Middle East Technical University (commonly referred to as METU; in
Turkish
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*a Turkic language spoken by the Turks
* of or about Turkey
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*** Turkish alphabet
** Turkish people, a Turkic ethnic group and nation
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, ''Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi'', ODTÜ) is a
public technical university located in
Ankara,
Turkey. The university emphasizes research and education in
engineering and
natural sciences, offering about 41 undergraduate programs within 5 faculties, 105 masters and 70 doctorate programs within 5 graduate schools.
The main campus of METU spans an area of , comprising, in addition to academic and auxiliary facilities, a forest area of , and the natural
Lake Eymir
Lake Eymir is a small lake in Ankara Province, Turkey. According to notes of ''Seyyah Kandemir'' published by the governorate of Ankara in 1932, the lake was named after a Turkmen tribe named ''Eymür''.
Geography
The lake is about south of ...
. METU has more than 120,000 alumni worldwide.
The official language of instruction at METU is
English.
Over one third of the 1,000 highest scoring students in the
national university entrance examination choose to enroll in METU; and most of its departments accept the top 0.1% of the nearly 3 million applicants.
METU had the greatest share in national research funding by the
Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÃœBÄ°TAK) in the last five years, and it is the leading university in Turkey in terms of the number of
European Union Framework Programme
The Framework Programmes for Research and Technological Development, also called Framework Programmes or abbreviated FP1 to FP9, are funding programmes created by the European Union/European Commission to support and foster research in the Europea ...
(FP) projects participation.
Over 40% of METU's undergraduate alumni choose to pursue graduate studies.
History
Middle East Technical University was founded under the name "''Orta Doğu Teknoloji Enstitüsü''" (''Middle East Institute of Technology'') on November 15, 1956, to contribute to the development of Turkey and the surrounding countries of the
Middle East,
Balkans, and
Caucasus, by creating a skilled workforce in the natural and social sciences. "Arrangements and Procedures as for the Foundation of METU, Law No 6213" was enacted on January 22, 1957, whereby the current name "''Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi''" (ODTÜ) was adopted. Finally, the "Foundation Act No 7907", setting forth the particular standing of METU and establishing it as a juridical entity, was enacted on May 27, 1959.
In the early years immediately following its foundation, METU was temporarily hosted in a small building that previously belonged to the Social Security Office of Retirees in
Kızılay and another building near the
Grand National Assembly of Turkey. In 1963, the university moved to its current location west of Ankara city center, creating the first university campus of Turkey. In 1956, the Department of Architecture initiated the first academic program at METU, followed by the Department of Mechanical Engineering in the spring of 1957. At the start of the 1957–1958 academic year, the Faculty of Architecture, the Faculty of Engineering, and the Faculty of Administrative Sciences were established. In 1959, the establishment of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences was completed. The Faculty of Education launched its academic program in 1982.
Organisation
Faculties and departments
METU has 42 academic departments, most of which are organised into 5 faculties.
These are responsible for the undergraduate programs.
*Faculty of Architecture: ''Architecture'', ''City and Regional Planning'', ''Industrial Design''
*Faculty of Arts and Sciences: ''Biology'', ''Chemistry'', ''History'', ''Mathematics'', ''Molecular Biology and Genetics'', ''Philosophy'', ''Physics'', ''Psychology'', ''Sociology'', ''Statistics''
*Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences: ''Business Administration'', ''Economics'', ''International Relations'', ''Political Science and Public Administration''
*Faculty of Education: ''Computer Education and Instructional Technology'', ''Educational Sciences'', ''Elementary Education'', ''Foreign Language Education'', ''Physical Education and Sports'', ''Secondary Science and Mathematics Education''
*Faculty of Engineering: ''Aerospace Engineering'', ''Chemical Engineering'', ''Civil Engineering'', ''Computer Engineering'', ''Electrical and Electronics Engineering'', ''Engineering Sciences'', ''Environmental Engineering'', ''Food Engineering'', ''Geological Engineering'', ''Industrial Engineering'', ''Mechanical Engineering'', ''Metallurgical and Materials Engineering'', ''Mining Engineering'', ''Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering''
In addition to these, there are the ''Department of Basic English'' and the ''Department of Modern Languages'' in the School of Foreign Languages; the Technical Vocational School of Higher Education; and, bound directly to the President's Office, the ''Department of Turkish Language'' and the ''Department of Music and Fine Arts''.
Graduate schools
The 5 graduate schools present in METU are responsible for the graduate programs.
*''Graduate School of Applied Mathematics''
*''Graduate School o
Informatics'
*''Graduate School o
Marine Sciences' (
Institute of Marine Sciences
The Institute of Marine Sciences (IMS) is a Turkish facility that focuses on marine science-related education and research. IMS was founded in 1975 on the Erdemli Campus at METU (Middle East Technical University) in Erdemli / Mersin. Institute's c ...
– IMS)
*''Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences''
*''Graduate School of Social Sciences''
Academics
As of 2020, METU has approximately 27,000 students, of which 19,700 are enrolled in undergraduate programs, 4,700 in masters, and 3,000 in doctorate programs.
