Ver Planck Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Associate Director, Engineering Research Accelerator
Courtesy Appointments, Biomedical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering
Co-director, Pennsylvania Infrastructure Technology Alliance (PITA)
Burak Ozdoganlar is currently Ver Planck endowed chair professor of Mechanical Engineering and the associate director of the Engineering Research Accelerator. He also holds courtesy faculty positions in Biomedical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering. Ozdoganlar received two M.S. degrees from The Ohio State University in 1993 and 1995, and his Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Michigan in 1999. Before joining Carnegie Mellon in 2004, he held positions at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a postdoctoral research associate, and at the Sandia National Laboratories as a senior member of technical staff.
His primary research interests include modeling and experimentation of manufacturing processes and systems, specializing in multi-scale (macro/micro/nano-) manufacturing and its applications (including medical and biomedical device fabrication); precision engineering; modeling and experimental approaches in structural dynamics; and modal testing and analysis.
He has co-authored more than 60 archival journal articles, and more than 80 conference articles. In the recent past, he served as associate technical editor for ASME J. Manufacturing Science and Engineering, and for the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) J. Manufacturing Processes. Since 2008, he has been a member of the Scientific Committee of North American Manufacturing Research Institution of SEM.
Ozdoganlar has also been active in professional societies: he is a founder and past-president (2011-2012) of International Institution of Micro Manufacturing (I2M2), and he is a former chair of the ASME-MED manufacturing equipment technical committee. He is a member of the Phi Kappa Phi and Sigma Xi honor societies, SME/NAMRI, ASME, and ASEE. His recent awards and recognitions include the 2011 ASME Blackall Machine Tool and Gage Award; the SME 2007 Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer award; the 2006 NSF/CAREER award; the 2008 NAMRI/SME Outstanding Paper award; and the Russell V. Trader Career Faculty Fellowship at CMU (2009-2011).
1999 Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
1995 MS, Mechanical Engineering, Ohio State University
1993 MS, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Ohio State University
1991 BS, Aeronautical Engineering, Istanbul Technical University
National Academy of Engineering
MechE’s Burak Ozdoganlar was featured as a webinar speaker and round-table discussion panelist hosted by the National Academy of Engineering. He shared his research on hybrid microneedle array systems and their potential for improving vaccine delivery.
Medical Plastics News
A research project lead by MechE’s Burak Ozdoganlar was featured in Medical Plastics News, explaining how 3D printing microneedles could radically change world's response to vaccine distribution for the coronavirus.
Mechanical Engineering
Collaborators are developing a novel approach to inoculation that addresses both immunological effectiveness and manufacturing efficiency.
CMU Engineering
To impact COVID-19 vaccination in the developing world, collaborators develop and test a new hybrid microneedle array platform capable of delivering vaccines directly into the skin.
PITA
A PITA project has led to commercially viable, soft-matter printed electronics for wearable health monitoring.
Mechanical Engineering
Despite the coronavirus shutdown, researchers and students were creative about continuing their work and joining the fight against COVID-19.
Mechanical Engineering
MechE’s Burak Ozdoganlar helped create a clear, acrylic containment box that significantly reduces the risk of spreading COVID-19 to medical workers.
Mechanical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University and Heritage Valley Health System team up to engineer protective boxes that shield healthcare workers against viral exposure during intubation procedures.
Health care workers are particularly vulnerable to exposure to COVID-19 during intubation procedures when patients can expel a broad spray of infectious fluid. Burak Ozdoganlar, the Ver Planck Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and collaborators in the Heritage Valley Health System in Western Pennsylvania have a solution—a clear, acrylic containment box that significantly reduces the risk of spreading the coronavirus.
CMU Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University will provide microneedle drug delivery patches to support COVID-19 vaccination and treatment research.
the Accelerator
The College of Engineering is pleased to announce that the College will fund two Moonshot proposals as winners of the Moonshot 2020 competition, as well as one College of Engineering Planning Award.
MechE’s Sarah Bergbreiter and Burak Ozdoganlar were named 2019 Fellows in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).