Memberships in Professional Societies:
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Fellow, Honorary Member
Turkish Academy of Sciences, Honorary Member
Society of Women Engineers, Member
American Institute of Aerodynamics and Astronautics (AIAA), Assoc. Fellow (retd)
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Fellow
International Centre for Heat and Mass Transfer (ICHMT), Fellow
Leadership in Professional Societies:
– Member, the Steering Committee of the Southwest Symposium of Thermal Sciences, 1978-79
– Chairperson of Steering Committee of the Southwest Symposium of Thermal Sciences, 1978-79.
– Member, AIAA Thermophysics Committee, 1979-82, 1992-95.
– Member, ISES/AS Education and Publications Committee, 1979-80.
– Member, ASME, Fundamentals of Heat Transfer Committee, 1980-99.
– ASME HTD Liaison for Energy Technology Conference 1993-96.
– SWE Convention Technical Program Co-Chair, 1998.
– Chairman, SWE Women in Academia Committee, 1998-2000.
– Session Chairman, Sessions on “Solar Heating and Cooling II” and “Solar Applications”, Solar Energy and Conservation Symposium Workshop Conference, Miami Beach, Florida, December 1978.
– Session Chairman, Session on “Safety Application”, 2nd Multiphase Flow and Heat Transfer Symposium-Workshop, Miami Beach, Florida, April 1979.
– Session Chairman, Session on “Solar Collectors II” 2nd Miami International Conference on Alternative Energy Sources, Clean Energy Research Institute, 10-13 December 1979.
– Session Chairman and Organizer, Sessions on “Solar Energy I” and “Solar Energy II” AIAA 18th Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Pasadena, California, January 1980.
– Session Chairman, Session on “Solar Collectors”, 3rd Miami International Conference on Alternative Energy Sources, December 1980.
– Technical Program Committee Member of AIAA 16th Thermophysics Conference. Session Organizer and Chairman on “Phase Change Heat Transfer”, AIAA 16th Thermophysics Conference, June 22-25, 1981, Palo Alto, California.
– Session Organizer and Chairman, Session on “Fundamentals of Combined Mode Heat Transfer: Convection and Radiation”, 1982 AIAA/ASME Fluids, Plasma, Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, June 1982.
– Session Organizer and Chairman, Session on “Fundamentals of Radiative Heat Transfer”, ASME/AIChE National Heat Transfer Conference, July 24-28, 1983, Seattle, Washington.
– Session Organizer, Session on “Fundamentals of Heat Transfer in Solar Energy Systems”, ASME Winter Annual Meeting, December 9-12, 1984, New Orleans, Louisiana.
– Session Organizer, Session on “Phase Change Heat Transfer”, AIAA 20th Thermophysics Conference, June 19-21, 1985, Williamsburg, Virginia.
– Session Organizer, Session on “Fundamentals of Transient Convection”, 1985 ASME Winter Annual Meeting, Miami, Florida.
– Session Chairman, Session on “Fundamentals of Radiative Heat Transfer”, 1988 ASME/AIChE National Heat Transfer Conference, Houston, Texas.
– Session Chairman, Session on “Heat Transfer in Plumes and Jets” 1989 AIAA Aerospace Sciences Conference, Reno, Nevada.
– Session Co-Chairman, Session on “Fundamentals of Phase Change -Freezing, Melting and Sublimation”, 1989 National Heat Transfer Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 6-9.
– Session Co-Organizer and Chairman, Session on “Fundamentals of Natural Convection”, at the 1990 AIAA/ASME Thermophysics and Heat Transfer Conference, Seattle, Washington.
– Session Organizer, Session on” Fundamentals of Phase Change -Freezing, Melting and Sublimation”, 1990 ASME Winter Annual Meeting, Dallas, Texas.
– Session Organizer and Chairman, Session on “Radiation Heat Transfer ” 3rd JSME/ASME Thermal Engineering Joint Conference, Reno, Nevada, March 17-21, 1991.
– Session Organizer and Chairman, ASME National Heat Transfer Conference, Session on “Containerless Processing and Manufacturing”, Minnesota, July 27-31, 1991.
