Koray Sekeroglu

Adjunct Assistant Professor
[email protected]
Education
  • Ph.D. - Engineering Science and Mechanics, Penn State University, University Park, PA. 2013.
  • B.S. - Chemical Engineering, Izmir Institute of Technology, Izmir, Turkey. 2006.
External Affiliations

Colder Products Company, Roseville, MN www.cpcworldwide.com

Areas of Interest

Fluid handling components, material testing, plastic failure analysis

Biography

Dr. Koray Sekeroglu currently works as a Senior Research Engineer in Colder Products Company. In his current role, he is responsible for performing research on new materials, developing new test methods, and exploring future technologies for fluid-handling connectors. Koray is also passionate about leak testing techniques. Prior to joining CPC, Koray was a visiting assistant professor in the physics department at Lebanon Valley College and a faculty instructor at Penn State University. He taught several engineering and physics courses including Statics, Strength of Materials, and Atomic and Nuclear Physics. He has 4.5 years of teaching experience and is very passionate about college education.

Teaching

  • BBE 2001 - Mechanics and Structural Design - Fall 2020
  • BBE 3012 - Transport in Biological Processes I - Fall 2019

Select Publications

  • Extrand, C.W., Sekeroglu, K., Vangsgard, K., “Liquid Leaks: Dripping versus Evaporation”, Langmuir 34, 40, 12002-12006 (2018)
  • Sekeroglu, K., Extrand, C.W., Burdge, D.A. “Drainage from a Fluid-Handling Component Due to Centrifugal Acceleration”, Langmuir 34, 21, 6046-6050 (2018)
  • Sekeroglu, K., Demirel, M.C., “A Digital Fluidic Device with Polymeric Textured Ratchets”, Journal of Polymers, Vol. 58, pg. 30-35 (2015)
  • Beighley, R., Spedden, E.M., Sekeroglu, K., Atherton, T., Demirel, M.C., Staii, C., “Neuronal Alignment on Asymmetric Textured Surfaces”, Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 101, article no. 143701 (2012)
  • Hancock, M., Sekeroglu, K., Demirel, M.C., “Bioinspired Directional Surfaces for Adhesion, Wetting, and Transport”, Advanced Functional Materials, Vol. 22, pg. 2223-2234 (2012)
  • Sekeroglu, K., Gurkan U, Hancock, M., Demirci,U, Demirel, M.C., “Transport of a Soft Cargo on a Nanoscale Ratchet”, Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 99, article no. 063703 (2011)
  • Christophis, C., Sekeroglu, K., Demirel, G., Thome, I., Grunze, M., Rosenhahn, A., Demirel, M.C., “Fibroblast Adhesion on Unidirectional Polymeric Nanofilms”, Biointerphases, 6, 158 (2011)
  • Malvadkar N., Sekeroglu, K., Dressick, W.J., Demirel, M.C., “Catalytic Activity of Cobalt on Nanotextured Polymer Films for Hydrogen Production”, Journal of Power Sources, Vol. 196, pg. 8553-8560 (2011)
  • Malvadkar, N., Hancock, M, Sekeroglu K., Dressick, W.J, Demirel, M.C, “An Engineered Anisotropic Nanofilm with Unidirectional Wetting Properties”, Nature Materials, Vol. 12, pg. 1023-1028 (2010)
  • Malvadkar, N., Sekeroglu, K., Dressick, W.J., Demirel, M.C. “Noncovalent Mechanism for the Conformal Metallization of Nanostructured Parylene Films”, Langmuir, vol. 26, pp 4382–4391 (2010)