The Creative Technologies Atelier, implemented by Sabancı University in cooperation with Ayvalık District Governorship, Ayvalık Municipality, and Ayvalık District Directorate of National Education, continues its remote (online) education programs organized for middle and high school students.

Sabancı University provided 224 computers to 23 schools in Ayvalık for science and technology education programs to be held as part of the Creative Technologies Atelier.

With the supplementary protocol signed with Ayvalık District Governorship, Ayvalık Municipality, and Ayvalık District Directorate of National Education on 20 November 2020, Sabancı University Creative Technologies Atelier added new programs to its series of programs with the purpose of raising individuals who are aware of the world's problems, have the desire and ability to find solutions to the problems, and who are capable of achieving sustainable development.  

Gökhan Görgülüarslan, Ayvalık District Governor, Özge Toygar, Ayvalık Deputy Mayor, Güner Bahadır, Ayvalık District Director of National Education, and Cenk Bayırlı, Sabancı University Business Development Director attended the protocol signing ceremony together with the principals of 23 schools that will benefit from the education programs. In his speech at the protocol signing ceremony, Gökhan Görgülüarslan, Ayvalık District Governor, said: "We want our children to get familiar with science and technology and be equipped with skills required by our time. This is the purpose of the Turkish Educational System. To this end, Sabancı University has been giving us very significant support since last year. They bring our teachers and students together through technology."

Science and Technology Education Programs by Faculty Members of Sabancı University

In Sabancı University Creative Technologies Atelier, which organizes science and technology-oriented education programs by observing the right of children to education and equality in order to benefit society, middle and high school students will learn the most basic information about the technologies of the future.

Students will learn from faculty members of Sabancı University in the year-long programs that will start on November 23rd. Middle and high school students will be given classes of Global Warming and Climate Change, one of the biggest problems of the 21st century, will receive training in Gene Editing and the CRISPR technology, Algorithms, and Social media by Sabancı University Foundations Development Directorate as well as a long-term English class by the School of Languages of Sabancı University. In addition to the programming language Python, 3-D printers, and 3-D modeling courses to be provided by Collaboration Space, the fabriation laboratory of Sabancı University, students will also participate in training on Social Sensitivity Projects. Students will also participate in Cybersecurity, Design-oriented Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, etc. courses planned in collaboration with the Heroes of Science Association and IBM and will be guided by voluntary scholarship students of Defne Muhtar Kent Education Foundation throughout the programs.

As a member of the SAHA aggregation, Sabancı University participated in SAHA Expo Virtual Fair, which can be visited between 9 November 2020 and 9 April 2021 free of charge, to showcase its existing applications and infrastructure in the defense and aerospace industries, to introduce its R&D activities to stakeholders in the eco-system, and to establish new partnerships. 

Aiming to form a bridge between the academia and the industry with the latest technologies and solutions that it offers and to establish partnerships with actors in the aerospace, defense, automotive, rail system, and maritime in particular, Sabancı University is at SAHA EXPO Virtual Fair with its Nanotechnology Research and Application Center (SUNUM) and Integrated Manufacturing Center (SU IMC).

At the virtual fair, participants visited the stands of Sabancı University’s centers and had the opportunity to learn about Sabancı University’s publications, patents, technologies in thematic fields, and research centers and to experience its research infrastructure through 3D videos. Recent developments in the field of robotic composite material production technologies and digital additive manufacturing technologies were showcased to visitors. Visitors learned about the online sales channel “SUNUM E-Store” which offers solutions based on customer demands in addition to standard products and the “Co-Sunum Platform” which exhibits the richness of nanotechnology ecosystem and offers infrastructure, competence, products, technologies, and services on an open source platform at national and international level. In addition, meetings were held with several domestic and international companies of the industry and ideas were exchanged on potential collaborations. 

