Graduate students will be accepted for the 2017-2018 Spring Semester leading to the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in the following programs.

Detailed information on research areas including basic sciences can be obtained at http://fens.sabanciuniv.edu.

Academic inquiries should only be posted to contact names for each program given below; for administrative or procedure related questions please contact to Student Resources Office.
Phone: +90 (216) 483 9093, E-mail: studentinfo@sabanciuniv.edu

Molecular Biology, Genetics and Bioengineering
The program emphasizes the latest developments and technological innovations in this globally emerging field. Areas of specialization include molecular and cellular biology, bioinformatics, and plant biotechnology.

Academic Contact: Batu Erman,
Phone: +90 (216) 483 9530, 
E-mail: batu@sabanciuniv.edu 

Computer Science and Engineering
Research areas; natural language processing, pattern recognition, formal methods, software engineering, cryptography and information security, network security, computer architectures, distributed systems, database systems, data mining, computer graphics and virtual reality, embedded systems, knowledge representation and reasoning.

Academic Contact: Esra Erdem,
Phone: +90 (216) 483 9574,
E-mail: esraerdem@sabanciuniv.edu

Electronics Engineering 
Research areas; wireless communication, wireless networks, sensor networks, signal, speech and image processing, computer vision, pattern recognition, data networks, RF, microwaves, antennas and propagation, RF MEMS and RF Circuit design, photonics and fiber optic telecommunication, high-speed electronic devices, microsensors and microelectromechanical systems, medical and industrial ultrasonic imaging, medical instrumentation, analog and digital VLSI design, ASIC and FPGA design, computer-aided design and testing.

Academic Contact Özgür Erçetin,
Phone: (216) 483 9608,
E-mail: oercetin@sabanciuniv.edu

Energy Technologies and Management Master Program (With Thesis)

An interdisciplinary program with focus on the following research areas: renewable energy systems; energy systems modeling; vehicle electrification; green transportation; economic, environmental and policy implications in energy systems; technology design, analysis and optimization. 

Academic Contact: Tuğçe Yüksel
Phone: (216) 483 9987,
E-mail: tyuksel@sabanciuniv.edu

Industrial Engineering 
The program focuses on production and service systems, integrated manufacturing, supply chain management, logistics, joint inventory-pricing decisions, product development process, modeling and analysis of manufacturing processes and equipment, manufacturing and technology strategies, fuzzy systems, combinatorial optimization and operations research approaches to telecommunication and energy systems. Emphasis is given to close collaboration with the industry.

Academic Contact: Ş.İlker Birbil
Phone: (216) 483 9548,
E-mail:sibirbil@sabanciuniv.edu

Manufacturing Engineering

The Manufacturing Engineering program focuses on advanced manufacturing technologies. The research areas include manufacturing processes and equipment, computer-aided design and manufacturing, integrated manufacturing systems, additive manufacturing (3D printing), biomanufacturing, nano-micro manufacturing, composite and polymer manufacturing, and manufacturing and technology strategies with special emphasis on industrial applications.  

Academic Contact: Erhan Budak
Phone: (216) 483 9519,
E-mail: ebudak@sabanciuniv.edu

Materials Science and Engineering  
The program focuses on the interrelationships between structure, properties, and processing of materials for advanced technological applications.  Areas of ongoing research include semiconductors, synthetic and biological polymers, ceramics and composites at the nanometer scale, with particular emphasis on applications in nano-technology.

Academic Contact: Özge Akbulut,
Phone: +90 (216) 483 9968 ,
E-mail: ozgeakbulut@sabanciuniv.edu

Mechatronics Engineering  
Research areas;  smart product design, multi-disciplinary design optimization, topology design optimization, metamaterials, microsystems, intelligent control systems, robotics, machine vision, haptics, computer aided engineering, renewable energy systems, embedded systems, process control, hydro-turbines, advanced seals, turbine blade reverse engineering. Two-phase flow, Boiling heat transfer, MEMS, Boiling instabilities in microsystems, Convective heat transfer, Critical Heat Flux, Microchannels, Cavitation, Micro- and Nanofluidics, Micro pin-fins, Cross flow, Electronics cooling, Miniaturization of heat sinks. Vibration analysis and control of engineering systems, vibration modeling of continuous systems, experimental modal analysis methods, dynamics of micromachining, design and fabrication of miniature medical devices.

