Operations and Training in MRO

T. Hikmet Karakoc, Ph.D.,  graduated from Anadolu University, the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He received his M.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Yildiz Technical University. He received his Ph.D. from Anadolu University, where he started his full-time teaching and received his Full Professorship. He is currently researching at the Eskisehir Technical University. He has a wide range of research interests, including sustainable aviation, aircraft propulsion systems, insulation, heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC), indoor air quality, gas turbines, cogeneration systems, renewable energy, energy economics, fuels, and combustion. He has participated in numerous industrial projects on these topics as a researcher, consultant, and project manager for over 30 projects and corporations. He also started a contest on special insulation applications among university students. He served as an Editor-in-Chief, guest editor, and editorial board member for international scientific journals. He published national and international papers in over 300 journals and 40 books. Professor Karakoc actively follows membership positions for the Chamber of Mechanical Engineers and many sectorial associations, international scientific organizations, and societies. He is an active Board of Directors member of the International Association for Green Energy. He is currently holding the presidency of the SARES organization, which is actively supporting scientists and students in the area of sustainable aviation. He also organizes four symposiums on aviation subject areas as a Founding Chair.Dinh Dung Nguyen, Ph.D., is a Lecturer and Vice-Head of the Department of Aircraft System Design at Le Quy Don Technical University, Hanoi. Dr. Nguyen received his Ph.D. in Transportation and Vehicle Engineering from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) in 2022. His research fields of interest areautomation and control and dynamics and control.Anh Tuan Nguyen, Ph.D., is a Lecturer and Head of the Department of Aircraft System Design at Le Quy Don Technical University, Hanoi. He received his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in 2022. His research fields of interest are aircraft aerodynamics, flight dynamics and control, and aeroelasticity.  Alper Dalkıran, Ph.D., received his bachelor’s degree Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Eskisehir Technical University (formerly known as Anadolu University) from the Avionics Department. He completed his MSc degree in the School of Science from Anadolu University in 2004 in Aviation Maintenance. He earned his Ph.D. degree in 2017 in Environmental Sustainability on Airports from the School of Science at Anadolu University by developing a model of energy-based calculations of an aerodrome. Dr. Dalkıranhas studied aircraft engines, sustainability, airports, and exergy. He has 17 years of professional experience in airports in information technology, automation, and integration. He has managed teams on system design, projects, tests, commissioning, operational readiness, and operations. He has been working in the School of Aviation at Suleyman Demirel University since 2019 and lecturing in flight theory, airline management, and airport design subjects.

• Prediction of Process-Induced Distortion of Braided CFRP Composites Based on Effective Material Property and Cure Modeling.- Modeling and Simulation of Heavy-Lift Tethered Multicopter Considering Mechanical Properties of Electric Power Cable.- Composite materials in the aerospace industry: Some opportunities and challenges.- Application of laser distance meters for non-contact determination of aircraft weight and center of gravity.- Open-source tool for rotorcraft design.- Attitude at Altitude: Ethics and Flight Safety.- NOTAR Helicopter preliminary design app.- Energy and comfort in virtual aircraft passenger cabin section – Part I: Design of the Cabin and Hydrothermal Manikins.- Energy and comfort in virtual aircraft passenger cabin section – Part II: Three-dimensional airflow around hydrothermal manikins.- Using CFD studies effect of an air circulating tank on hydrodynamic performance of a hull.- Power Generation Sustainability in Aviation Ground-Based Maintenance, Rectification,Overhaul, Testing Operations.- Revolutionizing Aviation MRO Training: Exploring the Impact of Digitalization.- Energy and comfort in virtual aircraft passenger cabin section – Part III: Binaural mannequins.- Process structure proposal for the automation of aircraft maintenance planning.- Navigating the winds of change: case studies of the latest high-level research in the MRO industry.- Aircraft maintenance practices using virtual reality.- The new solution of air plasma spray for hardfacing.- Longitudinal motion control of a fully submerged hydrofoil craft using a neural network.- Research and development airboats for rescue works.- Numerical study on bubble growth and collapse near a solid wall with a gas-entrapping hole.- A study on propellers for airboats.- Mixing process effect in shear stiffening gels for aircraft.- The Importance of periodic measurement of vibration values to prevent CNC spindle tool runout in the aviation industry.- A comparative study of the force of shot for5.56mm assault rifles with different barrel lengths.- Study the influence of the presence of air in the hydraulic brake on its operation.- Fire detection in surveillance camera systems using a deep-learning-based approach.- Optimization of acoustic performance of double-layer absorbers based on cellular foams.- Performance of a micro wind turbine retrofitted with a prototype flow acceleration system at a typical Urban Site of Dhaka, Bangladesh.- Active noise control technology for Advanced Air Mobility applications.- Visualization on Supercritical/Transcritical CO2 Jet and Boundary Flow.- Nanocolloids: from basic experiment to applications.- Hungarian Drone Coalition: introduction to the Hungarian drone ecosystem and development strategy.- A model-driven approach to develop controllers for quadrotor UAVs.- A UAF-Driven point of view to implement UAV controllers.- Design and manufacturing a virtual reality parachute training simulation system.- Radar design techniques deployed in anti-drone and counter UAV.- An automatic control system for the takeoff and landing of a quadrotor.- Aerodynamic effect of different drone blade tip shapes.- Modal analysis of a body-spring system modeling an insect flapping-wing structure.- Research and design the wing structure separation for HALE UAV.- Research of kinematics and solutions to overcome the delay caused by the steering control unit in the automatic system of controlling the angle stability of the aircraft.- Study on rotor interactional effects on aerodynamic noise characteristics of quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle.- PID controller system for hexacopter using angular rate correction block.- Exploring the efficacy of VR/Haptic technologies in elevating aviation training and simulation.- Impact of AI on sustainable procurement: revolutionizing aviation maintenance operations.- Exploring the Sustainability Effects of High-Altitude UAV Components using Multicriteria Decision Analysis.- Numerical optimization 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