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Asst. Prof. Dr. Emin Taner ELMAS is a Mechanical Engineer having degrees of B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D., and was born in Sivas in 1974. He completed his doctorate at Ege University, Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Mechanical Engineering Department, Thermodynamics Science Branch, and his master's degree at Dokuz Eylül University, Mechanical Engineering Department, Energy Science Branch. He also completed his undergraduate education at Hacettepe University, ZEF, Mechanical Engineering Department and graduated from the faculty with honors in 1995 and became a mechanical engineer. He was awarded a non-refundable scholarship by the Turkish Chamber of Mechanical Engineers in his 4th year because he was the most succesful student during his first 3 classes study at the faculty. He graduated from İzmir Atatürk High School in 1991. Asst. Prof. Dr. ELMAS has completed his military service as a NATO Officer in BosniaandHerzegovina. He was a “ReservedOfficer” as a “2nd Lieutenant” as an “English-Turkish Interpreter”. He wasalso a “Guard Commander” andserved in Sarajevo, CampButmirwithinthe SFOR taskforce of NATO. He has beenawardedwith 2 (two) NATO MedalsandTurkishArmedForces Service Certificate of Pride (Bosnia&Herzegovina). In addition to his academic duties at universities, he has worked as an engineer and manager in various industrial institutions, organizations and companies; He has served as Construction Site Manager, Project Manager, Management Representative, Quality Manager, Production Manager, Energy Manager, CSO-CTO, CBDO, Factory Manager, Deputy General Manager and General Manager. Asst. Prof. Dr. Elmas is Department Head and is an Assistant Professor of Automotive Technology at the Department of Motor Vehicles and Transportation Technologies at Vocational School of Higher Education for Technical Sciences at IGDIR UNIVERSITY, Turkey. He is also an Assistant Professor of Bioengineering &BioSciences at the same university. He has nearly 30 years of total experience in academiaand in industry. He has served as a scientific referee and panelist for ASME, TUBITAK and many scientific institutions, organizations and universities, including NASA. “Mechanical Engineering, Energy Transfer, Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics, Heat Transfer, Higher Mathematics, Evaporation, Heat Pipes, Space Sciences, Automotive, Bioengineering, Medical Engineering Applications, Neuroengineering, Medical Technique” are his academic and scientific fields of study; “Heating-Ventilation Air Conditioning Applications, Pressure Vessels, Heat Exchangers, Energy Efficiency, Steam Boilers, Power Plants, Cogeneration, Water Purification, Water Treatment, Industrial Equipment and Machinery, Welding Manufacturing, Sheet Metal Forming, Machining” are his industrial experience fields. Asst. Prof. Dr. Emin Taner ELMAS is also a musician, saz (baglama) virtuoso player and ney (Nay, Turkish Reed Flute) performer. He has a YouTube Music Channel (Emin Taner ELMAS) which includes some of his sound recordings of him playing the saz-baglama and blowing the ney. He composed the poem written by the great poet Âşık Veysel ŞATIROĞLU under the name of “Raşit Bey” in memory of his father Judge (Hâkim) Raşit ELMAS as “Raşit Bey Türküsü”, wrote it down, notated and published it as an academic article and broadcasted this song on his own music channel. He wrote the poems entitled “CanımBabam” and “Geldim Babam” which he wrote also in memory of his father and published in an academic literature journal, and composed instrumental musics for these poems. He also composed an instrumental song called “AnnemAnnem Türküsü” and gave it to his mother, Lawyer Tuna ELMAS, as a gift on Mother’s Day, 11.05.2025. He also has a poem titled "Ney and Neyzen." He also wrote and presented a poem titled "Esra Kardeşim" to his sister, Esra ELMAS, an archaeologist and English teacher. He has published books including "Saz-Bağlama Tuning System Method" (“Saz- BağlamaAkortSistemiMetodu”) and "Ney and Neyzen; Ney's Pitches, Frets, Sound Stages, Octaves, Structure, Performance,Ney Maintenance and Basic Music Theory" (Ney ve Neyzen; Ney’de Perdeler, Ses Devreleri, Oktavlar, Yapısı, İcrası, Ney Bakımıile Temel MusikiNazariyatı). He continues his artistic studies by writing various articles, books, poetry, lyrics and also realizing musical composition and repertoire works.