Sencer Yeralan, P.E., PhD

Sencer Yeralan, P.E., PhD, is a researcher, mentor, academician, businessperson, design engineer, and media person. Spanning a four-decade academic career, he has taught classes in electrical, industrial, mechanical, computer engineering as well as in mathematics, law, and social sciences. He served as dean of engineering, business, IT, and natural sciences on three continents. He is experienced in strategic planning, accreditation, program and curricula development, and digital technologies.

With a passion for all types of systems, Dr. Yeralan has worked on industrial robotics and vision systems, computer-aided manufacturing, designed hardware for automotive, medical, and defense systems, and has written compilers and special-purpose operating systems for deeply embedded systems.

His interest in soft systems continued as he developed some of the earliest courses in deep embedded control, philosophy of engineering, and sustainable systems engineering and management. A Fulbright Scholar, and a long time expert reviewer for the European Research Council, he has a diverse research record from stochastic processes, to seafood inspection, from metrology to academic administration. This diversity is reflected in his latest books: An Introduction to Industrial Engineering through Computation (2016), Humor in Pedagogy in Tertiary Education in the Age of COVID-19:
Bosnia in Comparative Perspective (2022), and Operational Amplifiers Through Experimentation and Reflection (2023). He serves as an associate editor of several periodicals in engineering, medicine, and law.

He is interested in number theory, philosophy of science, cosmology, and cultural anthropology. On two different occasions, he produced and hosted weekly radio programs
on popular science. He is an avid volunteer, having given benefit concerts, played music in coffee shops, and acted in single-actor short films.