A further 1,500 students are attending programs in the new Northern Cyprus Campus. Over 40% of METU's students go on to graduate school. Each academic year, METU hosts over 1,700 regular international students from 94 different countries; and through 168
Erasmus Programme agreements and 182 bilateral exchange and cooperation agreements with universities abroad (e.g. in Central Asia, Middle East, North America, Australia, Far East and Pacific Region), it sends 350 students and receives 300 students and 50 researchers annually.
As of 2010, the university employs 2,500 faculty (professors and associate professors), 500 academic instructors, and over 2,000 research assistants. The number of the alumni exceeds 500,000 (about 350,000 having completed undergraduate programs).
METU has about 40 undergraduate programs within the faculties of Engineering, Architecture, Arts and Sciences, Economic and Administrative Sciences, and Education, and there are 97 masters and 62 doctorate programs available in the graduate schools of Natural and Applied Sciences, Social Sciences, Informatics, Applied Mathematics, and Marine Sciences.
METU commonly ranks close to the top among research universities in Turkey,
with over one third of the 1,000 highest scoring students in the national university entrance examination choosing to enroll; and most of its departments accepting the top 0.1% of the nearly 1.5 million applicants.
In the
Webometrics Ranking of World Universities published in July 2009, aiming to measure through web-based publications the institution size, research output, and impact,
METU ranked as the world's 435th (1st place within Turkey) among 15,000 universities, being the only university from Turkey to get included among the top 500.
Recently, the
Times Higher Education World University Rankings published in September 2016 placed METU at the 501–600th position worldwide based on indicators of teaching, research, influence, innovation, and international character,
making it one of the six universities from Turkey listed among the top 600 (the other being
Bilkent University
Bilkent University ( tr, Bilkent Üniversitesi) is a private university located in Ankara, Turkey. It was founded by Prof. İhsan Doğramacı in 1984, with the aim of creating a center of excellence in higher education and research. It is constan ...
at number 351–400).
The
QS World University Rankings 2010 by
Quacquarelli Symonds ranked METU as 185th worldwide in the field of engineering and technology,
and as 333rd in the field of natural sciences.
The language of instruction at METU is
English.
All enrolled students are required to have a degree of proficiency in English for academic purposes, and this is assured by a proficiency examination before the commence of studies. Students with unsatisfactory knowledge of English follow a preparatory English education for one year, given by the METU School of Foreign Languages. Two exceptions instructed in Turkish are the Turkish language and the history of Turkish revolution courses mandated by the
Council of Higher Education.
International perspective
Researchers from METU actively take part in many
COST,
EUREKA,
NASA,
NATO,
NSF
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Political organizations
*National Socialist Front, a Swedish National Socialist party
*NS-Frauenschaft, the women's wing of the former German Nazi party
*National Students Federation, a leftist Pakistani students' political gr ...
,
UN,
World Bank,
Jean Monnet
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,
Erasmus Mundus
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,
Leonardo
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Leonard or ''Leo'' is a common English masculine given name and a surname.
The given name and surname originate ...
and
SOCRATES projects.
METU has been involved in 56
European Union 6th Framework Programme (FP6) projects, including the coordination of 12 FP6 and 3 Networks of Excellence projects.
Within the
7th Framework Programme
The Framework Programmes for Research and Technological Development, also called Framework Programmes or abbreviated FP1 to FP9, are funding programmes created by the European Union/European Commission to support and foster research in the Europea ...
(FP7), 33 research projects involve participation of METU, since 2007.
As of 2020, METU has 22 international
joint degree programmes with European and American universities at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
METU is a member of various associations and networks dealing with international education and exchange, including
EUA,
EAIE,
IIE
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,
GE3,
SEFI, and
CIEE.
The university also actively participates in
AIESEC and
IAESTE summer internship programs. English as the language of instruction in all its degree programs has greatly facilitated METU's international involvements and accommodation of international students and researchers.
METU continually goes through external assessment, accreditation, and certification by international organizations. In 1991, METU initiated a long-term program to have its engineering programs evaluated by the
Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology
The ABET (incorporated as the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc.) is a non-governmental organization that accredits post-secondary education programs in applied and natural sciences, computing, engineering and engineering ...
(ABET), the recognized U.S. accreditor of college and university programs in applied science, computing, engineering, and technology. This process was concluded with the Faculty of Engineering having all its thirteen undergraduate programs declared as "substantially equivalent" to the ABET accredited programs in the USA.
The university has completed the evaluation process of Institutional Evaluation Programme (IEP) of the
European University Association
The European University Association (EUA) represents more than 800 institutions of higher education in 48 countries, providing them with a forum for cooperation and exchange of information on higher education and research policies. Members of th ...
(EUA) in 2002.
Because of METU's effort to maintain international standards, the Faculty of Engineering was awarded in 1977 the "Silver Badge of Honor" by the
UNESCO International Center for Engineering Education and the "Meritorious Achievement Award in Accreditation Activities" by the
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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(IEEE). METU was awarded the international
Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 1995 for its forestation program.
Being the pioneer institution of the country to connect to the Internet backbone in the early 1990s, METU also manages Turkey's
Country Code Top-level Domain (ccTLD) (the ".tr" domain).
