| 1929 |
Sept. 2. Born in Baku, Azerbaijan as son of Dipl.Ing. Ismail and Helena (geb. Hoffmann) Seyitzade. |
| 1931 |
Turkish citizen, family name changed to Saryal |
| 1947 |
Graduation from Atatürk Gymnasium in Ankara. |
| 1947-1948 |
One year prep school in English. |
| 1948-1952 |
Graduation from Robert College Engineering School (Honor student) B.Sc.Mechanical Engineering. |
| 1952-1953 |
Graduation from Purdue Univ. Lafayette, Ind. USA MSc. Mechanical Engineering. |
| 1953-1956 |
Graduation from Technical University Berlin Charlottenburg,W.Germany, Dr.-Ing. Mechanical Engineering. Subject: "Unsteady State Temperature Distribution in Steam Turbine Rotors Using Electrical Analogy" Patented by AEG Comp., which financed the PhD research work. |
| 1956-1957 |
Military service as reserve officer at the General Staff, Technical Research and Development Center. |
| 1958-1962 |
Chief engineer at a private company, responsible for the construction of electrical and electronic utilities on 5 NATO Airbases. |
| 1962 |
Starting as an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department of the Middle East Technical University in Ankara. |
| 1963-1965 |
Chairman of the Mechanical Engineering Dep’t, METU*. |
| 1964-1969 |
Assistant to the President METU. |
| 1966 |
Associate Professor. Habilitation subject: "Determination of (Unsteady State) Thermal Stresses Through Electrical Analogy". |
| 1970-1972 |
A.v.Humboldt Fellow at the Munich Technical University, Visiting Professor, giving lectures and doing research. Lectures with the title "Elektrische Analogiemethoden für Wärmeübertragungs- und Wärme- spannungsprobleme" were published. |
| 1975 |
Professor in Mechanical Engineering at METU. |
| 1977-1979 |
President (Rector) of the University (Middle East Tech. Univ.) |
| 1979 |
Stuttgart University, giving lectures on Electrical Analogy (3 Month). |
| 1979-1980 |
Invited by the Munich Tech. Univ. to give lectures on Electrical Analogy.of Heat Transfer and Mechanical Systems. |
| 1980-1996 |
Professor at METU. |
| 1992 |
Verleihung: “Das Grosse Verdienstkreuz des Verdienstes der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.” |
| 1996 |
Emeritus Professor, giving lectures and doing research. |
| 1999-Now |
Doing research on "Electrical Simulation of Compressible Fluid Flow",developed a drift free, highly stable analog integrator, suitable for analog-digital hybrid computation of scientific phenomena. |