Fargo, North Dakota
July 1, 2008
 Mehmet
Tulbek is the new Technical Director at
Northern Crops Institute
(NCI), announces Brian Sorenson, NCI Director. Tulbek has served
as NCI’s pulse and oilseed specialist since January 2006. He
begins his new duties July 1, 2008.
Tulbek will provide leadership in technical services for
processors and end users of crops grown in Minnesota, Montana,
North and South Dakota. He will also assist in developing
educational short courses and provide technical assistance to
food processing companies to expand utilization of regional
crops.
“The Technical Director position is vital to the success of our
efforts in promoting our regional crops through educational
programming and technical services,” says Sorenson. “Mehmet will
be responsible for the technical aspects of our short courses
and will oversee our crop utilization efforts and pilot-scale
processing activities. He has made significant contributions to
regional agriculture, working to expand the use of pulse and
oilseed crops in the domestic and international food markets,
and will continue to provide leadership with those crops, as
well as the other crops produced in our four-state region.
Mehmet has earned a great reputation as an expert in northern
grown crops and I am eager to have him serve as our new
Technical Director.”
“I am very excited to be promoted as the NCI Technical
Director,” says Tulbek. “In addition to our current pulse and
oilseed market development programs, I am looking forward to
working with wheat, corn, oat, barley grains and developing new
short courses. NCI is such an important organization for the
global agricultural education that I am very glad to be part of
it.”
Tulbek's experience includes over ten years of research and
process development experience in pulse, oilseed and wheat
quality and processing. He has conducted research on
characterization of fermented chickpea in dough and bread
systems; evaluation of physical, chemical, microbiological and
sensory properties of roasted flaxseed; evaluation of roasted
North Dakota durum wheat quality; and evaluation of North Dakota
dry pea quality. He has also worked with the development and
characterization of pre-cooked dry pea flour, navy and pinto
bean snacks fortified with milled flaxseed; and the utilization
of commercial Turkish wheat flours in Asian noodle making.
Tulbek earned his Ph.D. degree in cereal science at North Dakota
State University. He has a B.S. degree in agricultural
engineering from the University of Ankara, Turkey, and an M.S.
degree in food engineering from the Istanbul Technical
University. He is a member of the American Association of Cereal
Chemists, American Oil Chemists' Society, and the Institute of
Food Technologists.
Northern Crops Institute supports regional agriculture and
value-added processing by conducting educational and technical
programs that expand and maintain domestic and international
markets for northern-grown crops. |
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