METU library
The METU main library has one of the largest collections in
Turkey,
containing over 500,000 books
classified according to the
Library of Congress Classification (LCC) scheme.
The library subscribes to 1,500 print journals (170,270 volumes) and it provides access to 76,671 electronic journals, 587,493 electronic books, and 66 electronic reference sources.
The library collections also hold over 1,780 book and serial CDs, 1,300 doctoral dissertations and 11,600 masters theses. Abstracts for doctoral dissertations and some master theses from North American colleges and universities and some accredited international universities are also provided, starting from 1861, with full texts available from the year 1997.
The library's collections are predominantly in
English, but there are also items in
Turkish
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*a Turkic language spoken by the Turks
* of or about Turkey
** Turkish language
*** Turkish alphabet
** Turkish people, a Turkic ethnic group and nation
*** Turkish citizen, a citizen of Turkey
*** Turkish communities and mi ...
,
German
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* Germany (of or related to)
**Germania (historical use)
* Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language
** For citizens of Germany, see also German nationality law
**Ger ...
, and
French
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.
Campuses
Ankara campus
METU main campus in Ankara, used by the university since 1963, is the first university campus of Turkey. It is situated about 10 km west of central Ankara and encompasses an area of , of which constitute the METU Forest.
The campus grounds was transformed into a forest with the continuing help of students and volunteers since the foundation of the university.
The creation of this distinctive campus with its forest was spearheaded by the METU rector from 1961 to 1969,
Kemal Kurdas Kemal may refer to:
;People
* Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, a Turkish politician and the first president of Turkey
* Kemal (name), a common Turkish name
;Places
* KemalpaÅŸa, Ä°zmir Province, Turkey
* MustafakemalpaÅŸa, Bursa Province, Turkey
;See als ...
.
Lake Eymir
Lake Eymir is a small lake in Ankara Province, Turkey. According to notes of ''Seyyah Kandemir'' published by the governorate of Ankara in 1932, the lake was named after a Turkmen tribe named ''Eymür''.
Geography
The lake is about south of ...
near
Gölbaşı, located 15 kilometers from the academic portion of the campus, is used by the students and faculty for rowing and recreational activities. The campus is accessible by several types of public transport, and the construction of METU subway station of the
Ankara Metro on the main entrance to the campus (gate A1) was completed in 2014.
Northern Cyprus campus
The METU Northern Cyprus Campus, the first overseas campus of a Turkish university, 50 km west of
North Nicosia in
Northern Cyprus
Northern Cyprus ( tr, Kuzey Kıbrıs), officially the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC; tr, Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti, ''KKTC''), is a ''de facto'' state that comprises the northeastern portion of the Geography of Cyprus, isl ...
, admitted its first students during the academic year 2002–2003, but the doors were officially opened in Northern Cyprus in September 2005.
Erdemli campus
The METU
Erdemli
Erdemli is a town and district of Mersin Province in the Mediterranean region of Turkey, west of the city of Mersin.
Geography
Erdemli is located between the districts of Mezitli (to the east) and Silifke (to the west). In the north, Erdemli i ...
campus in
Mersin Province on the Mediterranean coast, used by the
Institute/Graduate School of Marine Sciences (''Deniz Bilimleri Enstitüsü'') since 1975, is the first campus of METU outside of Ankara. It is situated about 45 km from
Mersin
Mersin (), also known as İçel, is a large city and a port on the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean coast of southern Turkey. It is the provincial capital of Mersin Province, Mersin (İçel) Province. It is made up of four municipalities and dis ...
. The campus area is 660,000 m
2, close to the shore and surrounded by lemon trees. The laboratory space is about 700 m
2. METU-IMS Harbor is an important shelter for marine biological diversity on the Mersin coast. The harbor is the only intact rocky habitat along the long sandy coast.
Live footage from all campuses can be accessed vi
METU-CAM a collection of six webcams in METU main campus, one in METU Northern Cyprus Campus, and one in the Graduate School of Marine Sciences, in Erdemli, Mersin.
METU-Technopolis
METU-Technopolis, or METUTECH, is the first
science and research park in Turkey.
Founded within the campus, it aims to facilitate the development of companies that conduct substantial
research and development
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to produce high-tech products and services through benefiting from METU's research capacity and information pool. Priority is given to companies executing research and development work on information technologies, advanced materials, energy, automotive, chemistry, biology and environment technologies.
As of 2009, the METU-Technopolis project employs about 3,300 personnel, approximately 2,700 of whom are researchers (86% of the total staff are university graduates, and 23% have MSc, MA, or PhD degrees), working in 240 firms.
Around 90% of the firms are
small and medium enterprises
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(SMEs), 65% of these are specialized in
information and communication technologies
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, 25% in electronics, and 15% in other sectors such as aerospace, environment, bio-technology, nanotechnology, and advanced materials.
The company profile also includes multinationals such as
SBS,
MAN,
Cisco, and
Siemens
Siemens AG ( ) is a German multinational conglomerate corporation and the largest industrial manufacturing company in Europe headquartered in Munich with branch offices abroad.
The principal divisions of the corporation are ''Industry'', '' ...
. To promote entrepreneurship and innovation, the incubation center at the METU-Technopolis serves 38 start-ups and micro sized companies, most of which start their life as spin-offs from METU research projects.
