Congratulations to ADVANCE Graduate Irem Y. Tumer for her election as a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)! The Fellow grade is a high honor, and a testament to Tumer's prolific work in research, scholarship, and mentoring. Tumer is the associate dean for research and professor of mechanical engineering in the College of Engineering at Oregon State University, and was a member of the first OSU ADVANCE Seminar cohort. See the full article below as published in LIFE@OSU.

LIFE@OSU

THE LIVES AND STORIES OF OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY

Tumer Selected as ASME Fellow

Tumer joins a select group of about 3,500 Fellows out of an ASME membership totaling nearly 113,000 individuals. The Fellow grade is “truly a distinction among ASME members,” according to the organization. 

Tumer has been an active member of ASME for the past 25 years and has served the group in multiple roles, including conference chair, program chair, and journal associate editor. She has authored more than 50 journal articles and 125 referred conference articles. Since starting at Oregon State in 2006, she has graduated eight Ph.D. students and 16 master’s students, six of whom are currently in academic positions.

Tumer leads the Complex Engineered System Design group within the Design Engineering Labs and is an expert in system-level design and analysis of highly complex and integrated engineering systems with reduced risk of failures.

Before joining Oregon State, Tumer led the Complex Systems Design and Engineering group in the Intelligent Systems Division at the NASA Ames Research Center. During her nine-year tenure there, she also worked as a research scientist, group lead, and program manager.

At Oregon State, her research funding has come largely from NSF, AFOSR, DARPA, and NASA.