Mustafa ARAZ, Research Assisstant Department of Energy Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Yaşar University, 35100 Bornova, Izmir, Turkey Tel: +90 232 411 56 04 Fax: +90 232 374 54 74 E-mail: mustafa.araz@yasar.edu.tr PERSONAL INFORMATION Citizenship : Republic of Turkey Place of Birth : Karaman / Turkey Date of Birth : 23 / 08 / 1986 Marital Status : Single EDUCATION PhD in Mechanical Engineering (Thermodynamics), Ege University, 2013 (attending). MS in Mechanical Engineering (Thermodynamics), Ege University, 2013. BS in Mechanical Engineering, Ege University, 2010. EXPERIENCE Research Assisstant, Department of Energy Systems Engineering, Yasar University, İzmir Turkey (2012 - present). FOREIGN LANGUAGES English: Advanced German: Intermediate (Deutsche Sprach Diplom certificate) PUBLICATIONS Mustafa ARAZ, Ali GÜNGÖR, Arif HEPBAŞLI, “Assessment of the use of low global warming potential (LGWP) refrigerants in refrigeration applications” 11. Ulusal Tesisat Kongresi ve Sodex Fuarı (TESKON 2013), 17-20 April 2013. Mustafa ARAZ, Ali GÜNGÖR, Hakan Yaldırak, Hüseyin Günhan ÖZCAN, “Utilization possibilities of R-1234yf in automobile industry”, 1. Ulusal İklimlendirme Soğutma Eğitimi Sempozyumu ve Sergisi, 13-15 September 2012. Ali GÜNGÖR, Mustafa ARAZ, “Devolopment of a solar collector with panel absorber”, Anadolu Enerji Sempozyumu, 22-24 June 2011. ATTENDED COURSES & PROJECTS 2013 – International Summer University on Renewable Energies V (ISUenergy 2013) 2013 - Summer Course on Exergy and Its Applications 2013 - Energy Efficiency in Buildings and in the İndustry. 2013 - Exergy Based Approaches in Heat Loss-Gain Calculations. 2013 - 2nd Renewable Energy Systems Winter School “ Special Topics”. 2013 - Design of an Elevator Air Conditioning Unit Using R-1234yf (This is my master thesis and it’s supported by the Republic of Turkey Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology.). 2012 - Introduction to Ansys Fluent. 2010 - Development of a Solar Collector with Panel Absorber (This was my bachelor thesis, and it is carried out at a factory in Turkey. A novel thermal solar collector is produced and proper efficiency tests of the produced collector are carried out according to TS EN 12975-1 and TS EN 12975-1 standards.). 2009 - Planetary reducer design for wind turbines. 2009 - Wind turbine blade design. PROFFESSIONAL MEMBERSHİPS Union of Chambers of Turkish Engineers and Architects (UCTEA) Chamber of Mechanical Engineers