METU-Technopolis hosts partners to several
European Union Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) projects,
such as NICE, SINCERE,
ReSIST,
SmeInnov8gate
and IP4INNO.
Student life and culture
The student life at METU is marked with activities of student societies, frequent
political protests
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Protests can be thought of as acts of coopera ...
, and festivals. The Cultural and Convention Center continually hosts a wide spectrum of cultural events and also regular occurrences such as the METU Jazz Days and METU Art Festival. The event with the largest number of participants is the annual METU Spring Festival, a five-day-long series of open-air concerts and exhibitions held at the main campus.
There are various traits shared by METU students, including the usage of an English–Turkish
jargon (METUrkish, ODTÜrkçe as once named by an alumnus artist in an art project) which apparently stems from the fact that English is the language of instruction covering academic processes and student life (and blending into campus language similar to Persian, Arabic and later French in the past blended into Turkish to form Ottoman technical language), which reputedly is not liked much by the students of other universities; and the omnipresent word "''Hocam''" (meaning "''My Teacher''"), which is used by METU students to address anyone from bus drivers to senior faculty members. Underneath this phrase lies the philosophy that everyone has something to learn from each other.
The main campus has dormitory capacity for nearly 7,000 students who benefit from the shopping center, banks, post office, and a wide variety of sports facilities, including gymnasiums, tennis courts, basketball and football fields, jogging trails, Olympic-size indoor swimming pool, and an outdoor swimming pool.
Student organizations
There are numerous student organizations active in METU.
Some of these are:
METU Pride march
METU Pride march has been held annually since 2011.
The 2022 Pride march was banned by the university, and the university threatened to summon police if it should proceed.
The 9th annual Pride march held 2019 found students and faculty met with pepper spray, tear gas and rubber bullets used by police. Some were dragged on the ground and others sustained head injuries. 18 students and an academic were arrested and released late in the night on the same day. Following a letter from the Ankara Security Office, arrested students had their KYK scholarships and credits terminated. The arrested were prosecuted, and they were acquitted October 2021, with the university's ban found lacking legal basis.
Notable people
Faculty
*
Behram KurÅŸunoÄŸlu
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(1956–1958) – physicist, B.Sc. and M.Sc. at
University of Edinburgh and Phd in
University of Cambridge, best known for his works on unified field theory and participated in the discovery of two different types of neutrinos in the late 1950s
*
Cahit Arf
Cahit Arf (; 24 October 1910 – 26 December 1997) was a Turkish mathematician. He is known for the Arf invariant of a quadratic form in characteristic 2 (applied in knot theory and surgery theory) in topology, the Hasse–Arf theorem ...
(1967–1980) – known for
Arf invariant
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, B.Sc. and M.Sc. in mathematics at
École Normale Supérieure
*
Erdal İnönü (president 1970–1971, faculty 1964–1974) – B.Sc. and M.Sc. in physics at Middle East Technical University and Phd. at
California Institute of Technology and former
Prime Minister of Turkey
The prime minister of the Republic of Turkey (Turkish language, Turkish: ''Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Başbakanı'') was the head of government of the Republic of Turkey from 1920 to 2018, who led a political coalition in the Grand National Assembly of ...
*
Feza Gürsey
Feza Gürsey (; April 7, 1921 – April 13, 1992) was a Turkish mathematician and physicist. Among his most prominent contributions to theoretical physics, his works on the Chiral model and on SU(6) are most popular.
Early life
Feza Gürse ...
(1961–1974) – Theoretic physicist – B.Sc. in mathematics and physics at
Istanbul University
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, latin_name = Universitas Istanbulensis
, motto = tr, Tarihten Geleceğe Bilim Köprüsü
, mottoeng = Science Bridge from Past to the Future
, established = 1453 1846 1933
...
and Phd at
Imperial College London and receiver of
Wigner Medal
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in 1986
*
Halil Berktay
Halil Berktay is a Turkish people, Turkish historian at Ibn Haldun University and was columnist for the daily ''Taraf''.
Life and career
Berktay was born into an intellectual Turkish communist family. His father, Erdogan Berktay, was a member o ...
(1992–1997) – Historian, currently at
Sabancı University
*
Kemal DerviÅŸ
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– (1973–1976) – economist – Alma Mater:
London School of Economics,
Princeton University former head of the
United Nations Development Programme, former vice-president of the
World Bank for the Middle East, former
Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey
*
Kemal Karpat (1958–1959, 1968–1971) – Historian, currently at
University of Wisconsin–Madison
*
Hakkı Ögelman (1970–1990) – physicist and astrophysicist
*
Oktay Sinanoğlu – physical chemistry, molecular biophysics and biochemistry – B.Sc. and Phd at
University of California, Berkeley, M.Sc. at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology receiver of
Humboldt Prize in 1973 and two-time nominee for
Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
*
Ordal Demokan
Ordal Demokan (January 13, 1946 – October 29, 2004) was a Turkish physicist.
Biography
Born in Istanbul, Turkey, Demokan graduated from TED Ankara Koleji in 1962, and received his BSc and MSc degrees on Electrical Engineering in 1966 and 196 ...
