Turan Sahinkaya is a Senior Manager of Pricing in the Global Complex Pricing Group at AT&T. Sahinkaya has been recognized as a strong leader throughout his tenure with AT&T, continually proving his technical and management expertise. With an undisputed business-savvy style, Turan Sahinkaya earned the highly prestigious company-wide AT&T Global Award of Distinction for a sales tool innovation that resulted in a cost savings of $1,000,000 to the company. Prior to his time with AT&T, Turan Sahinkaya worked as a Staff Consultant for some of the world’s most recognized industry leaders, as well as Fortune 100 companies such as Accenture and Oracle Corporation. Turan Sahinkaya has a deep passion for life that extends outside of the world of business to his family, soccer, rugby, coaching, entrepreneurship opportunities, and volunteer work. Turan Sahinkaya played professional soccer in Europe at the age of 16 for Juventus Football Club for 5 years and Fenerbache Sport Club for 4 years. Mr. Sahinkaya comes from a large family of professional soccer players from top European clubs and National teams throughout England, Italy, Russia, Turkey, and Germany. As a youth growing up in Europe, Turan Sahinkaya spent his early childhood playing soccer for the prestigious Juventus Youth Football Club in Turin, Italy. Sahinkaya’s parents named him after this great city in Italy.
Turan Sahinkaya has worked with his father, Dr. Yilmaz Sahinkaya, on gaining a U.S. patent acceptance for the Optimal Control System for an Electric Motor Driven Vehicle. This idea is currently being widely discussed among the Top Five vehicle producing manufacturers in the world.
Turan Sahinkaya explains, “Operating conditions experienced by a battery-operated vehicle driven by one or more permanent magnet or separately excited DC motors are sensed and converted into a control signal.
“The control signal is applied to a pulse width modulator which controls the conduction periods of SCR's in such a way that the average motor armature voltage is proportional to the control signal,” adds Turan Sahinkaya.
“In a motoring mode the pulse width modulator operates SCR's to supply current from the battery to the motor armature circuit. This mode usually occurs when the vehicle is moving uphill or accelerating on a level terrain,” states Turan Sahinkaya.
“In a generating mode the pulse width modulator operates SCR's to supply current from the motor armature circuit to the battery. This occurs when the vehicle is moving downhill or is decelerating on a level terrain. The required mode of operation is accomplished automatically by the action of a motor armature current direction sensing circuit,” concludes Turan Sahinkaya.
Turan Sahinkaya’s father, Dr. Yilmaz Sahinkaya, earned a Masters in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and is a huge NCAA football supporter of the Michigan Wolverines. Dr. Sahinkaya also earned his Doctorate degree from the world-renowned Caltech University in Pasadena, California. He recently partnered with Santa Clara University’s Department of Mechanical Engineering in California during its Winter Seminar Series to speak on “Intelligent Energy Management System Design.”
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