Dr. Yaman Yener was Senior Associate Dean of Engineering for Faculty Affairs and Carl R. Hurtig Distinguished Professor of Engineering at Northeastern University, Boston, MA.  He received his BS (1968) and MS (1970) degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey, and his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from North Carolina State University in 1973.  He was on METU faculty from 1974 to 1980, holding positions as Assistant and Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering.  He served as the Chairman of the Mechanical Engineering Department at METU between 1978 and 1980.  He was at the University of Delaware as Visiting Associate Professor from 1980 to 1982. He subsequently joined Northeastern University as Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering in 1982.  He was Acting Chairman of the department from July 1989 through December 1990.

Dr. Yaman Yener was Associate Dean of Engineering for Research and Graduate Studies between 1993 and 2010. In that capacity, he served as Director of the Graduate School of Engineering, and coordinated and promoted research activities within the College.  Since 1993, he helped direct the College’s research efforts with a comprehensive and focused agenda to accomplish Northeastern’s mission of gaining recognition as a national research institution.  He supervised two interdisciplinary professional master’s programs: Information Systems and Telecommunication Systems Management.  Recently, he played a leadership role in the development of a new interdisciplinary PhD program in Bioengineering and a new professional master’s program in Energy Systems, both began in fall 2009.

As Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Dr. Yener maintained his own research program in transient radiation with short-pulse irradiation applications, radiative transfer in high-temperature aerosols, simultaneous radiation and other modes of heat transfer in radiatively participating media, transient forced convection and nano/microscale heat transfer.  He had published over 70 technical and research papers, co-authored two graduate-level books, Heat Conduction, Fifth Edition, CRC Press. July 6, 2018 and Convective Heat Transfer, Third Edition, CRC Press. December 17, 2013, and edited three conference proceedings. 

In recognition of his contributions to the field mechanical engineering and engineering education, Dr. Yener was elected a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering in 2000 and a Fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE).  From 2003 to 2006, he served as an elected Board Member of the Engineering Research Council (ERC) of ASEE.  He chaired the 2008 ASEE/ERC Forum on Engineering Research: Opportunities and Impact, and co-chaired the 2007 ASEE/ERC Forum on Engineering Research Challenges in a Changing World.  He was the member of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, Pi Mu Epsilon, Pi Tau Sigma, and an associate member of the Society of the Sigma Xi.