Burak Aksak

Burak Aksak joined Carnegie Mellon University’s Mechanical Engineering Department in Spring 2025 as a teaching professor. Aksak was an associate professor of Mechanical Engineering at Texas Tech University from 2012 to 2023, where he also served as an associate department chair between 2019 and 2022. Aksak joined Setex Technologies Inc., a CMU spin-off that he cofounded in 2009, as the Vice President in 2022. After the industrial business was acquired by Shin-Etsu Chemical Company in 2024, he joined Shin-Etsu MicroSi to assist with technology transfer. Aksak also cofounded a TTU spin-off, Flow Raider LLC, when he was a faculty member at TTU.

Aksak’s teaching interests include mechanics and design courses at both undergraduate and graduate levels. He is excited to incorporate biomimicry, advanced materials, and entrepreneurship-related topics in engineering courses. His research focus is bioinspired engineering, specifically studying and designing engineering systems in adhesives, actuators, and sensors inspired by biological systems.