Sürdürülebilir Yeşil Kampüs Koleksiyonu / Sustainable Green Campus Collection
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Report İzmir Institute of Technology Sustainability Report 2023(01. Izmir Institute of Technology, 2023)The IZTECH Sustainable Green Campus Coordinatorship was founded in 2014. A search conference for a sustainable living campus with the tagline “happy campus” was held with the campus actors’ collective participation. However, it was not until December 2019 that a Framework on Sustainable Campus was defined. IZTECH has decided to apply the UI GreenMetric for critical self-evaluation and development in the field of sustainability in 2020 and continued to do so in 2021 and 2022 as well. With the motto of “happy campus, happy peninsula, happy Izmir,” the IZTECH Sustainable Green Campus Coordination group was formed. It consists of 12 academics including our rector, our academicians who are expert in the field and young and enthusiastic teaching assistants. Most importantly, our Coordinatorship continues today thanks to the support of eco motion and numerous other student communities. As a result, we are able to assure the sustainability of our campus through bottom-up development.Report İzmir Institute of Technology Sustainability Report 2022(01. Izmir Institute of Technology, 2022)İzmir Institute of Technology (IZTECH) aims at creating a sustainable and resilient campus environment that outreaches the boundaries of the campus in order to serve the in-campus and out-campus communities alike. In line with this main aim, IZTECH has initiated application to the Greenmetric World University Ranking that was developed by Universitas Indonesia. Therefore, IZTECH has undertaken a gap analysis in terms of its sustainability performance by determining the current situation and the future targets. There were 6 main topics to investigate and eventually improve: Setting and Infrastructure, Energy and Climate, Waste, Water, Transportation, Education and Research. October 2022 marks IZTECH’s third year of application to the Greenmetric Ranking. • In its first year IZTECH was ranked 217th out of 912 institutions. • In its second year, IZTECH was ranked 198th out of 956. In order to determine the scopes to develop and improve from each ranking IZTECH endeavors to create a sustainable campus environment. With a motto of “happy campus, happy peninsula, happy Izmir”, the IZTECH Sustainable Green working group was set up – consisting of 35 volunteering academics, employers, researchers, assistants as well as 15 students from the Eco-motion Student initiative - for a sustainable future.Report İzmir Institute of Technology Sustainability Report 2021(01. Izmir Institute of Technology, 2021)İzmir Institute of Technology (IZTECH) aims at creating a sustainable and resilient campus environment that outreaches the boundaries of the campus in order to serve the in-campus and out-campus communities alike. In line with this main aim, IZTECH has initiated application to the Greenmetric World University Ranking that was developed by Universitas Indonesia. Therefore, IZTECH has undertaken a gap analysis in terms of its sustainability performance by determining the current situation and the future targets. There were 6 main topics to investigate and eventually improve: Setting and Infrastructure, Energy and Climate, Waste, Water, Transportation, Education and Research. October 2021 marks IZTECH’s second year of application to the Greenmetric Ranking. In its first year IZTECH was ranked 217th out of 912 institutions. In order to determine the scopes to develop and improve from each rankingIZTECH endeavors to create a sustainable campus environmentConference Object Citation - WoS: 14Citation - Scopus: 16Drying of Olive Leaves in a Geothermal Dryer and Determination of Quality Parameters of Dried Product(Elsevier, 2019) Helvacı, Hüseyin Utku; Menon, Abhay; Aydemir, Levent Yurdaer; Korel, Figen; Gökçen Akkurt, GüldenIn this study, a cabinet type geothermal dryer was designed, operated and tested for drying olive leaves with minimum losses of phenolic content and antioxidant capacity by optimization of drying conditions. Two factors; face centered central composite design was applied and response surface methodology was used to optimize the drying conditions of olive leaves. The results indicate that phenolic content stability were mainly affected by air temperature, whereas antioxidant capacity is affected by both air temperature and velocity (p<0.05). The optimal drying conditions were found to be at 50°C of air temperature and 1 m/s of air velocity for the minimum losses of determined quality parameters, where 88.8% of phenolic content and 95.3% of antioxidant capacity were recovered.Conference Object Citation - WoS: 3Citation - Scopus: 4Biofabrication of Cellular Structures Using Weightlessness as a Biotechnological Tool(IEEE, 2019) Anıl İnevi, Müge; Sarıgil, Öykü; Yaman, Sena; Yalçın Özuysal, Özden; Meşe, Gülistan; Tekin, Hüseyin Cumhur; Özçivici, EnginGravity is an important biomechanical signal effecting the morphology and function of organisms. Reduction of gravitational forces, as experienced during spaceflight, cause alterations in the biological systems. Magnetic levitation technique is one of the most recent ground-based technology to mimic weightlessness environment. In addition to providing a platform to investigate biological effects of the weightlessness, this platform presents a novel opportunity to biofabricate 3-dimensional (3D) structures in a scaffold-and nozzle-free fashion. In this study, various controllable self-assembled 3D living structures were fabricated via magnetic levitation technique. This strategy may offer an easy and cost-effective opportunity for a wide range of space biotechnology researches.Conference Object Citation - WoS: 4Citation - Scopus: 5Application of Magnetic Levitation Induced Weightlessness To Detect Cell Lineage(IEEE, 2019) Sarıgil, Öykü; Anıl İnevi, Müge; Yılmaz, Esra; Çağan, Melike; Meşe, Gülistan; Tekin, Hüseyin Cumhur; Özçivici, EnginIdentification and classification of bone marrow cells is an important step for molecular biology and therapeutic studies related to bone marrow disorders such as osteoporosis or obesity. In this study, we applied magnetic levitation technology to induce a weightlessness environment to detect adipocytes and osteoblasts based on their single cell density. This biotechnological method can be used for separation of heterogeneous populations such as bone marrow once adapted to a continuous microfluidic platform.Master Thesis Assessing the Walkability Principles: the Case Study of Mehmetçik Boulevard(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2019) Bağcı, Seda; Kaya Erol, NursenWalkability is defined as the action of the human being to go from one place to another. The streets are one of the most