About SUNUM

Founded with USD 35 Million by the contributions of the State Planning Organization and the Sabancı Foundation in 2010, Sabancı University Nanotechnology Research and Application Center (SUNUM) was awarded a 5-year qualification in 2017 as a “National Development Infrastructure” by the Research Infrastructures Board of the Ministry of Development within the scope of the Law No. 6550. Having adopted provision of internal and external services with open laboratories working 24/7 as its main approach, the fundamental capabilities of SUNUM as a National Research Infrastructure include research, service, collaboration, added value creation, and training. Its main research subjects include nanomaterials, life sciences, food-agriculture-water, energy, and defense industry.

https://sunum.sabanciuniv.edu/ 

About SU IMC 

Sabancı University Integrated Manufacturing Center (SU IMC) is an industrial-scale research and technology development center which aims to support all industries in relation to composite materials and manufacturing technologies and provides an environment for part design, fabrication, assembly, and prototyping processes with capabilities of basic and applied research, product development, graduate programs, and lifelong learning programs. It also serves as a center providing commercialization opportunities for integrated advanced manufacturing technologies. It is an industrial-scale research, technology development, and application center offering design, analysis, prototyping, manufacturing and process prototyping services in relation to composite materials, additive manufacturing, and robotic manufacturing with AS9100 certification and ISO 17025 test accreditation, which are the production standards in the field of aerospace.

https://suimc.sabanciuniv.edu/tr

Sabancı University Mechatronics Engineering Undergraduate Program students Ahmet Erkoç, Deniz Ece Susuz and Sema Burçe Pazarlı’s Vestel White Good Company’s Industry Focused Project (SOP) has been granted by TUBITAK 2209-B Grant for Industry Oriented Research Project Support Programme for Undergraduate Students. Students have conducting to their ENS 491 graduation project by under the supervision of the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences faculty members Prof. Dr. Ali Kosar and Dr. Abdolali.

From left to right: Abdolali Sadaghiani, Ahmet Erkoç, Ali Koşar,  Deniz Ece Susuz, Sema Burçe Pazarlı

The Project aims to develop an innovative, environmentally and user friendly product by using phase change material in Home Appliances.

A short summary of the recent activities of The Center of Excellence for Functional Surfaces and interfaces for Nano Diagnostics (EFSUN) in 2020 is now available.

Please click to read. 

The study titled "High stability graphene oxide aerogel supported ultrafine Fe3O4 particles with superior performance as a Li-ion battery anode" by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Alp Yürüm from Sabancı University Nanotechnology Research & Application Center and Sabanci University Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences Vice Dean Prof. Dr. Selmiye Alkan Gürsel, Buse Bulut Köpüklü, and Dr. Adnan Taşdemir from Sabanci University will be featured on the April 2021 cover of the Carbon journal.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Alp Yürüm says, "As you all know, with every new portable electronic device and electric vehicle released, we continuously need better performing batteries. The current Li-ion battery technology materials reach a limit. For that reason, we focused on a new generation material; magnetite nanoparticles. In the featured study, we developed Li-ion battery anodes consisting of magnetite and graphene. The magnetite nanoparticles developed in the study showed almost six times greater capacity than commercial anode materials."

Prof. Dr. Selmiye Alkan Gürsel adds, "Although magnetite has a good capacity, using it alone results in a failed battery after a few cycles. We synthesized the magnetite nanoparticles in a graphene aerogel. This very light and porous carbon structure surrounds the magnetite nanoparticles and conserves the capacity for hundreds of cycles."

The first author, Materials Science and Nanoengineering Ph.D. candidate, Buse Bulut Köpüklü says, "The Carbon journal is one of the most important periodicals in the materials science field. We are so proud to have published our research in this journal. The fact that our work was selected for the Journal's cover also made us delighted. We have been working on this project for more than a year. During battery operation, the fundamental problem of magnetite, a transition metal oxide, is its pulverization and subsequent detachment from the electrode. By incorporating these particles within the graphene-based aerogel, we have effectively restricted such material losses. The particles that become quite small during cycling remain at the electrode and therefore increase the electrode performance. The graphene also serves to improve the electrical conductivity of the material.". Buse Bulut Köpüklü is currently on a collaborative study at Münster University Battery Research Center to further develop new generation batteries in the scope of her Ph.D. studies. Our Materials Science and Nanoengineering graduate, Dr. Adnan Taşdemir, contributed to this research during his doctoral studies.

The first author, Ph. D. student, Buse Bulut Köpüklü says, "The Carbon journal is one of the field's most important publications. While only getting published in this journal is a big deal, being on the cover is incredible!”. She was working on this material for more than one year, and on the study, she adds, "During the battery operation, transition metal oxides like magnetite has pulverization problem. Graphene aerogel ensures stable attachment of the particles to the surface while also conducting the electricity". She is currently on a collaborative study at Münster University to further develop these new generation batteries. Dr. Adnan Taşdemir contributed to the synthesis of graphene used in the study.

