Gebze Technical University

Gebze Technical University
Gebze Teknik Üniversitesi
Type Public
Established July 11, 1992
Academic staff
 388
Undergraduates 926
Postgraduates 1,275
Location Gebze, Turkey
Website www.gtu.edu.tr

Gebze Technical University (Turkish: Gebze Teknik Üniversitesi (GTÜ)) and old name: Gebze Institute of Technology (GIT) is one of two institutes of technology founded in Turkey. (The other one is İzmir Institute of Technology.) It is a university for undergraduate and graduate studies and research activities located in a specifically selected area in Gebze, one of the most industrialized regions of the Marmara Region.

Research

Although it is a fairly new undergraduate institution, GIT has held the fifth place among all universities in Turkey, and the first place among the state universities for number of publications per person by having increased the number of scientific publications in international publications to 153 by 2008.[1]

Establishment

GIT was founded in 1992 with the aim of becoming an academic institution of learning whose priority is educating innovative and broad-minded researchers, thus establishing itself among the international science and technology producers and helping the Turkish industry gain a strong position in the competitive global arena.[1]

Education

The institute, which has been giving education at graduate level in its four faculties since 1994, began to offer undergraduate education in the departments of Physics, Mathematics, Materials Science, Computer Engineering and Electronics Engineering in 2001 and Architecture and Business in 2008. All education programs are supported with English (30%). GIT has 926 undergraduate and 1275 graduate students and employs a total of 388 academic personnel, 158 of whom held doctoral degrees.[1]

Faculties and departments

Campuses

The institute consists of two campuses, Çayırova Campus and Muallimköy Campus, which is still under construction. Both of them are easily accessible by the E-5 and TEM highways between Kocaeli and Istanbul, and are close to Sabiha Gökçen Airport.

Çayırova Campus

Being the first and the main campus of Gebze Institute of Technology, Çayırova Campus is located on the Istanbul-Ankara highway, 10 kilometers away from Gebze city center toward İstanbul. The campus is settled in a wooded green savanna of 245,000 square meters. The rector’s office, administrative bodies, library, and classrooms for the entire undergraduate and a number of graduate studies are located in Çayırova Campus.[2]

Muallimköy Campus

Muallimköy Campus, with its 3,800,000 m² area, is still under construction but Environmental Engineering, Geodetic and Photogrammetric Engineering, Biology and Chemistry departments have been continuing their research there since 2002. It is planned to contain most of the departments and a 500-person capacity dormitory facility. The İstanbul-Ankara TEM highway passes very near the campus.

Facilities

Library

GIT Library, as well as possessing more than 10,000 books and 222 periodicals, provides direct access to 9,705 electronic journals on eight databases.

Laboratories

GIT has 79 research and/or teaching laboratories equipped with state-of-the-art hardware. Every major department has its own computer network and laboratory for its students. In addition, public computer laboratories are available workdays and weekends.[2]

Students life

The societies active at GIT are:

  • 1907 UNIFEB GYTE
  • Dance Club
  • Nature Sports and Climbing
  • UltrAslan GYTE
  • UNIBJK GYTE

References

  1. 1 2 3 Gebze Institute of Technology (December 2009). "General Info About GIT".
  2. 1 2 Gebze Institute of Technology (December 2009). "GIT Erasmus".

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