Biomedical Engineering at Izmir University of Economics

03/07/2022

Pandemics, vaccines, IVD tests, life support units... Every day we need more of us to meet the growing needs of the society...

27/05/2022

TÜBİTAK Bilim İnsanı Destek Programları Başkanlığı tarafından yürütülen 2209-A Üniversite Öğrencileri Araştırma Projeleri Destekleme Programı 2022 yılı 2. dönem değerlendirme sonuçları açıklandı.

Başvuru sonuçlarına göre bölümümüz öğrencileri tarafından yapılan başvurulardan 5 proje başarılı olarak destek almaya hak kazanmıştır.

Destek kazanan öğrencilerimizi ve proje başvurularını teşvik eden, danışmanlık yapan hocalarımızı tebrik ediyor ve başarılarının devamını diliyoruz.

Destek almaya hak kazanan projeler:

1-EEG Controlled Drone

Danışman: Prof. Dr. Aydın AKAN

Araştırmacılar: Emine KARAARSLAN, Utku Deniz DEMİR, Oktay ISISOY, Berkay DALCALI

2-Tracking Facial Expressions and Vital Signs to Determine Attentiveness of Students in Real Time Using Machine Learning

Danışman: Prof. Dr. Aydın AKAN

Araştırmacılar: Eda YURDAKUL, Efe ERGUN, Taha SÖKÜCÜ, Can YILDIZ

3-Uzaktan egzersiz imkânı sağlayan düşük maliyetli el-bilek rehabilitasyon robotunun tasarlanması ve prototipinin üretilmesi

Danışman: Dr. Öğr. Ebru SAYILGAN

Araştırmacılar: Eyyüp Berkant AKIN, Nurefşan Kuzey, Begüm Küçük, Duygu Baran

4-SSVEP Tabanlı Beyin Bilgisayar Arayüzü Destekli Robotik Kol Tasarımı ve Prototipinin Üretilmesi (2209-B - Üniversite Öğrencileri Sanayiye Yönelik Araştırma Projeleri Desteği Programı)

Danışman: Dr. Öğr. Ebru SAYILGAN

Araştırmacılar: Rabia HAMURCU , Meryem Beyza Avcı, Özge Ada Bozbaş, Ege Gürman

5-Floresans Temelli DNA/RNA Ölçüm Cihazı Geliştirilmesi

Danışman: Doç. Dr. Osman DOLUCA

Araştırmacılar: Cansu Ozan, Hezzal küçükselbes, Berk Demirkıran

26/05/2022

16/04/2022

We are hiring Postdoctoral Researcher... For more info;

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15/04/2022

Kariyer hayatınızda bilinçli adımlarla ilerlemenize destek olmak için Nisan ayında “Kariyer Günleri” etkinlikleri düzenliyoruz. İşverenlerle bir araya gelebileceğiniz, iş&staj fırsatları keşfedebileceğiniz bu etkinlikleri sakın kaçırmayın.
Daha fazla bilgiye aşağıdaki bağlantıdan ulaşabilirsiniz;
https://bme.ieu.edu.tr/tr/news/type/read/id/8069

11/08/2020

“Mühendislik Fakültemiz, MÜDEK tarafından yapılan 46 kriterlik değerlendirmeden başarıyla geçti. Mühendislikte sınırları kaldırdık, İzmir Ekonomi diploması Avrupa ve Amerika'nın her yerinde geçerli... 💪🏻😎 https://t.co/8rSVdkx1Qk”

07/08/2020

31/07/2020

We would like to share with you brief information about the graduation projects of our students who are currently eligible to graduate and continue their graduation projects.

The main subject of our senior project is ‘Biomedical Spectroscopy of Artificial Human Samples/Biomolecules for Diagnostic Purposes Combined with Machine Learning and Multivariate Statistical Analysis’. The aim of the project was to develop a rapid, economical and sensitive diagnostic method that uses ATR-FTIR spectroscopy and UV-Vis spectroscopy for detection of disease biomarkers combined with machine learning and multivariate data analysis. Our senior project was qualified to support by TUBITAK 2209 / A program. In this project, we are trying to solve prolonged diagnosis processes, reduce the cost of medical analysis and improve sensitivity and specificity of the tests.

