We are glad to announce that our department has grown with two new members: Dr. Berat Alper Erol and Asst. Prof. Dr. Mete Akgün. Current research interests of Berat Alper Erol include manned-unmanned teaming, unmanned autonomous systems, intelligent robotics, machine learning, testing and evaluation (TRL5), human robot interactions, and the Internet of robotic things. Mete Akgün has studies on cryptographic protocols and RFID protocols.