Academic Contact: Ali Koşar,
Telefon: +90 (216) 483 9621,
E-posta: kosara@sabanciuniv.edu

Mathematics  
The program emphasizes the interaction between pure mathematics and its applications, including those leading to interdisciplinary work. The main areas of concentration are number theory and algebra with applications in coding theory and cryptography, analysis and applications.

Academic Contact: Kağan Kurşungöz,
Phone: (216) 483 9964,
E-mail: kursungoz@sabanciuniv.edu

Physics
In condensed matter physics the main research areas are experimental and theoretical semiconductor physics, mesoscopic and nanoscopic physics, and superconductivity. In high energy astrophysics, X-, gamma ray and optical obervations of compact objects (neutron stars and black holes) and their environments are the main areas of interest. Other research fields are quantum information and high energy physics.

Academic Contact: Emrah Kalemci,
Phone: (216) 483 9614,
E-posta: ekalemci@sabanciuniv.edu

For Admisson :
Admission Requirements and the Necessary Documents for Graduate School of Engineering and Natural Sciences

Applicants must have completed their previous degree programs by January 23th, 2018.

Financial Support:
Financial support is available in the form of a monthly stipend and/or tuition waiver. Decisions on scholarship will be made by the Admissions Committee .

Deadline:
Applications must be submitted by Nov 17th, 2017. After initial screening, interviews will be scheduled for potential candidates during Nov 27th – Dec 08th,  2017. Applicants will be informed by e-mail. It is highly recommended to check e-mails for candidates.

 

The Graduate Admissions Calendar

Molecular Biology, Genetics and Bioengineering (MSc. / PhD.)
Interview**: will be announced soon


Computer Science and Engineering (MSc. / PhD.)
Written Exam*: will be announced soon

 Interview**    : will be announced soon

(GRE Subject Test: Starting from 2013-2014 Spring applications, the CS program will request a GRE Subject test score from all international applicants. For 2017-2018 Fall semester applicants, please be aware that a GRE Subject Test score would strengthen your application; so submit your score document, if you have already taken the test.)

Electronics Engineering (MSc. / PhD.)
Interview*: will be announced soon

Industrial Engineering  (MSc. / PhD.)
Interview**: will be announced soon

Manufacturing Engineering (MSc. / PhD.)

Interview**: will be announced soon

Materials Science and Engineering (MSc. / PhD.)
Interview**: will be announced soon

Mechatronics Engineering (MSc. / PhD.)
Interview**: will be announced soon

Mathematics (MSc. / PhD.)
Written Exam*: will be announced soon
Interview**     : will be announced soon

Physics (MSc. /PhD)
Written Exam* : will be announced soon
 Interview**     : will be announced soon

( The written exam covers the topics of the first & second year introductory physics, the third & fourth year classical mechanics, electromagnetic theory, statistical mechanics, and quantum mechanics. Applicants who provide GRE Physics subject test scores may be exempt from the written exam.)


*All candidates are required to attend the admission exam at the given date.

**Eligible candidates are going to be invited via e-mail for the interview.
 

Applications:

For the Applications to Graduate Programs of Engineering and Natural Sciences, please click here.

Please contact studentinfo@sabanciuniv.edu if you have any questions regarding your graduate application.

Application documents (official exam results, transcript, etc..) should be uploaded on the online system and application packages be submitted either in person or post by mail to the address below. Please note that print-out of the completed application form should also be added to the application package. The packages sent via mail must arrive at the department by the application deadline. Applications sent via e-mail are not accepted.

Warning! All the application documents become property of Sabancı University. It is suggested to keep the original reports of TOEFL, GRE scores, and apply with the copies of those test scores. But please note that the originals must be produced at the time of registration to Sabancı University.

