Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, 1985

Mechanical Engineering, Middle East Technical University (METU), 1980

Mechanical Engineering, Middle East Technical University (METU), 1978

Ankara Science High School

Director of the Center for Energy, Environment and Economy (CEEE)
The Founding Head of Mechanical Engineering Department (2009-2019)

Pinar Menguc, after graduating from Ankara Science High School, received his BS and MS degrees from ODTU/METU in Ankara, Turkey, and his PhD from Purdue University, USA in 1985. He joined to the University of Kentucky and promoted to the ranks of associate professor and professor in 1988 and 1993, respectively, and eventually selected as the Engineering Alumni Association Chair Professor in 2008. He was a visiting professor at Università Degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy during 1991, and at Harvard University, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA during should be 1998-1999 academic year.

He joined Özyeğin University, Istanbul in 2009 as the founding Head of Mechanical Engineering. The same year, he established CEEE/EÇEM. Mengüç’s research areas include radiative transfer, nanoscale transport phenomena, applied optics and sustainable energy applications. Over the years, he has guided more than 70 MS and PhD students, and postdocs researchers.

He is the author/coauthor of more than 150 archival papers, 220 conference publications, four books, and several book chapters. He holds six patents, including a triadic patent. Since 2008, he is one of the three Editors in Chief of Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer (JQSRT ). Mengüç received a R&D 100 Award in 2005 based on a particle characterization technique they developed with the startup company STI in the USA. He also received 2014 Knowledge Transfer Award (2014) and 2015 Outstanding Researcher Award (2015), both from Ozyegin University, and the ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) Heat Transfer Memorial Award in the category of Art in 2018. In 2020 he was chosen as an Outstanding Mechanical Engineer by the Purdue University School of Mechanical Engineering. In 2024, he was presented the Mustafa Parlar Foundation Honor Award.

Mengüç is an elected member of Science Academy of Turkey and served in its Executive Board from 2018 to 2024.

Radiative heat transfer; nanoscale transport phenomena; applied optics; energy conservation and innovations in buildings.