The College of Engineering has awarded the Boeing Global Engineering Leadership Professorship to Dr. Ramazan Asmatulu, professor in mechanical engineering.
The professorship, funded by the Boeing Company, is designed to support global education and research initiatives. It is retroactive from Oct. 8, 2023 and is a five-year term. Asmatulu held the same professorship for the previous five years, starting in 2018.
According to Dr. Anthony Muscat, dean of the college, Asmatulu was selected for his contributions to the globalization of the engineering profession, as well as his excellence in education and research within the college and beyond.
“Dr. Asmatulu will continue to pursue externally funded research that supports doctoral students, publish research findings with co-authorship from doctoral students, provide ongoing mentorship to these students and travel to conferences with doctoral students to present the results of their work,” Muscat said.
Asmatulu joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering as an assistant professor in 2006, became an associate professor in 2012 and became a full professor in 2017. Prior to WSU, he had post-doctoral and research and development (R&D) experiences at Virginia Tech, the University of Connecticut and Yale University.
Asmatulu is currently working with six doctoral, nine master’s degree and three bachelor’s degree students. He has graduated more than 150 master’s degree and doctoral students, received more than $6.3 Million in internal and external grants and published more than 500 technical articles with his students and collaborators. To date, Asmatulu’s scholarly activities have been cited more than 7,800 times (with an H-index of 48 and an i10-index of 160) according to Google Scholar.