The Sabancı University Center of Excellence in Data Analytics (CEDA) held the "Big Data Industry Conference" on October 30, 2017 at the Sabancı University Sakıp Sabancı Museum.

CEDA was founded in 2016 to collect big data-related research under one roof for an interdisciplinary approach, and enhance cooperation among them. verim will contribute to increasing knowledge about data analytics and big data through seminars and publications.

The seminal "Big Data Industry Conference” began with three short tutorials voted by the participants, and continued with a poster presentation of projects and research efforts at CEDA. After the poster session, speakers shared best practices and working models from R&D projects implemented in Turkey and the Turing Institute in UK through university-industry partnerships. The conference was attended by a large number of industry participants, who discussed their opinions of and expectations from CEDA in a question and answer session, and concluded with a tour of the Ai Weiwei exhibition in the Sabancı Museum.

Please click on the links for presentations, posters and photos from the event. 

New antibiotic combinations for tuberculosis treatment were discovered in a joint project between Sabancı University and Harvard University. The study also devised a novel method for finding drug combinations with more than two drugs.

Left to right: Ece Bıçak, Murat Çokol, Nurdan Kuru

A study for discovering new antibiotic combinations that was initiated in Sabancı University by Associate Professor Murat Çokol was completed in the Harvard University Laboratory of Systems Pharmacology. Also involved in the study are Sabancı University Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences Molecular Biology, Genetics and Bioengineering 2016 bachelor's graduate and Brandeis University Biotechnology Program master's student Ece Bıçak, and Industrial Engineering PhD candidate Nurdan Kuru. 

The method uses principles of analytical geometry and pharmacology to identify two-, three- and four-drug synergistic drug combinations to be used for tuberculosis treatment.

Although the antibiotics on their own have well-documented efficacy, this is the first time the antibiotic combinations are shown to have synergy.

The joint use of two or more drugs is common for the treatment of many diseases including tuberculosis, cancer and AIDS. This study allows researchers to assay the synergistic effects of multi-drug combinations (containing more than two drugs) at a very low cost, which will enable more widespread use of such drugs in medicine. As an example, testing for the synergy of a five-drug combination costs less than 0.1% of the cost of a conventional test. 

Murat Çokol said the following: "Using known antibiotics in a multi-synergistic combination is one of our best strengths against antibiotic resistance. But the number of possible combinations is astronomical; just 20 drugs have more than 15,000 combinations of five. The method we developed helps us find the most effective combinations among the plethora of possibilities." 

The project initiated by Murat Çokol at Sabancı University was published in Science Advances in October and was covered by the news sections of Harvard Medical School and Tufts University websites.

The Carbon Disclosure Project for presenting climate change-related strategies of companies to international corporate investors and stakeholders announced its 2017 ratings based on the world's most extensive corporate environmental data.

The two Turkish companies on the CDP Global A List, composed of oıutstanding achievers in the fight against climate change worldwide, were Arçelik and Garanti Bank as reported by the Sabancı University Corporate Governance Forum, the implementer of CDP in Turkey.

The thousands of companies worldwide who reported their environmental data through the CDP Climate Change, CDP Water and CDP Forests Programs were evaluated according to the CDP Ratings Methodology, one of the most reliable rating methodologies in the world developed by CDP. More than 3000 companies received ratings and 156 companies were nominated for the CDP Global A List.

Only 25 companies in the world, who have responded to the CDP Climate Change and CDP Water programs, were entitled to go on the CDP Global A List in both programs. One of these companies was Arçelik A.Ş. in Turkey.

One of the 73 companies worldwide that made it into the CDP Water Program Global A List was T.Garanti Bankası A.Ş.

These two companies will be presented their awards at the CDP Turkey Climate Conference and Awards Ceremony, where CDP Turkey, led by the the Sabancı University Corporate Governance Forum, will announce its 2017 results. The ceremony will be held at the Zorlu Performing Arts Center on November 28, and companies will receive their awards from TÜSİAD Chair Erol Bilecik.   

