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Adem C¸ ic¸ek is presently an assistant professor of Mechanical Design Department at the University of Duzce in Turkey. He received his BSc and MSc in Mechanical Education Department from the Univer-sity of Gazi, in 1997 and 2001, respectively. He completed his PhD degree from the University of Gazi, in 2005. From 1998 to 2005, he was employed as a technical teacher at various technical and voca-tional education establishments. His current research interests include CAD/CAM, Expert Systems, CNC part programming, programming languages and fea-ture technology.