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This site uses the Open Source Content Management System Plone and has been designed to be completely accessible and usable, working in accordance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG v1.0). If there is anything on this site — accessibility or validation related — that is not according to the standard, please contact the Site Administration, and not the Plone Team.

Access keys

Access keys are a navigation device enabling you to get around this web site using your keyboard.

Available access keys

This site uses a setup that closely matches most international recommendations on access keys. These are:

  • 1 — Home Page
  • 2 — Skip to content
  • 3 — Site Map
  • 4 — Search field focus
  • 5 — Advanced Search
  • 6 — Site navigation tree
  • 9 — Contact information
  • 0 — Access Key details

Accessibility Statement

We have undertaken to use our knowledge and understanding of the ways in which different people access the Internet, to develop a web site that is clear and simple for everybody to use.

Validation

We have used XHTML 1.0 and CSS that conforms to specification, as laid out by the W3C because we believe that usability and accessibility must have a solid foundation. If anything on this web site does not validate correctly, please contact the Site Administration, and not the Plone Team.

We have also endeavoured to achieve AA accessibility as measured against version 1.0 of the WCAG. We are aware however, that a number of the checkpoints of the WCAG are subjective — and although we are sure that we have met them squarely, there may be instances where interpretation may vary.

About Sez

Sezer AtamturkturI attended the O.D.T.U earning my B.S. in Architecture and minoring in Civil Engineering with Structural option in 2002.

After working as an Architectural Engineer for two years, in 2004 I was awarded a full-time graduate assistantship to The Pennsylvania State University where my MS research consisted of modeling and nondestructive testing of Guastavino tile domed structures. I have studied the Guastavino domes of the City-County Building in Pittsburgh, PA and New York State Education Building in Albany, NY. Along with my studies on Guastavino style vaulting, I have conducted experimental and analytical research on the structural behavior of Gothic architecture, such as Washington National Cathedral in Washington D.C., Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in New York City, and the Basilica di Santa Maria Novella in Florence, Italy.

After completing my MS in Architectural Engineering - Structures option in 2006, I decided to continue my education at Penn State where I am currently pursuing a PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering - Structures option. My current research consists of probabilistic verification & validation of numerical models against experimental measurements.

My work has earned me a World University Network Fellowship to the University of Sheffield in the U.K. during Spring of 2007 to study The Beverly Minster. I am a recipient of the 2007 Dominick J. Demichele Scholarship Award, the 2007 James L. Noland Student Fellowship and the CERS Best Paper award. During the Spring and Summer semesters of 2008 I was privileged to work as a Graduate Research Assistant on an internship at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.