– Session Organizer and Co-chairman, Session on “Fundamentals of Phase Change: Freezing, Melting and Sublimation”, ASME Winter Annual Meeting 1992.
– Session Organizer and Chairman, Session on “Significant Questions in Heat Transfer: Issues in Small-Scale Heat Transfer” ASME Winter Annual Meeting 1992.
– Session Chairman and Organizer, “Heat Transfer in Electrostatic, Magnetic and Acoustic Fields,” ASME National Heat Transfer Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, August 9-12, 1993.
– Session Chairman and Organizer, “Radiative Heat Transfer: Current Research,” The 6th AIAA/ASME Thermophysics and Heat Transfer Conference, Colorado Springs, Colorado, June 20-23, 1994.
– Symposium Chairman and Organizer, “Heat Transfer Symposium,” ASME The
1995 Energy-sources Technology Conference and Exhibition (ETCE ’95), Houston, Texas, January 29 – February 1, 1995.
– Session Chairman, “Non-Equilibrium Radiative Heat Transfer”, AIAA Thermophysics Conference, San Diego, California, June 23, 1995.
– Session Organizer, “Fundamentals of Radiative Heat Transfer”, ASME National Heat Transfer Conference, Portland, Oregon, August 6, 1995.
– Symposium Chairman and Organizer, ASME “Heat Transfer Symposium, The 1996 Energy-Sources Technology Conference, Energy Week Conference & Exhibitions, Houston, Texas, January 29 – February 2, 1996.
– Session Chairman and Organizer, “Fundamentals of Heat Transfer”, 31st ASME, National Heat Transfer Conference, August 3-6, 1996.
– Faculty Liaison for the Technical Presentations for the Society of Women Engineers Annual Convention and Exhibition and Technical Program Co-Chair, June 1998.
– Member, US Scientific Committee for 1998 International Heat Transfer
Conference, August 1998, Korea.
– Member, International Scientific Committee of IHMT Int. Symposium on Radiative Transfer, Kusadasi, Turkey, 1997.
– Member, International Advisory Committee of Second Trabzon
International Energy and Environment Symposium (TIEES), July 1998.
– Member, Scientific Committee of Turkish National Conference on Thermal Sciences and Technologies, September 8-10, 1999.
– Member, ASME HTD Honors and Awards Committee, 1995-97.
– Chairman, ASME HTD Honors and Awards Committee, 1997
– Member, International Program Committee for ESDA 2002, 6th Biennial Conference on Engineering Systems Design and Analysis, July 8-11, 2002, Istanbul, Turkey.
– Member, Technical Advisory Committee of 2nd International Conference on Computational Heat and Mass Transfer, October 22-26, 2001, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
– Member, US Scientific Committee of 2002 International Heat Transfer Conference, August 2002, Grenoble, France.
– Member, ASME Heat Transfer Division (HTD) Executive Committee, 1999-2005
– IMECE 2002 HTD Technical Program Representative, New Orleans November 17-20, 2002.
– Member, Scientific Council, International Center for Heat and Mass Transfer, elected August 2002, Grenoble, France
– Chair of the Heat Transfer Divison of the ASME, 2003-04.
– Co-Chair of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Microscale Heat Transfer- Fundamental and Applications, July 16- July 31, 2004, Cesme, Turkey.
– Co-Chair ASME Heat Transfer/Fluids Engineering (HT/FE) SHT Conference, Charlotte, NC, July 11-14, 2004.
– ASME Appointed US Representative of International Center of the Heat and Mass Transfer (ICHMT), 2005-2010
– Scientific Committee Member of the 5th International Conference on Computational Heat and Mass Transfer, Alberta, Radisson Hotel & Conference Center Canmore, Canmore, Alberta, Canada, June 18-22, 2007.
– Scientific Committee Member of the Fifth International Symposium on Radiation Transfer, June 23-26, 2007, in Bodrum, Turkey.