(1946–2004) – physicist, electrical engineer
*
Ulus Baker
Ulus Sedat Baker (July 14, 1960 in Ankara, Turkey – July 12, 2007 in İstanbul, Turkey) was a Turkish Cypriot sociology, sociologist. Baker was born to a cosmopolitan family; his mother was the Cypriot poet Pembe Marmara, and his father was the p ...
– Sociologist
*
Tarik Ogurtani
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Etymology
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- Experimental and theoretical solid-state physicist, materials scientist. Professor Emeritus of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering @ METU.
*
Robert Langlands (1967–1968) – mathematician, B.Sc. at
University of British Columbia and Ph.D. at
Yale University.
Alumni
*
Abdullah Atalar (B.Eng.) in electronics engineering, M.Sc. and Ph.D. in
Stanford University
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, former president of
Bilkent University
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*
Ahmet Bozer
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E ...
(B.BA.) – vice president of
The Coca-Cola Company
*
Alev Alatlı Alev Alatlı (born 1944 in Menemen) is a Turkish columnist and bestselling novelist.
Early years
She was born 1944 in the town of Menemen in western Turkey to an officer's family. She spent her childhood in Japan, where her father was appointed a ...
(B.S. 1963) – Economics, economist, writer and columnist
*
Ali Babacan
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(B.S. 1988) – Politician and former
Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey
*
Ataç İmamoğlu
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Education
Ä°mamoÄŸlu graduated from ...
(B.Eng.) electrical engineering – Ph.D.
Stanford University
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, former researcher at
Harvard University and currently head of Quantum Photonics Group and professor at
ETHZ (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
*
Aylin Nazlıaka
Aylin Nazlıaka (born 1968 in Ankara) is a Turkish politician and businesswoman from the Republican People's Party.
Education and professional career
She holds a bachelor's degree in Economics from the Middle East Technical University. She co ...
(B.S.) – Economics, businesswoman and politician, Emerging Leaders program at
Harvard Kennedy School and former lecturer at
Bilkent University
Bilkent University ( tr, Bilkent Üniversitesi) is a private university located in Ankara, Turkey. It was founded by Prof. İhsan Doğramacı in 1984, with the aim of creating a center of excellence in higher education and research. It is constan ...
, member of
Republican People's Party
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*
Amir Farshad Ebrahimi (Ph.D.), Human rights activist in Iran, journalist
*
Burçak Özoğlu Poçan
Burçak Poçan, née Özoğlu, (1970) is a mountaineer and one of the first Turkish women to climb over 8,000 m.
Burçak was born on January 4, 1970, in Ankara. Following her graduation from the School of Business Administration at the Middle ...
(B.S.) – Mountaineer, one of the four Turkish female summiters of
Mount Everest
*
Naşide Gözde Durmuş
Naside Gözde Durmuş (born 1985, Izmir) is a Turkish scientist and geneticist. She is currently Assistant Professor (Research) of Radiology at Stanford University. Her research focuses on nanotechnology and micro-technology applications on curr ...
(B.S. 2007) – scientist at
Stanford University
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, recognized among the "World's Top 35 Innovators Under 35" (TR35) in 2015, as a pioneer in biotechnology and medicine, by
MIT Technology Review
*
Can Dündar
Can Dündar (, born 16 June 1961) is a Turkish journalist, columnist and documentarian. Editor-in-chief of center-left ''Cumhuriyet'' newspaper until August 2016, he was arrested in November 2015 after his newspaper published footage showing the ...
(M.S. 1988, Ph.D. 1996) – journalist, B.S. in journalism at
London School of Journalism
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, receiver of
Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders (RWB; french: Reporters sans frontières; RSF) is an international non-profit and non-governmental organization with the stated aim of safeguarding the right to freedom of information. It describes its advocacy as found ...
prize in 2015
*
Cevdet Yılmaz (B.Sc.) – Economics, Ph.D. in
Bilkent University
Bilkent University ( tr, Bilkent Üniversitesi) is a private university located in Ankara, Turkey. It was founded by Prof. İhsan Doğramacı in 1984, with the aim of creating a center of excellence in higher education and research. It is constan ...
and former
Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey and minister at
Ministry of Development (Turkey)
The Ministry of Development ( tr, Kalkınma Bakanlığı) was a government ministry in the Republic of Turkey that was formed on 29 June 2011 after the dissolution of the State Planning Organisation. The Ministry was led by Minister of Developme ...
*
Cüneyd Düzyol
Mustafa Cüneyd Düzyol (born 1964) is a Turkish academic and civil servant who served as the Minister of Development in the interim election government led by Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu between 22 September and 17 November 2015. He took ove ...
(1988) – B.Eng. in Civil Engineering, M.Sc. in economics at
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and former minister at
Ministry of Development (Turkey)
The Ministry of Development ( tr, Kalkınma Bakanlığı) was a government ministry in the Republic of Turkey that was formed on 29 June 2011 after the dissolution of the State Planning Organisation. The Ministry was led by Minister of Developme ...
*
Ece Sükan
Ece Sükan (born 1977) is a Turkish actress and stylist, creative director and fashion editor who works in Istanbul and New York. She has been called a "Turkish street style star."
