Prof. Dr. İsmail Demir Delivers the First Lecture of the New Academic Year

October 17, 2022

GTU has recently held its opening ceremony for the 2022-2023 Academic Year. At the ceremony, where GTU Rector Prof. Dr. Hacı Ali Mantar made the opening speech, Prof. Dr. İsmail Demir, President of the Defense Industry Agency of the Republic of Türkiye, delivered a lecture on defense industry. The ceremony was attended by ASELSAN CEO and General Manager Prof. Dr. Haluk Görgün, government officials, academics, and students.

GTU Academic Awards were also delivered during the ceremony. The award categories and their winners are as follows: 

• Science Award

Prof. Dr. Erhan Demirbaş

•  Educators of the Year

Prof. Dr. Elif Özlem Aydın

Prof. Dr. Halit Yanıkkaya

• Research Incentive Awards

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Muhammed Ziya Paköz, Department of Architecture

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Farid Huseynov, Department of Management-Information Systems 

Asst. Prof. Dr. Çiğdem Balçık, Department of Environmental Engineering

• Doctoral Dissertation of the Year

Res. Asst. Dr. Hasan Tonbul, Department of Geomatics Engineering 

                     (Advisor: Prof. Dr. Taşkın Kavzoğlu)

Dr. İlhan Çam, Department of Management

(Advisor: Prof. Dr. Gökhan Özer)

Dr. Mehmet Aras, Department of Physics 

(Advisor: Prof. Dr. Çetin Kılıç)

• Master's Thesis of the Year

                     Aslıhan Aktepe, Department of Electronics Engineering

(Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hüseyin Arda Ülkü)

                 Selda Toklu, Department of Architecture

(Advisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Seher Güzelçoban)