Turhan Erdoğan
# Turhan Erdoğan

Turhan Yaşar Erdoğan (1 January 1938, Tarsus – 4 January 2019, in Ankara) was a Turkish academic in civil engineering.

He graduated from Tarsus American Highschool in 1957. He completed his MS studies in the Civil Engineering Department of the Middle East Technical University (METU) in 1963, and PhD Thesis in the University of Berkeley and METU in 1970.

He continued in METU as an academic. He became assistant professor in 1971, associate professor in 1975 and professor in 1981. His field of study was construction materials. Although he retired in 2005, he continued as a part time professor in METU till his death. He was laid to rest in Karşıyaka Cemetery. Turhan Erdoğan was the father of two sons; Selim and Sinan.

## Books

He wrote a number of books both in Turkish and in English

* Beton (“Concrete”)
* Basic Materials of Construction
* Materials Science
* Materials of Construction
* Bağlayıcı Malzemelerin ve Batonun Onbin Yıllık Tarihi (“Ten thousand years-History of Concrete and Binding Materials”)
