Dr. Gökçin Çınar

Biography

Gökçin Çınar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan. He is the Principal Investigator of the Integrated Design Environmentally-friendly Aerospace Systems (IDEAS) Lab. His research interests focus on aerospace systems design, integration, and optimization, with a special emphasis on electrified aircraft concepts and sustainable aviation. His approach involves the use of model-based engineering and probabilistic statistical methods to analyze and understand the design of complex aerospace vehicle systems. Çınar is an active member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), serving as the Publications and Policy Chair of the Electrified Aircraft Technical Committee. He is also involved in the Organizing Committee for the AIAA/IEEE Electric Aircraft Technologies Symposium (EATS). Prior to his position at the University of Michigan, Çınar worked as a Research Engineer at the Aerospace Systems Design Lab at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he contributed to research projects funded by government and industry in sustainable aviation concepts and electrified propulsion system architectures. His doctoral work culminated in the development of a software tool named “Electrified Propulsion Architecture Sizing Synthesis (E-PASS)”, which is used for conceptual design and performance evaluation of advanced aircraft concepts, including both electrified and non-electrified systems.

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