important parts of the built environment and their using by pedestrians increases urban consciousness and social ties. The quality of walkability varies according to the location, usage, and character of the public space. Walkability issue has become more important due to urban growth and an increase in vehicle usage in today's' cities. Increasing walkability in a city increases livability. The aim of this thesis is to assess the walkability quality of urban streets considering walkability principles. In this context, the thesis aims to investigate the principles that affect walkability in urban centers and considering walkability principles to examine the built environment characteristics and pedestrians' usage of a street through a case study. The thesis also attempts to offer recommendations for creating more walkable spaces. For these purposes, firstly, the definition and importance of the concept of walkability are examined. Secondly, walkability principles of the streets in urban centers are established. Thirdly, Mehmetçik Boulevard, which is located in one of the sub-centers of İzmir and used intensively during the day, is evaluated according to the walkability principles. In this study, the walkability quality of the boulevard is examined and assessed in the context of diversity, accessibility, safety, street quality, comfort and legibility principles. Finally, as a result of the literature study and the case study, recommendations are provided to increase walkability quality of Mehmetçik Boulevard, and as well as for urban streets of other cities.Master Thesis Assessment of Wood Laminated Material for Housing Production(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2019) Balkan, Selçuk; İnceköse, ÜlküToday, laminated wood material is used in different types of structures. In many countries such as our country, as well as countries where this usage is intense, laminated wood material is not preferred in housing production yet. Although it seems that reinforced concrete structures have replaced wooden structures today, environmentally sensitive approaches expressed with concepts such as sustainability, ecological balance and repeatability have enabled the reuse of wood material. In this study, the properties of laminated wood technology, which is predicted to be an alternative technology to conventional construction technologies, are evaluated. With this assessment, laminated wood technology could be an alternative structure production technology in our country. At the beginning of the study, wood materials, wood damaging factors, composite wood materials, the use of wood in residential production and the use of laminated wood in residential production were examined under four main headings. The properties of wood materials and laminated wood materials were examined in detail and the methods, advantages and disadvantages of these materials were determined. This study is detailed on the structure of JZ House which was designed and built by architect Serhat AKBAY in Antalya with laminated wood technology. The laminated wooden parts produced for the building were examined based on scientific data on the design process, static resistance of the building, fire resistance, sustainability, environmental and human health contributions. With the evaluation, it is aimed to increase the preference of wooden structures constructed with developing wood technology.Master Thesis Plant-On Devices for Sed Screening(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2019) Yetgin, Ali; Pesen Okvur, Devrim; Canlı, KeremThanks to their roots, plants take the required molecules from the soil, therefore their research is important. The fact that absorption takes place from the root hair makes the observations necessary. The inadequacy of traditional methods requires the development of new methods to ensure their observations, especially during root studies. The fact that chip systems have the features that can overcome the problems has caused plant researches by using this method. The fact that environmental factors can be imitated in chip systems paves the way for abiotic stresses to work. Although abiotic stresses have been studied extensively on plants, seed germination and subsequent root extension and root hair formation have not been studied in detail except for the model organism (Arabidopsis thaliana). The use of chip system for plant studies of scientists have begun the 21st century is also reveals the need to do more work in this area. Researchers show that they are excited about the advantages they bring to the system and that necessary studies will be carried out in other side branches. It is thought that more research will be done by using chip systems after a short time. By using chip systems, a suitable environment for seed growth can be provided and environmental conditions can be simulated. By creating the desired controlled environment, it is possible to create a system which results in less time and less cost in order to replace the inconvenient and expensive method.Master Thesis A Dedicated Server Design for Physical Web Applications(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2019) Abdennebi, Anes; Ayav, TolgaWith the huge impressive technological improvements the world is witnessing where giants like Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft and other technology companies are offering different services to millions of clients, services which don’t take usually more than seconds to be within the users’ devices besides the Physical Web applications that makes things interacts, having entities and can be reached based on the proximity context without omitting the incoming IoT infrastructure that would make 20.4 billion devices connected by 2020, the amount of data transferred, and services provided will be enormous and along with that, the big energy consumer standing behind providing clients with the needed data and services instantly, the web servers. Although it has a magnificent performance and responds to billions of queries and requests, however, there is still a crucial point which must be highlighted, the remarkable amounts of energy consumption by these servers. Therefore, this work is proposing a new approach in order to reduce the energy consumption in such a scenario where the 18-core energy efficient computer Parallella board will be used in order to create an energy efficient server that can offer many services triggered by various devices or any ordinary web requests across any environment and to prove also that using a cluster of Parallella supercomputers may perform as other similar servers dealing with web content (e.g. Raspberry Pi server). We will show how would these boards work under low energy feeding where users can access a web content hosted on a Parallella cluster. The source codes of the project are available on GitHub.