Prof. Dr. İlyas Yılmazer is a geotechnical engineer with over half a hundred years of work experience. The first 6 year-period has been spent as an agricultural technician and officer employed by the government. He has over 45 years of professional experience in teaching and in agriculture, geology, hydrogeology, geotechnics, mining, and geo-environmental investigations and design works. He is founder of the YILMAZER Education and Engineering Ltd. He has worked as a general secretary of the International Symposium on Geology and Environment in 1992-1997. His editorial duty continued till 2000. Dr. Yılmazer has published hundreds of scientific articles and made oral presentations. He is the head of the team that has realized many award-winning designs on a national and international scale, especially including highway and earthquake-flood-landslide disaster prevention. Dr. Yilmazer and his team have designed and implemented numerous projects in/abroad to turn natural events into wealth, not disasters.