Work
Sükan was the editor-at-large for ''Vogue Turkey'' from ...
(B.S. 1998) – Turkish model and former editor-at-large at
''Vogue'' Turkey
*
Elif Şafak – Best-selling Turkish novelist and columnist, receiver of
Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
The ''Ordre des Arts et des Lettres'' (Order of Arts and Letters) is an order of France established on 2 May 1957 by the Minister of Culture. Its supplementary status to the was confirmed by President Charles de Gaulle in 1963. Its purpose is ...
in 2010
*
Emin Çölaşan – Famous Turkish dissenter journalist/columnist
*
Emre Koksal
Can Emre Koksal is an electrical engineer, computer scientist, academic, and entrepreneur. He is the Founder and CEO of Datanchor, and a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Ohio State University.
Koksal is best known for his res ...
- Computer scientist, electrical engineer and entrepreneur
*
Eren Bali
Eren Bali (born 1984, Malatya, Turkey) is a Turkish engineer and technology entrepreneur. based in the United States. He was the founding CEO of Udemy, a platform and marketplace for massive open online courses (MOOCs), and he is now the found ...
(B.S. 2005) – Mathematics and Computer Engineering, founder and CEO of
Udemy
*
Erdem Duhan Özensoy
Erdem Duhan Özensoy (born 1988) is a Turkish businessman and industrialist. Born in Ankara as the only son of one of Erol Ozensoy, he attended high school at Ted Ankara College. Duhan then studied at the Middle East Technical University and rece ...
(B.S. 2009) – Businessman, boardmember of
Kimetsan
Kimetsan is one of the largest chemical companies in Turkey today. In terms of product number, the company is the biggest manufacturer of laboratory chemicals in Turkey. The company has also one of the most advanced technologys in waterborne coatin ...
*
Erdem Başçı
Erdem Başçı (born 1966) is a Turkish economist and the former Governor of the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey in 2010s.
Early life
He was born in 1966 in Ankara. After finishing the high school at TED Ankara College in 1983, Erdem Ba ...
(B.Sc.) electronic engineering – M.Sc. in
Johns Hopkins University, M.Sc., Ph.D. and professor of economics in
Bilkent University
Bilkent University ( tr, Bilkent Üniversitesi) is a private university located in Ankara, Turkey. It was founded by Prof. İhsan Doğramacı in 1984, with the aim of creating a center of excellence in higher education and research. It is constan ...
and head of
Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey
The Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey, CBRT ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyet Merkez Bankası, TCMB, literally "The Turkish Republic Central Bank") is the central bank of Turkey. Its responsibilities include conducting monetary and exchange rate pol ...
*
Erol Gelenbe (B.S. 1966) electronic engineering – MSc. and Ph.D. at
Polytechnic Institute of New York University, D.Sc. at
Pierre and Marie Curie University
Pierre and Marie Curie University (french: link=no, Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie, UPMC), also known as Paris 6, was a public university, public research university in Paris, France, from 1971 to 2017. The university was located on the Jussi ...
and professor at
Imperial College
Imperial College London (legally Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom. Its history began with Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria, who developed his vision for a cu ...
, London
*
Eylem Elif Maviş Eylem Elif Maviş, née Koç, (born November 9, 1973) is the first Turkey, Turkish woman mountaineer to climb Mount Everest, the highest mountain on Earth.
Elif was born on in Tokat, Turkey. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in environmen ...
(B.S., M.B.A.) – Mountaineer, first Turkish female summiter of
Mount Everest
*
Fikri Işık
Fikri Işık MP (born 13 September 1965) is a Turkish politician who served as the last Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey from 2017 to 2018. Previously, he served as Minister of Science, Industry and Technology from 2013 to 2016 and Minister of ...
– Educator, politician and
Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology (Turkey)
The Ministry of Industry and Technology ( tr, Sanayi ve Teknoloji Bakanlığı) is a government ministry office of the Republic of Turkey, responsible for industrial and commercial affairs in Turkey. The ministry is headed by Mustafa Varank.
Ref ...
*
Gülnur Tumbat
Gülnur Tumbat (born 1975) is a Turkish female academic in marketing as well as amateur mountain climber and ultramarathon runner. Currently, she lives in San Francisco, California.
Early years
Gülnur Tumbat was born to a teacher father and ...
– Academic of Marketing, mountaineer
*
Hakan Topal
Hakan Topal is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. He was the co-founder with Guven Incirlioglu of xurban collective (2000–12), and is known for his research-based conceptual art practice. He is an Associate Professor of New Medi ...
(B.Sc. 1996, M.Sc. 1999) – Civil Engineering and Gender and Women's Studies – Artist, professor at
Purchase College, New York
*
Ibrahim Tarik Ozbolat
Ibrahim ( ar, إبراهيم, links=no ') is the Arabic name for Abraham, a Biblical patriarch and prophet in Islam.
For the Islamic view of Ibrahim, see Abraham in Islam.
Ibrahim may also refer to:
* Ibrahim (name), a name (and list of people w ...
(B.S. 2006, B.S. 2007) Mechanical engineering – academician at the
Pennsylvania State University
The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State or PSU) is a Public university, public Commonwealth System of Higher Education, state-related Land-grant university, land-grant research university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsylvan ...