CDP Executive Chairman Paul Dickinson said the following about companies on the CDP Global A List: “I congratulate all companies that went on the 2017 Global A List. It is inspiring to see these companies take action for reducing the adverse effects of climate change, and seizing opportunities for transitioning to a sustainable economy. These companies take strong steps in climate change to accelerate the transformation." 

Sabancı University Corporate Governance Forum and CDP Turkey Director Melsa Ararat spoke: “Regardless of the expectations of laws and regulations, our companies with a global mindset in products and services or the financial markets have a remarkable performance when it comes to climate change and water management. Arçelik being one of the top 25 companies worldwide in both climate change and water management will help the company leave its competitors behind and become more valuable for investors and consumers alike. Likewise, Garanti Bank was among the top 73 companies in the world in water management, showing their meticulous approach to lending and their skill in managing long-term risks. This will make them more credible in the eyes of international creditors, and reinforce their position of being a reliable partner for implementing new economic models. I hope their success will set an example for other Turkish companies and motivate the government to implement the Paris accords."

The CEOs of the two Turkish companies on the CDP Global A List said the following about their achievement: 

Arçelik A.Ş. CEO Hakan Bulgurlu: “Companies have a great responsibility when it comes to fighting global warming. At Arçelik, we are aware of our responsibility and we maintain a holistic approach. We focus on circular economy solutions and strive to create more value with products that lead the industry in water and energy efficiency, and with projects on energy and water use as well as waste management. We are proud to see international organizations recognize our efforts. This is our third year in a row on the Global A List compiled by CDP, the most prestigious international platform for environmental risk assessment. We have also been included in the CDP Water Global A List for the first time. We are among the only 25 companies in the world that have achieved this feat, and the first and only Turkish company to ever do so. We will continue to work for a carbon-neutral future.”

T. Garanti Bankası A.Ş. CEO Fuat Erbil: “We have been responding to the CDP Program's call for transparency since 2011, when the program was launched in Turkey.  We have steadily increased the amount of data we report and are audited on every year. In 2015, we decided to support this call and not just respond to it, and we signed up for the main sponsorship of the CDP Water Program. We were also one of the 73 companies worldwide that made it on the CDP Water Program Global A List, and received a leadership award in Turkey for scoring A- in the CDP Climate Change Program. We are delighted to be consistently at the top of two separate programs that we support and advocate. We hope that we will be able to share this pride with many more companies in the future."

Other companies on the CDP 2017 A List, and the assessment results of all responding companies are available at:  https://www.cdp.net/en/scores-2017

CDP also published its second report in the “Tracking progress on corporate climate action” reports series. This year's report shows that companies all over the world are setting longer-term and more ambitious targets towards climate change, and that the shift to a low-carbon economy brings innovation and investments in new technologies. The report is available on the CDP website: https://www.cdp.net/en/research/global-reports/tracking-climate-progress-2017

The Turkish results of the CDP Climate Change and Water Programs will be announced in an event at the Zorlu Performing Arts Center on November 28. The CDP Global A and CDP Turkey leaders will receive their awards during the event. 

Sabancı Holding affiliate Kordsa, a global leader in reinforcement technologies with its pioneering innovation and technologies, and Sabancı University, listed as the most entrepreneurial and innovative university in Turkey by the Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology, have joined together in a new project.

Composite Technologies Center of Excellence, conjointly established by Kordsa and Sabancı University, is positioned as a technology hub that brings together R&D, innovation and production under one roof in composite technology.  The Directional Composites Through Manufacturing Innovation (DiCoMi) project, in which Composite Technologies Center of Excellence is involved, obtained 3 million Euro funding from the European Union.  

As a reflection of its vision to reinforce life, Kordsa has embarked on a venture with Sabancı University. Kordsa and Sabancı University will carry out the project within the Composite Technologies Center of Excellence which has been officially qualified as a R&D Center by the Ministry and is a pioneer in Turkey and an important example in the world with its university-industry collaborative business model. 

