CETA Welcomes New Faculty

Three new faculty members are teaching in CETA this semester.

Dr. Christian Carloni comes to Architecture from the University of Bologna (Italy)to teach AET 355, Engineering Mechanics for Engineering Technology, and to coordinate the structures sequence for the College. He is a structural engineer who has worked on various restoration projects in Italy, and his research interests are fracture mechanics, masonry structures and composite materials. A licensed engineer, Dr. Carloni holds a five-year bachelor’s degree in civil engineering and a doctoral degree in structural mechanics from the University of Bologna. He is currently a member of the Italian Association for Structural Analysis and the Italian Association for Engineers.

Dr. Christian Carloni

Dr. C. Cy Yavuzturk received his Diplom-Ingenieur degree from the Technical University of Berlin (Germany) in energy and process engineering and his Ph.D. from the Oklahoma State University in Mechanical Engineering. Before joining Mechanical Engineering here in CETA, Dr. Yavuzturk was a tenured associate professor at the University of Wyoming (1999 to 2008), research engineering at the Oklahoma State University (1994 to 1999), and held various engineering positions in the U.S. defense industry and at the Technical University of Berlin. His research interest include thermodynamics; heat, mass, and momentum transfer; thermal systems modeling and simulation; energy efficient systems design and renewable energy technologies, energy analysis and management; thermal energy storage; numerical modeling and inverse methods; HVAC-R equipment; and geothermal and solar energy utilization. He is an active member of the American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE); Dr. Yavuzturk is currently the National Chair of the ASHRAE Solar Energy Utilization Technical Committee.

Dr. Cy Yavuzturk

Dr. Ying Yu joins Electrical and Computer Engineering from her post-doctoral research project, “Hands-Free Voice Interface for Video Gaming Environment,” which she conducted in Trento, Italy. Her project was sponsored by the Province of Trento and conducted at her host research institute was the Fondazione Bruno Kessler. Before that, Dr. Uy earned her Bachelor’s of Engineering at Fudan University, in Shanghai, China, and her Master’s and Ph.D. from Brown University. Her research interests lie in digital signal processing, speech processing, speaker recognition, talker localization, acoustic echo cancellation, and hands-free voice interaction systems for video gaming environments. Dr. Yu is a member of IEEE. She tells us that she loves all things Harry Potter and playing basketball.

Dr. Ying Yu

CETA welcomes all of our new colleagues.