Assoc. Prof. Buket METİN from the Department of Architecture has been assigned to give lectures at Politecnico di Bari (Italy) within the scope of "2020 Mobility for Higher Education Students and Staff" Erasmus Projects.
Esra Kağıtcı Dede, who recently completed her master's degree, shared her studies on four-dimensional printing and textile-based architectural components with us as part of the “ARCD 203 Alternative Construction Methods” course.
Res. Assist. Seda Nehir Gümüşlü from the Department of Architecture was assigned unanimously as guest speaker for the course of "Interior Design and Context" with the code of "INT 336" at the MEF University, Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Department of Interior Architecture, between 27.04.2022 and 20.05.2022 and 09:30-12:30 on every monday day in the city of Istanbul.
Assist. Prof. Dr. Özkan Fidan from the Department of Bioengineering at AGU, gave a speech entitled Antibiotic Resistance at the GLB 203 course, which he attended as a guest speaker.
Assist. Prof. Dr. Elif Bengü from the Faculty of Education of AGU, gave a speech entitled Well being at the GLB 203 course, which she attended as a guest speaker.
Assist. Prof. Dr. Aysun Cebeci Aydın from the department of Nanotechnology Engineering in AGU, gave a speech entitled Nutrition and Health at the GLB 203 lecture, which she attended as a guest speaker.
Damla Taşkın, Senior UNHRC Livelihoods and Economic Inclusion Officer, gave a speech about SDG 104 at the GLB 16 lecture she attended as a guest.
METU Institute of Marine Sciences (Mersin) Director Barış Salihoğlu spoke about SDG 14 in the GLB 104 course, which he attended as a guest.
On April 12, 2022, Mattihieu Peddergana shared his experiences and story on natural structures with us as part of the ARCD 203 "Alternative Construction Methods” elective course.
Abdullah Gül University, Faculty of Architecture, ARCD111 Architectural Photography course started to be conducted in Hunat Hatun Madrasah with the support of Kayseri Metropolitan Municipality.
Within the scope of this course, the basic information of geology and the geographical structure of the city will be covered, geological and geographical analysis of urban settlements by revealing the effects of analysis methods will be discussed.
Dr. Oktay Kaplan and Dr. Ozkan Fidan offered a GLB course focusing on SDG3. In this course, various health related topics such as rare diseases, rational drug use, antimicrobial resistance, anti-vaccinism, probiotics, stem cell therapy and biomaterials in medicine were introduced to our students in order for increasing their awareness on these topics and showing the relevance of them with SDG3.
Bekir Hakan Aksebzeci gave the GLOBAL 205.02 - "Sustainable Cities and Communities" course. The course is related to SDG 11. Within the scope of this course, there were 2 guest speakers in January:Ülkü Özeren talked about Sustainable Transport and her experience in sustainable cities concept. She has many years of experience in net-zero waste, net-zero carbon projects in the national and international areas. She graduated from Istanbul Technical University, Department of Environmental Engineering in 1997 and graduated from the Environmental Engineering Master's program in 1997. She has set up all requirements/ standards for all environmental, social, biodiversity, wildlife management for Istanbul New Airport Project starting from design to operation phases. She has set up international environmental and sustainability standards for all these activities of the Istanbul Airport Project. She has also worked in developing projects for net-zero waste and net-zero carbon targets for Istanbul Airport. In her previous duties, she also worked for many national and international institutions and companies; in the fields of environment and energy efficiency and environmental management.Assoc. Prof Pelin Alpökin shared her experience in sustainable transport. She graduated from Istanbul Technical University, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering in 1995, and graduated from the Transportation Engineering Master's program in 1998. She received his doctorate from Nagoya University in 2005. She has been working as a lecturer at Istanbul Technical University since 2008. She continues her academic studies on "Railway engineering and policies", "Transportation planning", "Finance models in infrastructure investments", "Infrastructure construction contract management", "International construction contracts" and has many international publications. As of 19 July 2019, she was appointed as the Head of the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Rail System Department. She is fluent in Japanese and English.
The courses offered during the Fall semester of 2021 in the Computer Engineering Department.
Within the scope of sustainability of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, FUEL CELL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING course will take place in the 2021-2022 spring semester.
Dr. Gökmen Kara and Dr. İsmet Söylemez designed and taught the course GLB 207 - Responsible Consumption and Production.Increasing consumption and changing consumer behaviors in parallel with ever-growing population mandates new solutions in industries and infrastructures. Innovation in this perspective has gained much importance and is one of the key indicators of economic sustainability of the countries. Developing sustainable innovation strategies, via industry-university collaborations, and implementing these strategies seem to be of crucial importance for a sustainable world economy. In this regard, the SDG set by the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the UN focuses on building resilient infrastructures, promoting sustainable industrialization and fostering innovation. This goal of this course is to introduce the students to different approaches employed in different industries to developing innovation strategies. In addition, the course aims at raising awareness about the importance of corporate innovation and the necessity of investment in corporate innovation for sustainable development. 7 projects carried out by the students in interdisciplinary teams throughout the course:FOREST BUILDING WATER PURIFICATION SYSTEM WITH SUPERCONDUCTORSSUSTAINABLE HOLIDAYA NEW TECHNIQUE FOR HYDROGEN PRODUCTION WITH THE HELP OF CARBON NANOTUBES AND APPLICATIONS TO DIFFERENT SECTORSSMART AGRICULTURAL POT FOR FARMERSELECTRICITY GENERATION FROM ORANGE PROJECT ANALYSISDRINK AND CHARGESOLAR BUILDINGS
Today, 2 billion people do not have access to safe drinking water, and 3.6 billion do not have access to safe sanitation facilities. Unsafe hygiene practices are common, increasing the effects on people's health. Microbial contamination is still regarded as the most serious risk factor in drinking water quality across the world. However, chemical pollution from both natural and manmade causes, such as arsenic, fluoride, pesticides, petrochemicals, and salt contamination, affects millions of people. This course focus on appropriate and sustainable technologies for water and sanitation. It also incorporates technical, socio-cultural, public health, and economic factors into the planning and design of water and sanitation systems.
Dr. Bilge Yalçındağ and Adar Cem Lağap have reviewed the final prototypes of students related to the SDG goals, as a part of Global 301: Sustainability Course.
In POLS 342 Theories of International Relations, we focused on Feminist International Relations theory and discussed how gender inequalities and patriarchal values shape the international politics, its negative effects on disadvantaged groups.
In POLS 441 International Security, we focused on the dynamics of International Arms Trade, which problematized the illicit arms trade and its effect on the conflicts, and Feminist Security Studies, which focused on how gender inequality causes security problems for disadvantaged and underrepresented individuals.
In January 2022, was given GLB 301 "Sustainability" course in Economics Department.The course had a team of several lecturers and addressed a variety of SDG goals.A group of students worked o the sustainable consumption of water, heating energy, electricity, transport and garbage.