The Directional Composites Through Manufacturing Innovation (DiCoMi) project will be run by a joint consortium that includes Kordsa and Sabancı University is supported by the European Union. Within the scope of the project, which will strengthen Kordsa's global reinforcer position, system, software and material development will be carried out in order to produce composite materials with 3D printer technology. The DiCoMi project, which will last 2 years and will be given a contribution of 3 million euros, will enable domestic and foreign qualified human force to be exchanged within the EU member countries and in the associated non-EU countries. The DiCoMi project will be realized with the participation of 16 project partners from 11 countries under Horizon 2020 program. 

About Composite Technologies Center of Excellence

Established conjointly by Kordsa and Sabancı University, the Composite Technologies Center of Excellence is a pioneering model which combines industry and university under the same roof. The Center serves stakeholders throughout the different stages of the R&D cycle in composite technologies depending on the customer's requirements, starting with R&D, continuing with prototyping, and ending in mass production. Researchers, designers, engineers, managers and staff of the production process, PhD students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty members and entrepreneurs from incubators, i.e. all relevant players co-exist in this ecosystem. 

Directional Composites Through Manufacturing Innovation (DiCoMi) Project Participants

Loughborough University – UK

Universitatae Technica Cluj-Napoce – Romania

Universitat Politecnica de Valencia – Spain

Lunds Universitet – Sweden

Fachhochschule Aachen – Germany

National Aerospace University Kharkiv Aviation Institute – Ukraine

Sabancı Üniversitesi – Turkey

5AxisWorks LTD.– UK

Fibrex Co. SRL – Romania

SC Guhring SRL – Romania

Carboline – Ukraine

Kordsa – Turkey

Intelligentsia Consultants SARL - Luxemburg

Vaal University of Technology – South Africa

Central Metallurgical Research and Development Institute – Egypt

New Zealand Forest Research Institute LTD – New Zealand

Melisa Karakurt On Air 

RadyoSU hosts Melisa Karakurt on 13th of November who is now becoming a popular singer day by day. Not to miss this broadcast which will be all about music and art, tune in radyosu.sabanciuniv.edu at 8 pm on Monday.

Sabancı University Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences Computer Science and Engineering PhD Candidate Günet Eroğlu developed “Auto Train Brain”, a mobile application for dyslexic children having academic and learning difficulties.

Sabancı University Computer Science and Engineering PhD Candidate Günet Eroğlu developed a neurofeedback-based mobile phone application for dyslexic children. The application helps to reduce the effects of dyslexia, a subgroup of specific learning disorders for which a pharmaceutical treatment is not yet available, and to improve the academic achievement of such children.

Dyslexia is defined as a neurological difference in acquiring reading, spelling and writing skills by the European Dyslexia Association, and is seen in individuals with both average and above-average intellect. Thought to have affected geniuses such as Einstein, Mozart and Leonardo da Vinci, dyslexia is usually discovered in the first years of primary school as it affects reading skills.

Education is the only treatment

Dyslexia is seen in 10 to 15% of schoolchildren. According to research, 83% of children who have been diagnosed and have gone special education by the first, second or third grades can continue their academic life without issues.

Individuals who were dyslexic as children have relatively improved immunity in their adulthood and encounter fewer problems in school, but have an increased propensity towards Alzheimer's in later years. Therefore, lifelong and continuous learning is critical to improve cognitive capacity and preserve health.

 The application improves reading speed and reduces errors in dyslexic children

The “Auto Train Brain” mobile application supports learning in children with visual and auditory games and improves through feeding their brain signals back to them (neurofeedback). According to pre-tests on 100 healthy participants, reading performances increased and  fewer mistakes are done during reading. 

