Assistant Professor Dr. Emin Taner Elmas is a Mechanical Engineer, B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D., and was born in Sivas in 1974. He completed his doctorate at Ege University, Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Mechanical Engineering Department, Thermodynamics Science Branch, and his master's degree at Dokuz Eylül University, Mechanical Engineering Department, Energy Science Branch. He also completed his undergraduate education at Hacettepe University, ZEF, Mechanical Engineering Department, graduated from the faculty with honors in 1995, and became a mechanical engineer. He was awarded a non-refundable scholarship by the Turkish Chamber of Mechanical Engineers in his 4^th year because he was the most successful student during his first three classes at the faculty. He graduated from İzmir Atatürk High School in 1991.

Dr. Elmas completed his military service as a NATO Officer in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was a Reserved Officer as a 2^nd Lieutenant as an English-Turkish Interpreter. He was also a Guard Commander and served in Sarajevo, Camp Butmir within the SFOR task force of NATO. He has been awarded with two NATO Medals and Turkish Armed Forces Service Certificate of Pride (Bosnia & Herzegovina).

In addition to his academic duties at universities, he has worked as an engineer and manager in various industrial institutions, organizations and companies. He has served as Construction Site Manager, Project Manager, Management Representative, Quality Manager, Production Manager, Energy Manager, CSO-CTO, CBDO, Factory Manager, Deputy General Manager and General Manager.

Dr. Elmas is a Department Head and is an Assistant Professor of Automotive Technology at the Department of Motor Vehicles and Transportation Technologies at Vocational School of Higher Education for Technical Sciences at Igdir University, Turkey. He is also an Assistant Professor of Bioengineering & BioSciences at the same university. He has nearly 30 total years of experience in academia and industry.  

He has served as a scientific referee and panelist for ASME, TUBITAK and many scientific institutions, organizations and universities, including NASA.

His academic and scientific fields of study are: Mechanical Engineering, Energy Transfer, Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics, Heat Transfer, Higher Mathematics, Evaporation, Heat Pipes, Space Sciences, Automotive, Bioengineering, Medical Engineering Applications, Neuroengineering, and Medical Technique. His industrial experience fields are: Heating-Ventilation Air Conditioning Applications, Pressure Vessels, Heat Exchangers, Energy Efficiency, Steam Boilers, Power Plants, Cogeneration, Water Purification, Water Treatment, Industrial Equipment and Machinery, Welding Manufacturing, Sheet Metal Forming, and Machining.

Dr. Emin Taner Elmas is also a musician, saz (baglama) player and ney (Nay, Turkish Reed Flute) performer. He has a YouTube music channel (Emin Taner ELMAS) which includes sound recordings of him playing the saz-baglama and blowing the ney. He composed the poem written by the great poet Âşık Veysel Şatiroğlu under the name of “Raşit Bey” in memory of his father, Judge (Hâkim) Raşit Elmas, titled it as “Raşit Bey Türküsü”, wrote it down, notated and published it as an academic article and broadcasted this song on his own music channel. He also wrote the poems “Canım Babam” and “Geldim Babam,” which he wrote also in memory of his father and published in an academic literature journal. He continues his artistic studies by writing various poetry, lyrics and also realizing musical composition works.