İsmail Demir was born in 1960 in Elazığ. He completed his primary education in Ankara and Eskişehir; He completed his secondary and high school education in Eskişehir. He graduated from Istanbul Technical University (ITU) Aeronautical Engineering Department in 1982. After working as a research assistant at Uludağ University and ITU for one year, he went to the USA in 1985 with a scholarship from the Ministry of National Education for his master's and doctoral studies.
He received his master's degree in applied mechanics from the University of Michigan and in aerospace and aviation from Purdue University. In 1989, he started to work on solid body mechanics, fracture mechanics and materials as part of his doctorate education. He also worked as a research assistant on various subjects in this department, where he received the best graduate researcher award. He also took part in research conducted within research institutions such as Livermore and Pacific Northwest Laboratories. He graduated from Washington State University Mechanical Engineering Department with a doctorate in 1992.
In May 1992; He worked on semiconductor single crystal growth as a post-doctoral researcher in British Columbia and Victoria universities in Canada. In 1993, he started to work as an assistant professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department of King Saud University, Saudi Arabia.
In 1997, he received the title of associate professor in aircraft elements and materials from ITU Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics. During this period, he went to the USA to participate in various research projects for short periods and conducted research on materials, numerical modeling, micro and mesomechanics and nanotechnology as a part-time researcher in Livermore, Northwest Pacific National Laboratories, Washington State University Materials Research Center and mechanical engineering departments.
In 2002, he started to work as a researcher at the Center for Materials Research at Washington State University, took part in DARPA projects and conducted research on micro electromechanical systems.
In late 2003, he returned to Turkey on the invitation of Turkish Airlines began his career as head of training within the Corporation. In April 2005, he was appointed as the deputy general manager responsible for technology at THY. During his tenure, he actively participated in the processes of establishing sub-companies according to THY's areas of expertise and the privatization of the majority of its shares by public offering.
In May 2006, when he was the head of THY Aircraft Maintenance and Repair Unit, he separated this unit from THY and restructured it as a company with a separate legal entity and became the first general manager of THY Teknik AŞ. While carrying out this duty, he not only created the Turkish Technic brand, but also made THY Teknik a worldwide aircraft maintenance and repair company serving companies other than THY. As a result of these efforts, THY Teknik was able to rank among the top 10 aircraft maintenance and repair companies (MRO) in a short time and eventually succeeded in being chosen as the best aircraft maintenance and repair company in Europe.
During his duty as THY Teknik's general manager and vice chairman until 2014; Aircraft engine maintenance and repair company named Turkish Engine Center with a capital of 150 million USD with the American company Pratt & Whitney Motor, the American company Goodrich AeroStructures and the Goodrich Turkish Technic Service Center (GTTSC) for the maintenance of the aircraft engine hood and reverse reaction units, Zorlu Enerji and the aircraft named TURKBINE engineers and gas turbines maintenance and repair company, TUSAŞ and aircraft cabin interior equipment manufacturing company (Turkish Cabin Interior TCI), Kibar Holding and aircraft seat manufacturing company (Turkish Seat Industries-TSI) served as.
During his tenure at Turkish Airlines Company, land from SSM with the ideal of establishing a world-class maintenance and repair center in order to provide added value to the area around Sabiha Gökçen Airport in the 80s, which the late Turgut Özal named the Advanced Technology Park (ITEP) area The HABOM project, which started with negotiations on allocation and leasing, was the first project to be successfully completed despite various handicaps, construction and ground problems. a more than $ 300 million in construction and established by an equipment cost more than $ 100 million 370 thousand square meters of indoor space with aviation maintenance and repair center, architecture, and in Turkey in terms of construction techniques and the first could be called in Europe the practice is where implemented.
In the same period, he made moves such as building a hangar at Ankara Esenboğa Airport and incorporating two huge new hangars at Atatürk Airport, which a private company had difficulty in operating, to THY Teknik. In addition, technician training programs enabled THY Teknik to take place in the world MRO market as a brand in terms of capability and capacity. THY Teknik, which started its operations as a unit of THY with an annual turnover of US $ 200 million, 10% third party customers and 2500 people, in 2005 when he started his duty; He left it as a company with a turnover of US $ 850 million, 28% third party customers and 5,000 people.
He was appointed to the Undersecretariat of Defense Industry in April 2014. Defense Industry Undersecretary provided as the completion of several defense projects in Turkey and the initiation of new projects. Iron; Under the leadership of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, it carries out its procurement and modernization processes with the slogan "For Our Independence and Our Future" with new restructuring in order to realize the ideal of an uncompromising, domestic and national defense industry.
The Undersecretariat for Defense Industries was attached to the President with the arrangement made in 2017, and in July 2018 it was restructured as the Presidency of the Republic of Turkey. Dr. İsmail Demir continues his duty as the head of Defense Industry.
Demir, who has published numerous articles on composite materials, crack mechanics, theoretical and numerical elastic modeling, micro electromechanics in various international journals and conferences, is married and has four children.
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