She completed her BSc and MSc degrees in Chemical Engineering in 1974 and 1976, respectively. She has been awarded by PhD in 1984. She has been working at Ege University Chemical Engineering Department since 1975 with different positions starting with Research Assistant to full time Professorship. Beside the teaching responsibilities she has also been in charge of many administrative positions such as Head of Department, Member of Executive Administrative Committee and since 2012 as the Dean of Engineering Faculty. At University level Professor Atalay is coordinating institutionally both international(ERASMUS) mobility programme. She has been responsible for the implementation of ECTS/DS studies at EGE University. At national level she has actively studied on implementation and dissemination of Bologna Process actions in Turkish Higher Institutions as the member of the Turkish National Team of Bologna Experts since 2014. She has a great experience on the accreditation on Engineering Programmes, she is one of the programme evaluator of engineering accreditation body in TURKEY, MÜDEK (Association for Evaluation and Accreditation of Engineering Programmes). She has been take part of the thematic network projects Teaching and Research in Engineering Education (TREE) and European and Global Engineering Education Academic Network (EUGENE) which supported by the European Comission.