He is the President of the International Sustainable Aviation Research Society (SARES), which actively supports scientists and students in the area of sustainable aviation. Professor Karakoc actively holds membership positions for the Chamber of Mechanical Engineers and many sectorial associations, international scientific organizations, and societies and is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Association for Green Energy. He serves as an Editor-in-Chief, guest editor, and editorial board member for international scientific journals and has published papers in various national and international journals, conferences, and books. He has participated in numerous industrial projects on these topics as a researcher, consultant, and project manager for over 30 projects and corporations.

Professor Karakoc has a wide range of research interests, including sustainable aviation, aircraft propulsion systems, insulation, heating, ventilating and air conditioning, indoor air quality, gas turbines, cogeneration systems, renewable energy, energy economics, fuels, and combustion. from Anadolu University, where he started his full-time teaching. in Mechanical Engineering from the Yildiz Technical University, and his Ph.D. He received his undergraduate degree from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Anadolu University, his M.Sc. Hikmet Karakoc, Ph.D., is a Full Professor with the Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Eskisehir Technical University and the Information Technology Research and Application Center at Istanbul Ticaret University.

Covers a range of emerging topics Addresses current issues on autonomous vehicles and unmanned aircraft Full proceedings of ISUDEF 2021 held at Howard University.

ISUDEF allows researchers, scientists, engineers, practitioners, policymakers, and students to exchange information, present new technologies and developments, and discuss future direction, strategies, and priorities in the field of autonomous vehicles and unmanned aircraft technologies. This book comprises the proceedings of the 2021 International Symposium on Unmanned Systems and the Defense Industry (ISUDEF), a multi-disciplinary conference on a broad range of current research and issues in areas such as autonomous technology, unmanned aircraft technologies, avionics, radar systems, air defense, aerospace robotics and mechatronics, and aircraft technology design. Unmanned systems are one of the fastest-growing and widely developing technologies in the world, offering many possibilities for a variety of research fields.

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