Our Senior Project Group Member Students:

Burçin Dersu AÇIKGÖZ (Our project manager student)
Pelin SAYAR
Mehmet MALLI
Oytun Deniz DÖNMEZ

Our project supervisior lecturer:

Asst. Prof. Günnur GÜLER

29/07/2020

Turkish scientists are working on developing ‘artificial tendon’

Asst. Prof. Burçak Alp, faculty member of Izmir University of Economics, who started to focus her scientific studies on tendon due to an injury she had in her tendon during her doctoral studies in England, plans to develop “artificial tendon” in the next 2 years. After graduating from Department of Food Engineering, Hacettepe University, Asst. Prof. Burçak Alp went to England for PhD education in 1998. Asst. Prof. Alp, who started as a research assistant at Department of Tissue Engineering, University College London, decided to work in this field due to a tendon injury she had. Working with a group of scientists, Asst. Prof. Alp produced collagen from ostrich legs. The scientific team got a patent for that collagen in England during that period. Asst. Prof. Alp, who returned to Turkey in 2014 and started to work at Department of Biomedical Engineering, Izmir University of Economics (IUE), aims to develop artificial tendon with Prof. Murat Bengisu and Asst. Prof. Işınay Ebru Yüzay in 2 years. Asst. Prof. Alp said, "When treating tendon injuries, a piece of tendon from a healthy tissue is transferred into the injured part. This results in having an extra surgery, stress about surgery, and pain for the patient. There is also no guarantee that the transferred part will work. Therefore, we aim to develop artificial tendon in a lab setting in 2 years.” Asst. Prof. Alp stated that their goal was to combine the collagen they produced with the 3D bioprint technology thus creating the material that would form the basis of the tendon in a lab setting and produce an artificial tendon with the addition of the cells. He said that he taught her students about 3D bioprint method, and they planned to obtain tendon alike material after a 2-year study.

"Our study is very comprehensive"

Stating that she wants to continue the study that she started in England, in Turkey as well, Asst. Prof. Alp said, "This study is very comprehensive. I always planned about coming back to Turkey. In fact, there are many scientists who would want to come back to Turkey when given the appropriate opportunities.” Prof. Murat Bengisu, who provides support to Asst. Prof. Alp, indicated that they plan to obtain tendon from collagen via bio printing method. Prof. Bengisu stated that scientists had been working on 3D bioprint systems for a long time. "The upside of this method is being able to obtain a structure just as in the nature, starting from a small structure to increasingly growing one. Printing with cells started now. This is what we are working on,” said Prof. Murat Bengisu.

29/07/2020

‘Protein’ project by IUE academic

International research project of Asst. Prof. Günnur Güler from Department of Biomedical Engineering, Izmir University of Economics (IUE), on “proteins”, which are being used in wide variety of areas, including making of vaccines and medicines, and cell studies, has been accepted by TUBITAK (Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey). Asst. Prof. Güler, who indicated that the changes in the structure of protein would be analyzed thoroughly as part of the 720 thousand TL budgeted project, said, “This study would be as a kind of guiding light for the world of science.”

Asst. Prof. Günnur Güler, who received her Ph.D. from the Institute of Biophysics Frankfurt Goethe-University in Germany, will be carrying out the project she has been working on for quite some time with Dr. Mikhail Vorobiev from the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS). Series of workshops will be held in Turkey and Russia as part of the project that is planned to be completed in three years. Changes that occur over time in the protein structure, which lay the foundation for many studies on humans, will be analyzed in details. The project of Asst. Prof. Güler, who has participated in many studies abroad so far, will shed light on many scientific studies, including biotechnological practices in particular.

“WE WILL IDENTIFY ALL THE PROCESSES”

Asst. Prof. Günnur Güler gave the following information about the project: “Today, the proteins lay the foundation for many scientific studies. Making of vaccines and medicines, cell studies and biological implementations are some of the areas the proteins are used for. All of the biological structures in our body have a dynamic, a motion. Proteins also have a motion, a vibration in their own way, and interaction with other proteins. We will be analyzing these motions via experimental, biophysical, and mathematical methods in our study. We will be identifying all the change processes regarding the proteins.”

