Our Vice President of the Department of Civil Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering, Assist. Prof. Nazife Özge Fercan's project titled "Evaluation of the Effects of Liquid Wastes that May Occur from Healthcare Institution Debris after the Possible Istanbul Earthquake in Terms of Environmental Geotechnics and Debris Removal Plans and Risk Analysis", in which she will serve as a researcher, has been awarded project support within the scope of the TÜBİTAK 1001-UDAP National Earthquake Research Program Joint Call.

We congratulate our professor and wish her continued success.

Our Faculty of Engineering academician Prof. Dr. Nihal Sarıer (IKU) and Prof. Dr. Emel Önder Karaoğlu (ITU, Faculty of Textile Technologies and Design)'s second international patent titled "WEBS WITH COAXIAL NANOFIBER STRUCTURE, A TEXTILE PRODUCT CONTAINING THESE WEBS AND A PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF (KOAKSİYEL NANOLİF YAPILI AĞLAR, BU AĞLARI İÇEREN BİR TEKSTİL ÜRÜNÜ VE HAZIRLANMA YÖNTEMİ)” was registered by the UK Patent Office on 15.05.2024 with the number GB2597373.

The invention of Prof. Dr. Nihal Sarıer, one of the academicians of Istanbul Kültür University (IKU) Department of Civil Engineering, named "A textile product containing phase change material and method of obtaining it" was accepted and registered by the UK Patent Office.