Prof. Dr. Ali KAHRAMAN
He was born in Konya in 1972. He completed his primary and secondary education there. He graduated from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Selçuk University in 1993. That same year, he began working as a research assistant in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Dumlupınar University. In 1997, he completed his master's degree in Mechanical Engineering at Çukurova University and received the title of "M.S. Mechanical Engineer." In 1997, he left his position at Dumlupınar University and began working as a research assistant in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Çukurova University.
Between 2001 and 2002, he worked in the Fluid Mechanics Laboratory of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics at Lehigh University in the United States to conduct the experimental portion of his doctoral dissertation. He completed his doctorate in Mechanical Engineering at Çukurova University in 2002. Between 2002 and 2012, he served as an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Education at Selçuk University's Faculty of Technical Education. He became an associate professor in 2011. From 2012 to 2014, he worked as an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Selçuk University's Faculty of Technology. During his time at Selçuk University, he served as vice dean, department head, faculty executive board member, and faculty board member of both the Faculty of Technical Education and the Faculty of Technology.
Prof. Dr. Kahraman transferred to our university in 2014 and served as an associate professor in the Department of Energy Systems Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture. He was appointed professor to the same department in 2017. In December 2019, he transferred to the Department of Mechanical Engineering and became department head. Prof. Dr. Ali Kahraman, who has conducted national and international scientific research in the fields of Fluid Mechanics and Energy Technologies, has served on the faculty board and faculty executive board of the Faculty of Engineering at our university. Between 2020 and 2021, he served as an elected senate member and advisor to the rector on behalf of the Faculty of Engineering. While serving as Dean of the Seydişehir Ahmet Cengiz Faculty of Engineering, Prof. Dr. Kahraman was appointed Vice Rector of our university on December 30, 2022, in accordance with Article 13 of Higher Education Law No. 2547, and Advisor to the Rector on April 15, 2024.
Prof. Dr. Kahraman is married and has three children.
Prof. Dr. Muzaffer ÇAKAR
Muzaffer Çakar was born in Malazgirt on March 23, 1965. His father's name is Cemal, and his mother's name is Ayşe.
He graduated from the Chemistry Department of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Yüzüncü Yıl University. He received his master's degree from the Institute of Science at Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam University and his doctorate in Chemistry at the Institute of Science at Atatürk University.
He began his career as a chemistry teacher. He later worked as a research assistant at Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam and Atatürk Universities. He became an assistant professor and associate professor at Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam University, and held administrative positions. He has authored 31 scientific publications, 21 of which are international. He has received the TÜBİTAK Scientific Publication Incentive Award 19 times.
Çakar, a faculty member in the Department of Basic Sciences in the Faculty of Engineering at Necmettin Erbakan University, serves as an advisor to the Rector.
Çakar speaks fluent English and is married with five children.
Prof. Dr. Ercan CANDAN
Prof. Dr. Ercan CANDAN was born in 1967 in Ereğli, Kdz. He completed his primary, secondary, and high school education in Ereğli, Kdz.
He graduated from the Metallurgical Education Department of Gazi University in 1988. That same year, he began working as a technical instructor at the Ministry of National Education's Ankara Ostim Apprenticeship Training Center. In 1989, he was appointed as a specialist in the World Bank Vocational High School Development Project at the Ministry of National Education's Projects Department. In 1990, he was sent to England for nine months of training as part of the YÖK-World Bank "Lecturer Training Project." Upon his return, he began working as a lecturer in the Casting Program at Hacettepe University's Alaplı Vocational School. In 1993, he was sent to England as part of the YÖK's "Overseas Postgraduate Education" program. He completed his master's and doctorate in Metallurgical Engineering at the University of Sheffield, England, in 1998. That same year, he began working in the Casting Teacher Training Program at Karabük University's Faculty of Technical Education. He became an associate professor in 2000 and a full professor in 2006. During his time at the faculty, he served as Vice Dean of the Faculty of Technical Education, Department Head, Member of the Faculty Executive Board, and Member of the Faculty Board. Since 2001, he has been the initiator and executive member of the Iron and Steel Congress, held every two years. He conducted research projects at the Karabük Iron and Steel Works and the Ereğli Iron and Steel Works. He played an active role in the sister city transition between Ereğli, Karadeniz, and Alchevsk, Ukraine. He taught courses at the Donbass State Technical University in Ukraine. He conducted joint research projects with the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Leicester, UK, and James Cook University, Australia. He was assigned at various times by the State Planning Organization (DPT) and TIKA (Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency) to solve the operational problems of the Iron and Steel Casting Factory built in Africa (Gambia) within the scope of technical assistance provided by the Republic of Turkey (1999-2011). In 2010, he began his career at Bilecik University's Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering and was appointed Vice Rector the same year.