The illustration used on the cover demonstrates the synergistic effect between the high-capacity magnetite and the graphene aerogel, which leads the hybrid material to outperform as an anode in Li-ion batteries. The magnetite particles' distribution inside the graphene sheets restricts the detachment of these particles from the electrode by pulverization. At the same time, graphene also enhances the electronic conductivity of the structure.

The Carbon journal is a multidisciplinary, high-impact (8.821) journal specializing in carbon materials published by Elsevier. This highly reputable journal is among the top 10% of the Scopus list. Typical examples of the carbon compounds published are carbon nanotubes, carbon nanofibers, graphitic structures, glass carbons, and graphene-based materials. In the journal, various applications of these materials can be seen. Among these applications, medicine, catalysis, electronics, environment, and energy storage/conversion are the most popular ones.

Publication doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2020.12.049
Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0008622320312264

Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences is pleased to announce that the Applications of Engineering in Medicine and Biology seminar series will continue in Spring 2020-2021 as well.

Presented by the leading scientists who are world-renowned experts in their fields, the Applications of Engineering in Medicine and Biology seminars will provide a recent overview on the most innovative and effective applications of basic science and engineering in research areas such as biomedical devices, microfabricated tools, conformal decoding, liquid biopsy, biopreservation technologies, conformable decoding and brain targeting systems. 

The Applications of Engineering in Medicine and Biology seminar series 2020-2021 Spring Program is as below: 

3 Mart 2021  - Erkin Şeker - Nanoporous Gold: From an Ancient Material to Biomedical Devices

17 Mart 2021 - Meltem Elitaş - Microfabricated Tools for Quantitative Biology

31 Mart 2021 - Canan Dağdeviren- What is Conformable Decoding?

14 Nisan 2021 - Arul Jayaraman - Microbial Tryptophan Metabolites and Gut Health

28 Nisan 2021 - Sunitha Nagrath - Enabling Technologies for Implementing Liquid Biopsy: CTCs to EVs

26 Mayıs 2021 - Rebecca Sandlin - Biopreservation Technologies for Global Health

9 Haziran 2021 - Nur Mustafaoğlu - Brain Targeting Systems 

Please visit this link to join The Applications of Engineering in Medicine and Biology seminar series. 

The “Applications of Engineering in Medicine and Biology” Seminar series 2020-2021 Fall term video recordings are accessible from the link.

Exploitation of academic research results through commercialisation  is crucial for economic growth and development. “ArTiS Workshop - Commercialization of Research Outputs: Theory and Practice” aims to facilitate the improvement of new skills and perspectives to develop new applications and markets for academic research results and inventions.  “ArTiS Workshop” which will be held between April 5 – June 21, 2021 is being organized by Sabancı University Nanotechnology Research and Application Center – SUNUM, in collaboration with Sabanci University Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences. If you are interested please fill in the application form until March 15,2021.

Individuals with entrepreneurship spirit who are undergraduate (3rd year), graduate students or post-doctoral researchers in any field of specialization are invited to apply. The workshop program will consist of online lectures by high-profile international experts  as well as discussion and mentoring sessions  amounting to a total of 4 hours of active participation and 6 hours of homework per week. Participation Certificates will be issued  to successful participants.  

For your questions, please send your email to artis.sunum@sabanciuniv.edu.  

In light of the "Enhanced X-Ray Timing and Polarimetry Satellite, Wide Area Monitoring Application Software” project signed by Sabancı University, the Turkish Space Agency and TÜBİTAK Space Technologies Research Institute, Sabancı University will take part in software development and scientific activities for the research satellite. These activities will be conducted by the staff of Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences that hosts the High Energy Astrophysics Detectors Laboratory, the first laboratory in Turkey to design and produce space-born astrophysical instruments. 

The protocol signed by the Turkish Space Agency, TÜBİTAK Space Technologies Research Institute, and Sabancı University, "Enhanced X-Ray Timing and Polarimetry Satellite Wide Area Monitoring Application Software" is one of the four important projects that will contribute to realizing Turkey's National Space Program and reaching the stated goals.

With the signing of this protocol, Sabancı University, with its expert staff in high-energy astrophysics instrumentation, data analysis, and embedded software will contribute significantly to the design and production of the eXTP satellite, and lead subsequent scientific activities before and after the launch.

