Ümit ÜNVER earned his Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1998, followed by a Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering (Thermodynamics and Energy Department) in 2000, and a Ph.D. in the same field in 2004, all from Uludağ University.
In 1999, he joined the Mechanical Engineering Department at Uludağ University as a Research and Teaching Assistant. After completing his doctorate, he was appointed as a Lecturer in 2005.
From 2006 to 2011, he gained industrial experience as a C-level executive. In 2011, he joined the Faculty of Engineering at Yalova University as an Assistant Professor.
Throughout his career, Dr. ÜNVER has held several key administrative and advisory roles, including Coordinator of the Founding Committee for Yalova University Technopark, Coordinator for Public University-Industry Collaborations (KÜSİ), Deputy Director and Director of the Yalova University Science and Technology Applied and Research Center, and Advisor to the Rector. In 2018, he was promoted to Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. In 2024 he was promoted to Professor in the same department.
His research focuses on energy efficiency in buildings, green buildings, zero energy buildings, energy efficiency in industry, thermodynamic analysis, energy conversion systems, and induction heating systems. By the end of 2021, he had published over 60 papers and articles on these topics. Additionally, he has served as an executive, consultant, observer, and referee in more than 30 projects.
H. Metin Ertunc received the B.S. degree from electrical and electronics engineering department at Hacettepe University in 1991 in Ankara, Turkey. He obtained his MS degree from Systems and Control Engineering Department and PhD. Degree from electrical engineering and computer science department at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA, in 1995 and 1999, respectively. Currently, Dr. Ertunc is a professor at Mechatronics Engineering Department at Kocaeli University. His research interests include automatic control and monitoring systems, fault detection based on signal processing techniques, artificial neural networks.