Abdurrahman Hacioglu

Title
WW Adjunct Faculty
Email
Department
School of Engineering
College
College of Aviation
Daytona College of Engineering


Abdurrahman Hacioglu is an adjunct faculty member at the College of Aviation. He is a retired colonel from the Turkish Air Force (TurAF), where he held several key positions, including Head of the Aeronautical Engineering Department and Dean of the Faculty at the Turkish Air Force Academy (TurAFA), Director of the Aeronautics and Space Technologies Institute, and Commander of the Air and Space Power Development Center. He has also served as a professor in the Aeronautical Engineering Department at Istanbul Gelisim University. His research interests include aerodynamic design optimization using heuristic methods such as evolutionary algorithms. His teaching areas encompass fluid mechanics, aerodynamics, and computational methods, including finite element analysis.


  • Ph.D. - Doctor of Philosophy in Aeronautical Engineering, Istanbul Technical University
  • M.S. - Master of Science in Aeronautical Engineering, Middle East Technical University

  • AERO 309: Aerodynamic Perf of Flight Veh
  • ESCI 206: Fluid Mechanics