Dr Orhan Gülcan earned his BS in Mechanical Engineering from Middle East Technical University, and his MS and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Gazi University. His research interests include additive manufacturing, non-traditional machining (especially electrical discharge machining), fiber metal laminates, bird strike, and aircraft structures. He worked as design engineer for Aselsan and Turkish Aerospace Industries, and now he is working at GE Aerospace as an additive manufacturing technologies researcher.