.
• "Seferihisar-Cumali Geothermal Area, Greenhouse Heating Project and Applications", Proceedings of United Nations Farm and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) Solar and Geothermal Energy Greenhouse Heating Conference, 1988.
• "A Parametric Study of a Three-Phase, Spray Column, Direct-Contact Heat Exchanger", Proceedings of the 1978 ASME - JSME Thermal Engineering Joint Conference, 1987, Vol. 4.
• "Numerical Modeling of Three Phase Direct Contact Heat Exchangers", PhD Dissertation, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1986.
• "Numerical and Experimental Modeling of Three Phase Direct contact Heat Exchangers", Eight International Heat Transfer Conference, Paper No. 5a-08, 1985.
• "Evaluation of Flooding Limits of a Direct Contact Three-Phase Spray Column", American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Paper 85-HT- 49, 1985.

COMPUTER SKILLS

• Advanced programmer of the following Programming languages:
1. Java
2. C, C++
3. FORTRAN
4. Basic
5. Pascal
6. Lisp
7. Parallaxis (parallel programming language)
8. Occam (parallel programming language)
9. CITECT (real time control interface language)
10. Advanced programmer in the following thermal/thermochemical system simulation languages:
11. DSNP (Dynamic Simulation of Nuclear Power plants), ASPEN PLUS and HYSYS
• Very good in numerical analysis, finite elements and system simulations of thermochemical, fluid mechanics, heat and mass transfer system simulations.