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Y. Cengiz Toklu

Associated Professor Dr. Cengiz Toklu is chairman of the Civil Engineering Department, Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Dr. Toklu, after obtaining his PhD degree, served in Middle East Technical University Engineering Sciences Department as Assistantt Professor and also had an administrative work as Vice Head of the department. Between years 1982 and 1998 he was out of the academic life and worked essentially as a consultant or supervisor and directed many giant projects including  New Galata Bridge, a pontoon bridge,  2nd Bosporus Bridge, a suspension bridge,  Imrahor Bridge, a balanced cantilever bridge,  Ankara light railed system,  Izmir-Cesme and Izmir-Aydin Motorways, etc. He was chief consultant to Highways Department in the preparation of contract documents of the Izmit Bay Suspension Bridge (2800m span) and the related motorway.
In 1998 he returned to academic life at Eastern Mediterranean University in Northern Cyprus and joined Cyprus International University at 2004 first as Acting Dean, and then as Vice Dean of the Engineering Faculty, Chair of the Civil Engineering Department and Acting Chair of the Computer Engineering Department. In 2005, he has joined Bahçeşehir University assuming chairmanship of the Mechatronics Engineering Department. Since 2008 he is the founder head of the Civil Engineering Department of Yeditepe University. He also teaches at the Aeronautics and Space Technologies Institute (ASTIN) in Istanbul. He is author of more than 40 technical publications in Turkish, English and French. He has supervised more than 10 MS theses.
Dr. Toklu is reviewer for several journals. His memberships include Turkish Chamber of Civil Engineers; Turkish Informatics Society; Turkish - French Association of Engineers; Yollar Turk Milli Komitesi (Turkish Road Association); ASCE Structural Engineering Institute, Emerging Computing Technologies Committee; European Group for Intelligent Computing in Engineering (EG-ICE); Turkiye Kopru ve Insaat Cemiyeti (Turkish Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering); European Chapter of Metaheuristics (EU/ME). He is Founding member of the non-profit corporation The Space Resources Roundtable, Inc. He is a representative of Turkey in United Nations Committee for Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN-COPUOS).
Link to personal homepage:
http://www.yeditepe.edu.tr/yeditepe/GetFile.aspx?nodeid=25968
Link to departmental homepage:
http://www.yeditepe.edu.tr/
Contacts:
E-mail address: ctoklu@yeditepe.edu.tr
Phone: (90) 216-578 00 00, Fax: (90) 216 – 578 04 00 
Areas of specialization:
a) Structural design and analysis by optimization methods.
b) Construction scheduling using metaheuristic algorithms.
c) Design and construction of structures in space.
d) Engineering education.
Education:
BSc 1967   Middle East Technical University, Civil  Engeneering
MSc 1969   Middle East Technical University, Civil  Engineering
PhD 1976   Université de Paris VI, Mécanique Théorique et Appliquée