Tuncer cebeci biography

Tuncer Cebeci (born August 25, 1934 – March 28, 2021) was a Turkish-American mechanical engineer and academic.
August 25, 1934 – March 28, 2021 Born and raised in Turkey, Tuncer Cebeci graduated from Robert College, Turkey, with B.S. degrees in.
August 25, 1934 - March 28, 2021 Born and raised in Turkey, Tuncer Cebeci graduated from Robert College, Turkey, with B.S. degrees in electrical and.

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Tuncer Cebeci, Turkish aircraft manufacturing company executive, educator. Fellow American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (associate, Fluid and Plasma Dynamics award 1984); member American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Background

Cebeci, Tuncer was born on August 25, 1934 in Akcakoca, Turkey. Came to the United States, 1959. Son of Omer Zihni and Rabia (Kara) Cebeci.

Education

Biosystems Engineering.E., Robert College, Istanbul, Turkey, 1958. Business Systems Modernization-Energy, Robert College, Istanbul, Turkey, 1959. Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering, Duke University, 1961.

Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering, North Carolina State University, 1964.

Career

Senior engineer Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, California, 1965-1972, section manager, 1972-1974, chief aerodynamics engineer, 1974-1982, staff director aerodynamics research and technical department, since 1982. Professor mechanical engineer

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Tuncer Cebeci

Turkish AMerican engineer and academic (1934–2021)

Tuncer Cebeci (born August 25, 1934 – March 28, 2021) was a Turkish-American mechanical engineer and academic. He worked at Douglas Aircraft Company, and later he founded and chaired the Aerospace Engineering Department at California State University in Long Beach, USA. He authored books and scientific articles on fluid dynamics.

Early years and education

Tuncer Cebeci was born to Rabia and Ömer on August 25, 1934 in Turkey. He had a brother, Dinçer (1938–2004), who was a lawyer and racing horses owner.^[1] He was raised in Turkey, and graduated from Robert College in Istanbul with B.S. degrees in electrical and mechanical engineering. He then went to the United States, and attended Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, where he received an M.S. degree in mechanical engineering. In 1963, he married at New Hope Methodist Church in Winston-Salem, North Carolina to Sylvia Ann Holt (born 1941),^[2] whom he had met at the university two years prior. The next year, Cebeci received h

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August 25, 1934 – March 28, 2021 Born and raised in Turkey, Tuncer Cebeci graduated from Robert College, Turkey, with B.S. degrees in electrical and mechanical engineering. He came to North Carolina, where he received an M.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Duke University. In 1961, he discovered the love of his life, a Duke undergraduate student from Winston-Salem named Sylvia Ann Holt. Tuncer and Sylvia were married in 1963 at New Hope Methodist Church in Winston-Salem. After receiving his doctorate in mechanical engineering from North Carolina State in 1964, Tuncer, Sylvia, and their new daughter Rabia moved west to Long Beach, where Tuncer joined Douglas Aircraft Company as a research scientist. He was promoted to head of the aerodynamics research department in 1974 and eventually become the company’s first senior fellow in 1982.Tuncer received the prestigious Fluid and Plasma Dynamics Award from the Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) in 1984. He also became the first distinguished professor in the mechanical engineering department of California State Unive