In 2011, he served in the Turkish Grand National Assembly as a Member of Parliament for Zonguldak in the 24th Term. During this period, he founded and chaired the Turkey-Gambia Inter-Parliamentary Friendship Group. In the Turkish Grand National Assembly, he served as a member of the European Joint Parliamentary Assembly, Spokesperson of the European Union Harmonization Commission, Member of the Asian Parliamentary Assembly, the Turkey-Moldova Inter-Parliamentary Friendship Group, and a member of the Industry, Trade, Energy, Natural Resources, Information and Technology Commission. He was sent to The Gambia as the Presidential Special Representative from February 16-19, 2015. He served as the AK Party's Deputy Chairman of R&D from 2013 to 2016.
He served as a Manufacturing Consultant at MCM Defense Ltd. from 2016 to 2019. He began working in the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at Necmettin Erbakan University's Faculty of Engineering in 2019 and currently serves as Director of the Konya Organized Industrial Zone Vocational School and Advisor to the Rector.
Prof. Dr. Ercan Candan is married and has three children.
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Prof. Dr. Yüksel ÖZDEN
Born in Muğla in 1963, Prof. Dr. Yüksel Özden is an educational scientist who integrates his experience in academia, bureaucracy, and politics. He completed his undergraduate studies at Ankara University's Faculty of Educational Sciences. He received a government scholarship to pursue his master's and doctoral studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, a leading institution in the world. He continued his postdoctoral studies at the same university's Center on Organization and Restructuring of Schools, specializing in school development and learning processes.
Özden began his academic career in Turkey in 1995 as an assistant professor, becoming an associate professor in 1998 and a full professor in 2003. In addition to his academic work, he has maintained a constant interaction with schools through research projects, seminars, and conferences. He has combined his academic responsibilities with various administrative roles, including department heads, center and institute directors, and dean and vice-rector positions.
Appointed Director General of Primary Education in the Ministry of National Education in 2006, Özden spearheaded efforts to update curricula, rewrite textbooks, and strengthen school administration. He subsequently served two terms in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey as a Member of Parliament for Muğla between 2007 and 2015. During this period, he assumed active responsibilities in the National Education Commission, the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, and the EU Joint Commission, and contributed to the work of the Gifted Research Commission. He also served as President of the Asian Parliamentary Assembly, gaining an intimate understanding of countries such as China, South Korea, Pakistan, Iran, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Vietnam. During this period, he gained an in-depth perspective on the cultural, political, and current affairs of these countries and gained significant experience in Asia-Pacific policy processes. He also contributed to the development of Turkey's international relations in education and culture through his presidency of the Australia and Moldova Friendship Groups.
Özden's works vary in scope and direction: some discuss the field's fundamental issues in depth, others guide prospective teachers on their professional journeys, and others open doors to individuals' quests for development within their inner worlds. Among the works that have shaped the field's theoretical debates, Learning and Teaching (1996) and Transformation in Education: New Values in Education (1997) stand out. Learning and Teaching sheds light on the nature of learning, addressing brain-based learning, multiple intelligences, and similar contemporary approaches. It remains a reference work that continues to serve as a reference source today. Transformation in Education, with its visionary approach that aims to offer new paradigms to the structural problems of the Turkish education system, has earned an enduring place in the literature. In addition, his translation of Phillip Schlechty's classic work, Re-Establishing the School, is another significant contribution to the field's development.
The core textbooks for prospective teachers—Introduction to Education, Classroom Management, and The Turkish Education System and School Administration—address current and stimulating issues with original perspectives, offering prospective teachers a pioneering perspective. His book, "Discover Yourself," in the field of personal development, illuminates an individual's struggle to understand and realize themselves, opening the door to a more introspective journey. Prof. Dr. Yüksel Özden, a faculty member in the Department of Educational Administration at Necmettin Erbakan University's Ahmet Keleşoğlu Faculty of Education, serves as Advisor to the Rector. Prof. Dr. Özden, who speaks advanced English and intermediate Arabic, is married with three children.