-Co-Chair of the International Conference on the ASME 1st Micro/Nanoscale Heat & Mass Transfer (MNHMT08), Taiwan, 5-9 January 2008.
– International Scientific Committee Member, ICCHMT, Guangzhou, China. May 18-21, 2009.
-Co-Chair of the International Conference on the ASME 2nd Micro/Nanoscale Heat & Mass Transfer (MNHMT09), Shanghai on 18-21 December 2009.
– Member, ASME HTD, K-3 Honors and Awards Committee 2008-10.
– Chair, ASME HTD, K-3 Honors and Awards Committee 2010-11.
-International Center of Heat and Mass Transfer, Executive Committee member, elected member, 2008-2010. 2010-2014. Vice Chair 2012, Chair 2013-14.
– Scientific Committee Member of the Fifth International Symposium on Radiation Transfer, June 5-10, 2010, in Antalya, Turkey.
– Chair, The First International Symposium on Thermal and Materials Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (TMNN-2011) May 29-June 3, 2011 Antalya, Turkey.
– Elected member of the Executive Committee of the ICHMT 2011-2015.
– Vice-Chair of the Executive Committee of the ICHMT, 2011.
– Chair of the Executive Committee of the ICHMT, 2012-2014.
– Scientific Committee Member, 6th International conference on Thermal Engineering, Alexandria, Egypt January 9-11, 2012.
– Conference Board Member, ASME 2012 3rd Micro/Nanoscale Heat and Mass Transfer International Conference, March 3-6, 2012 Atlanta, Georgia.
– Scientific Committee Member, International Workshop on Nano-Micro Thermal Radiation, May 23-25, 2012, Taikanso, Matsushima Bay, Japan.
– ASME Heat Transfer Division 75th year celebration organizing committee member. 2011-2013.
– Scientific Committee Member, International Symposium on Convective Heat and Mass Transfer CONV-14, Cesme, Turkey, June 1st-6th, 2014.
– Scientific Committee Member, 2nd International Workshop on Nano-Micro Thermal Radiation, Taikanso, Shanghai, China, June 6-9, 2014.
– Scientific Committee Member, 10th International Conference on Conference Board Member, ASME 2012 5th Micro/Nanoscale Heat and Mass Transfer International Conference, Singapore, January 4th-6th, 2016.
– Scientific Committee Member, 8th International Symposium on Radiative Transfer (RAD-16), 6 – 10 June 2016, Cappadocia, Turkey.
– Scientific Committee Member, Computational Heat, Mass and Momentum Transfer (ICCHM2T 2017, 28 May-1 June 2017, Seoul, Korea.
-International Center of Heat and Mass Transfer, Executive Committee member, 2014-2018.
Chair, International Center of Heat and Mass Transfer, Executive Committee, 2016-2018
-International Scientific Committee Member of 11th International Conference on Computational Heat and Mass Transfer, 21-24 May, 2018 Cracow, Poland.
– Member, ASME Committee of Honors (COH), July 1, 2014-2020.
–Chair, ASME Committee of Honors (COH) 2017-2020.
-Scientific Committee Member of 8 the International Symposium on Advances in Computational Heat Transfer CHT-21August 15 –19, 2021.
-Scientific Committee Member of Conference on Computational Heat and Mass Transfer, May 18-21, 2021 Paris France.
–Vice-President, International Center of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2018-2022.
-Conference Organizer and Track Chair, TUBA, Int. Energy Conference, Istanbul, Turkey 2021, Energy Materials Track Organizer.
-Scientific Committee Member of 7 the International Symposium on Convective Heat Transfer, CON.-22 June 5-8, 2022.
– Honorary Editorial Board Member of the ICHMT Journal, 2020- current.
-President, International Center of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2023.
-Scientific Committee Member of 10th International Symposium on Radiative Transfer, Rad-23, 12-16 June, 2023, Greece.
-Scientific Committee Member of 14th International Conference on Computational Heat and Mass Transfer, September, 2023, Dusseldorf, Germany.
-William Begell Medal Recipient Selection Committee member for IHTC2022/23 Cape Town, 2022-2026.