*
Ilkay Altintas
Ilkay Altintas is a Turkish-American data and computer scientist, and researcher in the domain of supercomputing and high-performance computing applications. Since 2015, Altintas has served as chief data science officer of the San Diego Supercomp ...
(B.S. 1999, M.S. 2001) Computer engineering - Chief Data Science Officer of
San Diego Supercomputer Center
*
Javaid Laghari
Javaid Laghari (Urdu: جاويد لغارى; ''TI'' is a Pakistani American who has served as senator, science and technology administrator, president of a university, professor of electrical and computer engineering, and is the author of ...
(M.S. EE 1975) – Ph.D. SUNY Buffalo 1980, former senator in
Pakistan Senate, former president and project director SZABIST, chairperson Higher Education Commission (HEC)(YOK), Pakistan, coordinator general COMSTECH, commissioner higher education, Ministry of Education, UAE
*
Kürşad Tüzmen
Kürşad Tüzmen (born October 9, 1958) is a Turkish former civil servant and Minister of State of Turkey responsible for foreign trade. He held this position between 2002 and 2009.
Personal life
Kürşad Tüzmen was born to Nuray and his wife ...
(B.S. 1981) – M.Sc. in international relations at
University of Illinois and former
Minister of International Trade and Customs (Turkey)
Minister may refer to:
* Minister (Christianity), a Christian cleric
** Minister (Catholic Church)
* Minister (government), a member of government who heads a ministry (government department)
** Minister without portfolio, a member of government w ...
*
Mehmet Ali Talat (M.Sc. 1977) – President of
Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
*
Mehrafza Mirzazad Barijugh
Mehrafza Mirzazad Barijugh ( Oroumieh, 8 September 1985) is an Iranian designer, industrial designer, living in the United States. She completed her studies in industrial design in Turkey, at Middle East Technical University, Middle East Technical ...
(B.S. 2009) – Industrial designer
Red Dot Design: Design Concept Best of the Best award 2010
*
Nabi Avci
Nabi may refer to:
People
*Adil Nabi (born 1994), English footballer
* Heiki Nabi (born 1985), Estonian wrestler
*Isadore Nabi, satirical pseudonym of Richard Levins and Richard Lewontin, scientists in the 1960s
* Mohammad Nabi (born 1985), Afghan ...
(B.S. 1986) – board member of
Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey chairman of the Turkey National Committee of
UNESCO, minister of
Ministry of National Education (Turkey)
*
Müge Fermen
Müge is a given name. Notable people with the name include:
*Müge Anlı (born 1973), Turkish television presenter and journalist
*Müge Çevik, Turkish-British physician
See also
*Muge (surname) Muge is a surname. Notable people with the surnam ...
(B.S. 1986) – First female aeronautical engineering graduate. MS in aerospace engineering and PhD in mechanical engineering from University of Dayton, Ohio, US. Award-winning program manager in R&D.
*
Salih Neftçi
Salih Nur Neftçi (14 July 1947 – 15 April 2009) was a leading expert in the fields of financial markets and financial engineering. He served many advisory roles in national and international financial institutions, and was an active researche ...
(B.S.) – economist, financial expert, author of the book ''An Introduction to Mathematics of Financial Derivatives''
*
Serhan Poçan
Serhan Poçan (1970) is a Turkish mountaineer and a summiter of Mount Everest.
He was born on April 11, 1970, in Konya, Turkey. Serhan graduated Middle East Technical University, Ankara with a BS degree in Mathematics. Currently, he is working a ...
(B.S.) – Mountaineer, summiter of Mount Everest
*
Svante Cornell (B.S.) – International relations, founder of
Institute for Security and Development Policy, associate professor at
Johns Hopkins University – SAIS and associate professor (part-time) at Uppsala University.
*
Rita Orji (MS.C, 2009) – Computer Science Professor,
Canada Research Chair
Canada Research Chair (CRC) is a title given to certain Canadian university research professors by the Canada Research Chairs Program.
Program goals
The Canada Research Chair program was established in 2000 as a part of the Government of Canada ...
, Top 150 Canadian Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM), Member,
Royal Society of Canada
The Royal Society of Canada (RSC; french: Société royale du Canada, SRC), also known as the Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada (French: ''Académies des arts, des lettres et des sciences du Canada''), is the senior national, bil ...
,
Global Young Academy
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Membership strength is capped at 200, and the membership tenure is 5 years.
Organization and membership
Th ...
, Top 100 Canada's Most Powerful Women
*
Åžebnem Ferah
Åžebnem Ferah (born 12 April 1972) is a Turkish singer, songwriter, composer, and guitarist. She was the lead vocalist of the all-female hard rock band Volvox until 1994, after which she went on to pursue an illustrious solo career. Her music st ...
(B.S.) – famous rock singer and songwriter
*
Süreyya Serdengeçti
Süreyya Serdengeçti is a Turkish economist and former Governor of the Central Bank of Turkey. He is currently working as a lecturer in Economics at the TOBB University of Economics and Technology in Ankara, Turkey.
Early life
He was born in 1 ...