“IT WILL BE A FIRST IN TURKEY”

Asst. Prof. Güler continued as: “We will be conducting our research at the hi-tech labs at IUE. We will be in contact with Mikhail Vorobiev from Russia all the time. He will be supporting this project with studies in his country. There hasn’t been a similar study conducted in Turkey before. Therefore, we care about this project very much. For example, a pharmaceutical company which wants to improve an existing medicine, will shape their studies by reviewing our study. I can say that our study will be as a guiding light in that sense.”

29/07/2020

They Developed Self-Cleaning Masks For Healthcare Professionals

Dr. Osman Doluca, who worked as a Faculty Lecturer at the same faculty with Dean of Faculty of Engineering, Izmir University of Economics, Prof. Dr. Yasar Güneri Sahin, started to develop masks 2 months ago for the healthcare workers to fight the Covid-19 outbreak in the first phase.

Considering that healthcare professionals work long hours in hospitals and especially intensive care units, Sahin and Doluca continued to work on a self-cleaning mask that can be used without removing it for longer periods of time.

The mask, which is developed using the "polylactic acid" material and weighs about 80 grams, is produced with a 3D printer, while sterilization of the filters is provided by slightly larger ultraviolet leds than lentils placed in the double air duct.

Ultraviolet LEDs, which are activated every 30 minutes in the developed mask, kills 99 percent of viruses and bacteria accumulated in the filters in 29 seconds.

Professor Dr. Yasar Güneri Sahin, in a statement to AA correspondent, said that as scientists, they have developed such a mask to support healthcare workers fighting against the Covid-19 pandemic.

Stating that they create two air channels in their masks for the healthcare workers to breathe comfortably, Sahin stated, "In our researches, we have determined that ultraviolet LEDs are not used in any mask. We used very small size ultraviolet LEDs in the mask we developed. The ultraviolet LEDs are activated for 30 seconds in every 30 minutes, neutralizing live viruses and bacteria accumulated in the filters. "

Şahin stated that thanks to the self-cleaning mask they developed, they reduced their filter replacement costs and prevented contamination that may occur during filter replacement.

"Can be used without removing"

Explaining that the health personnel who tried the mask they developed were satisfied, Sahin said:

"Since it has a double air duct, health workers who work for a long time can breathe easily. Thanks to the 6-volt batteries with a life span of about 15 days, healthcare workers can use this mask without removing it for 24 hours. We applied to the Patent Authority of Turkey to get the design protection.

The system we developed also has the feature that can be applied on many masks.In other countries, this work began in the past months and they offered a few products, but no fully usable product has emerged yet."

29/07/2020

Providing an environment in which Izmir University of Economics Biomedical Engineering and its sub-discipline students can improve themselves, including academic, in-school and out-of-school, and at the same time, it offers a chance to interact with experts from their fields, even if they graduate, and is a scientifically innovative pursues the purpose of creating a platform.The club was established on 06/03/2020 and has a total of 92 registered members. BMECO Board of Directors consists of 10 people and 11 people are present in the General Assembly. There are certain sub-boards in the club: Media Board, Foreign Relations Board, Member Affairs Board, Education and Seminar Board, Financial Affairs Board and Audit Board. Although the club was newly established, it played an active role especially during this pandemic period. The club has organized 5 different conferences / seminars so far, including the Pandemic process. The first one of them is realized with Prof. Dr. Aydin AKAN who is the consultant of the IUE Biomedical Engineering Student Club and also the Head of the Biomedical Engineering Department. The second one is realized with Associate Professor Dr. Devrim UNAY who is the previous Head of the Biomedical Engineering Department. The third one is realized with Associate Professor Dr. Burcak ALP of the Biomedical Engineering Department. In the fourth conference, mostly career-oriented topics were covered and Biomedical Engineer Sule BASARSLAN was invited. In the last conference, Associate Professor Dr.Yildiz ULUDAG has been as a guest who broke new ground in the world. At the same time, new and informative projects continue to be produced.