“Auto Train Brain” receives TÜBİTAK and DCP support 

HMS Health Mobile Software Sağlık Mobil Yazılım ve Eğitim A.Ş. (HMS A.Ş. https://healthmobilesoftware.com/) was founded by Günet Eroğlu, a woman entrepreneur, in partnership with the Sabancı University commercialization interface INOVENT A.Ş. and with funding support by the “TÜBİTAK 1512-BIGG” program, and also received investment from Diffusion Capital Partners (DCP) this month. HMS A.Ş. become one of the technology investments of DCP, Turkey's first technology transfer and risk capital fund management company. 

Günet Eroğlu devised this software based on her own experiences, and continues her efforts under the guidance of Sabancı University Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences professors Müjdat Çetin and Selim Balcısoy. The funds will be used for R&D efforts and further improvement of the application. 

Sabancı University has made a patent application for “Auto Train Brain”, and the mobile application will be available on Google Play Store on December 31, 2017, and on App Store on February 28, 2018. 

We are running for Tosun Terzioğlu Scholarship Fund on November 12th, at the İstanbul Marathon. If you wish to honor the outstanding dedication and love Tosun Hoca felt for our university, you can donate to the Sabancı University Scholarship Fund in his name to support the education of successful students in financial need.

HOW CAN I SUPPORT THE SABANCI UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND IN THE ISTANBUL MARATHON?

1)  You can run for the benefit of the SU Scholarship Fund, or join the Public Walk. Information for register: https://www.maraton.istanbul

You can send a call for action to your friends and family, inviting them to support you and donate to the SU Scholarship Fund. Click here for a sample.

2) You can give to the SU Scholarship Fund to support your friends in the Marathon or Walk. 

ONLINE GIVING

http://giving.sabanciuniv.edu/en/bagis

FOR WIRE TRANSFERS

Akbank Sabancı Üniversitesi Branch
Branch Code: 713
Account Number: 30727
IBAN: TR87 0004 6007 1388 8000 0307 27

(NOTE: Make sure you type  "Istanbul Marathon and name of runner" in the Açıklama/Comments section!)

 A free shuttle will depart from the campus on the morning of the marathon. 

Submitting your t-shirt size or signing up for the shuttle, contact  

Zeliha Yaşar Algül zyasar@sabanciuniv.edu. 0216 483 93 53

The project “Complex Analysis and CR Geometry”, implemented by Sabancı University Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences Member Nihat Gökhan Göğüş with Dr. Valentin D. Burcea from the Federal University of Espirito Santo as visiting scientist, received funding as part of the TÜBİTAK Program for Fellowships for Visiting Scientists and Scientists on Sabbatical Leave.

We commend our professor for his achievement and wish him further success in the future.

About the TÜBİTAK Fellowships for Visiting Scientists and Scientists on Sabbatical Leave (2221)

The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) grants fellowships for international scientists/researchers who would like to give workshops/conferences/lectures, or conduct R&D activities in Turkey in the fields of Natural Sciences, Engineering and Technological Sciences, Medical Sciences, Agricultural Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities. The program aims to promote Turkey’s scientific and technological collaboration with countries of the prospective fellows.

FENS introduces Lab Safety Video and Poster Design Competition for the purpose of the competitions is to raise the health & safety awareness and promote safety culture.

We want to see how you engage in safe behavior in laboratories.

Send us your video or poster and get the chance to be selected for the prizes. The winners will be announced on November 15th, Wednesday at the Lab Safety Event.

Video format:
Duration: up to 90 seconds
File format: 1920x1080 mp4

Poster format:
Size: A3 (21cmx42cm)
File format: JPG

Rules and Guidelines

• All submissions must address the basic safety rules found here.
• Open to all SU students (We encourage students of different faculties working together).
• Submissions can be made individually or as a team.
• The videos and posters will be judged by the jury based on relevance and creativity.
• Each participant or group may submit one entry.

Schedule:
Registration Opens: September 18th, 2017
Registration Closes: October 31st, 2017
Judging: November 11st, 2017
Awards Ceremony: November 15th, 2017

Application:
Please use the application form for participation.

Prizes:
For each category:
Winner: 1000TL
People’s choice: 300TL

Contact
For information and questions please contact Bilge Yerdelen (labsafety@sabanciuniv.edu).