News from Department

As the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, we brought students together with 9 different workshops that both entertain and teach.

The UK-based university ranking organization, Times Higher Education (THE), has released its list of the best universities worldwide for 2025, in 11 specific subject areas.

The article titled "Sustainable additive manufacturing supply chains with a plithogenic stakeholder analysis: Waste reduction through digital transformation" has been published in the CIRP Journal of Manufacturing Science and Technology.

We are conducting scientific research projects in collaboration with Bakırdere Research Group and İstinye University.

A cooperation protocol was signed between İzel Kimya A.Ş., one of the leading companies contributing to sustainability, and Istinye University at Istinye University Vadi H Campus on Thursday, 9 January 2025.

The project of Dr. Esmaeil Doust Khah Heragh, one of the faculty members of the Department of Chemistry, has been awarded a grant from the Joint Funding Programme for Southeast Asia and Europe.

Assoc. Prof. Ahmet M. Elbir, a faculty member of the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Istinye University, has been elected as the chair of the Synthetic Aperture (SA) Technical Working Group under the prominent international organization, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

The first article of the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences for 2025 was published.

The Machine Learning in Healthcare panel was organized in three different sessions.

Plant species that are difficult or problematic to produce with traditional methods are developed using tissue culture methods in our Plant Tissue Culture R&D Laboratory with the work of Prof. Dr. Elif Aylin Özüdoğru, Head of Molecular Biology and Genetics Department, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences.

The ‘Journey of Experience in Technology’ event, organised by the Vice Dean of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Head of the Department of Industrial Engineering Assoc. Prof. Saliha Karadayı Usta, took place on Thursday, 26 December 2024 at the Vadi H Campus Conference Hall.

Within the scope of the ‘Artificial Intelligence Academic Thesis Program (ATP)’ carried out in cooperation with the Presidency of the Council of Higher Education and the Presidency of Defence Industries, the application of our Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences Software Engineering students Zeynep Övenç, Berre Nurten Yılmaz and Rabiye Karğın was accepted.

Prof. Dr. Derya Unutmaz, a world authority in the field of immunotherapy, visited Istinye University on Tuesday, 24 December 2024.

Within the scope of the Aviation, Space and Technology Festival TEKNOFEST 2024, organised by the Turkish Technology Team Foundation and the Ministry of Industry and Technology, our students from the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences representing Istinye University in the category of ‘Technology Competition for the Benefit of Humanity-Disaster Management’ came 2nd in Turkey.

Our Modeling, Simulation, and Extended Reality (ISU XR) Research Group at Istinye University continues to pioneer translational health sciences by combining clinical expertise with advanced computational tools.

Rhinoplasty Specialist Assoc. Prof. Dr. Süreyya Şeneldir, ENT Specialist Prof. Dr. Alper Yenigün and ENT Specialist Op. Dr. Irmak Uçak visited our XR and Robotic Laboratories and closely examined our projects.