Biography:
Pelin Berik Giwa is a lecturer in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UCF. Giwa was a visiting assistant professor at Loyola Marymount University in the Department of Physics in Los Angeles, California. She received her doctorate degree in mechatronics engineering from Johannes Kepler University and her diplom degree in mechanical engineering from Vienna University of Technology. Berik Giwa was a visiting professor at UCLA in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and a postdoctoral researcher at California State University, North Carolina State University and Virginia Tech. Her research areas are piezoelectric actuators and materials, and nanotechnology applications in aerospace. Her Ph.D. thesis was based on piezoelectric torsion actuators to control torsional vibrations in flexible space and aerospace structures. Berik Giwa investigated nanotechnology applications in aerospace.
