Joining Our Group

Photo from our latest social event at the backyard of our department.

If you would like to join our group as a graduate student please refer to the below instructions:


For prospective students:

First, thank you for your interest in joining our research group as an MS/PhD student. Below, you can find some essential information:

if METU Student

  • Please send me a letter of intent explaining possible topics for your MS/PhD studies. A brief literature survey is highly encouraged. 

else

Please send me

  • A letter of intent explaining possible topics for your MS/PhD studies. A brief literature survey is highly encouraged.
  • Your CV
  • Transcript 
  • A reference letter from your previous supervisor (not mandatory if you are from ITU Aeronautics and Astronautics Departments since I can directly contact the professors there).

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In our department, it is mandatory to have an advisor consent letter for your graduate application. I will provide the letter after I accept your application.

Since we have a quota for total graduate students whom we can work with, I screen all the applications and make a selection among them. The exact number may change, but usually, I can accept 2-3 students every semester. The priority varies as well from semester to semester, but it is more or less given to: 

  • Our department students, specifically if you took one of my technical elective courses such as AE486 and AE484 or completed a project under my supervision.
  • Students who are not working for a company and would like to pursue an academic career. 
  • Students who are working for a company that we have a joint project. 

If you are an undergraduate student who would like to join one of the projects, send me an e-mail briefly explaining your motivation.