The satellite body has a diameter of 4.7 m, a length of 11.5 meters and a weight of 4.5 tons

What is the EXTP Project?

The EXTP project is an X-Ray Satellite project that can not only detect celestial objects (black holes, neutron stars, gamma ray bursts) that make the most interesting and intense flashes in the universe, but can also investigate the structure of these objects spectrally, temporally and polarimetrically with giant observation instruments. 

In the international project, the satellite platform will be produced by China and two of the four useful load will be carried out by China and two by European countries (European Space Energy-ESA). Phase A of this project is now complete and Phase B has started. Turkey will be involved in the project starting from Phase B. The Wide Field Monitor (WFM) is one of the four main observation instruments on the EXTP satellite which is still in the process of being designed and manufactured.  The long-term goal of the work to be carried out in Turkey is to write the application code for this WFM and, in the process, ensure that Turkish scientists and engineers have an active scientific and technical role in the EXTP satellite.    

Sabancı University will contribute to the project with its software writing expertise 

Sabancı University and the Tübitak Space Institute are carrying out the project together by utilizing Sabancı University’s expertise in the technical and scientific aspects of the WFM sensor and the significant experience in satellite software and project management of Tübitak Space Institute.

Left: The structure of the WFM instrument.

Right: The WFM’s field of view of the universe is indicated in red

The field of view of previously transmitted satellites has been shown for comparison. From a scientific perspective, this project will familiarize all scientists working in the field of high-energy astronomy with the capabilities of the EXTP satellite and pave the way for them to utilize the satellite in their own research areas. This preliminary preparation will place Turkish scientists in the best position in terms of the scientific data input and broadcast input of the satellite, once it becomes operational. 

The director of the project for Sabancı University, Prof. Dr. Emrah Kalemci, is developing smaller versions of the semiconductors on the eXTP at HEALAB, the laboratory which he founded. Dr. Kalem, who is responsible for coordinating the Turkish Team and the other country teams connected to ESA, is an expert in WFM-like coded mask systems and x-ray data analysis. University faculty members Associate Professor Dr. Ayhan Bozkurt and Associate Professor Dr. Ahmet Onat will support the project as the system engineers responsible for producing secure software. Prof. Dr. Ersin Göğüş, a Sabancı University faculty member and member of the EXTP Science Team, will take on the scientific side of the project in Turkey. He will be responsible for organizing workshops and similar events to inform Turkish scientists about the scientific capacity of the satellite.  These events will be held in Turkey and will be organized in coordination with the Turkish Space Agency.

Sabancı University, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, is organizing a joint workshop with University of Tehran, which is one of the leading universities in Iran, on February 17, 2021. 

The themes of the workshop will be Microelectronics/Nanoelectronics and AI/Data Analytics/Data Science. Please click to reach the workshop program. 

All interested parties are invited to join the workshop using this link. 

Sabancı University Graduate School of Social Sciences Economics Graduate Programs 2021-2022 Fall Semester Early Applications

EARLY APPLICATION DEADLINE: April 2, 2021

Sabancı University Graduate School of Social Sciences is accepting early applications to Economics (MA/PhD) program for the Fall semester of 2021–2022 academic year.

How can I apply?

Candidates must submit an online application at the website below.

http://admission.sabanciuniv.edu

What are the rules and required documents for application?

Please click here for the rules and required documents for master programs application.

Please click here for the rules and required documents for doctorate programs application.

What are the scholarship opportunities?

Candidates may be given various kinds of scholarships based on merit. Please click here to view the scholarship opportunities for graduate programs at Sabancı University.

Application dates

• The early application deadline for Economics MA and PhD program is April 2, 2021.

What happens after I complete my application?

• Candidates shortlisted by the admissions jury of their respective program may be called in for the interview. Candidates will be notified of their interview times by email or telephone. Based on the conditions, interviews can be in-person or online.

How can I get more information?

You may contact the following faculty member for academic issues and questions. You may contact Sabancı University Student Resources for more information regarding application and admission procedures.

• Student Resources
  • Telephone: (216) 483 93 61
  • Email: studentinfo@sabanciuniv.edu
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• Economics (MA/PhD)
  • Asst. Prof. Remzi Kaygusuz, (216) 483 92 44, remzi.kaygusuz@sabanciuniv.edu