Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.Prof. Dr. Zafer lken is a Turkish educator, university administrator and the author/co-author of numerous scientific papers, who has been serving (since 2006) as the third rector of the zmir Institute of Technology, founded in 1992.Zafer lken received his degrees in mechanical engineering from Ankara''s Middle East Technical University (B.Sc., 1982) and zmir''s Dokuz Eylül University (M.Sc., 1987 and Ph.D., 1990).