(B.S. 1979) – economist, former governor of the
Central Bank of Turkey
The Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey, CBRT ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyet Merkez Bankası, TCMB, literally "The Turkish Republic Central Bank") is the central bank of Turkey. Its responsibilities include conducting monetary and exchange rate pol ...
*
Taner Akçam
Altuğ Taner Akçam (born 1953) is a Turkish-German historian and sociologist. During the 1990s, he was the first Turkish scholar to acknowledge the Armenian genocide, and has written several books on the genocide, such as '' A Shameful Act'' ( ...
(B.S. 1976) – Historian, sociologist and author
*
Tülay Adali
Tülay is a common feminine Turkish given name. In Turkish, "Tülay" may be used to express "Delicate as a tulle" and "Bright like the moon". However, as Given Name it means "tulle moon" a combination of both the previous meanings.
People
* TÃ ...
(B.S. 1987) – electrical engineer, M.Sc. and Phd at
North Carolina State University
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and distinguished university professor at
University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Fellow of the
American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, Fellow of the
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operation ...
*
Tugce Aktas (B.S.) – PhD at
EMBL
The European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) is an intergovernmental organization dedicated to molecular biology research and is supported by 27 member states, two prospect states, and one associate member state. EMBL was created in 1974 and ...
, Max Planck Research Group Leader at the
Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics
The Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics is a research institute for molecular genetics based in Berlin, Germany. It is part of the Max Planck Institute network of the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science.
Departments and rese ...
.
*
Tunç Hamarat (B.S.) – chess player –
grandmaster and
International Correspondence Chess Federation World Champion in 2004
*
Turgay Uzer
Ahmet Turgay Uzer is a Turkish-born American theoretical physicist and nature photographer.
Regents' Professor Emeritus at Georgia Institute of Technology following Joseph Ford (physicist). He has contributed in the field of atomic and molecula ...
(B.S.) – Theoretical physicist, PhD in
Harvard University Regent's professor at
Georgia Institute of Technology
The Georgia Institute of Technology, commonly referred to as Georgia Tech or, in the state of Georgia, as Tech or The Institute, is a public research university and institute of technology in Atlanta, Georgia. Established in 1885, it is part of ...
*
Umran Inan
Umran Savaş İnan ( tr, Ümran Savaş İnan; born December 28, 1950) is a scientist at Koç University and Stanford University in the field of geophysics and very low frequency radio science. He received his PhD from Stanford in 1977 under the ...
(B.Sc. and M.Sc.) electrical engineering – Ph.D. in electrical engineering at
Stanford University
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and president of
Koç University and Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA group achievement award in 1983, 1998 and 2004.
*
Yasemin Dalkılıç
Yasemin Dalkılıç (born 2 May 1979) is a Turkish female free diver. She holds numerous records in different categories of free diving. Though still in the middle of her career, she is already considered to be one of the all-time greats in the s ...
(B.S.) – Mathematics – Holder of world records in
free diving
*
Abzal Saparbekuly
Abzal is a given name. Notable people with the name include:
*Abzal Azhgaliyev (born 1992), Kazakh speed skater
* Abzal Beysebekov (born 1992), Kazakh footballer
* Abzal Dean (born 1983), Canadian cricketer
*Abzal Rakimgaliev
Abzal Rakimgaliev ( ...
(B.S.) – Ambassador of the
Republic of Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbekis ...
to Turkey
*
M. Tamer Özsu
M. Tamer Özsu, FRSC (born March 18, 1951) is a Turkish Canadian computer scientist working in the area of distributed and parallel data management. He is a University Professor in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the Univers ...
(B.S. 1974, M.S. 1978) – PhD at
Ohio State University; University Professor at
University of Waterloo Cheriton School of Computer Science; Fellow of
Royal Society of Canada
The Royal Society of Canada (RSC; french: Société royale du Canada, SRC), also known as the Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada (French: ''Académies des arts, des lettres et des sciences du Canada''), is the senior national, bil ...
, Fellow of
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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, Fellow of
Association of Computing Machinery, Fellow of
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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.
See also
*
Gazete ODTÜLÜ
Gazete ODTÜLÜ is an independent, unofficial online student newspaper of METU (''ODTÜ'' in Turkish) in Ankara, Turkey.
Brief overview
When a group of students of METU founded Gazete ODTÜLÜ in October 2006, they have become the first online ca ...
*
Institute of technology
*
List of universities in Ankara
*
List of universities in Turkey
*
METU Science and Technology Museum
METU Science and Technology Museum ( tr, ODTÜ Bilim ve Teknoloji Müzesi) is a museum established within the campus of the Middle East Technical University, Ankara,
Turkey. The museum is aimed to present the modern technological tools as well as ...
*
List of Middle East Technical University rectors
Below is the list of rectors of the Middle East Technical University in Turkey. The first rector was Turhan Feyzioğlu. The incumbent rector is Mustafa Verşan Kök.
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! Rector (president)!! Duration
, -
, Turhan FeyzioÄŸlu, ...
References
External links
Middle East Technical University(official web site)
METU Northern Cyprus Campus(official web site)
METU-Technopolis(official web site)
METU Campus Map
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Technical universities and colleges in Turkey
Engineering universities and colleges in Turkey
Educational institutions established in 1956
1956 establishments in Turkey