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A rapid assessment following the 23 April 2025 Mw6.2 Silivri Earthquake nearby İstanbul

ITU Faculty of Mines experts provide rapid assessment following Mw6.2 Silivri Earthquake nearby İstanbul metropolitan area.

Graduation Design Projects supported by TÜBİTAK

18 Student Projects from the Faculty of Mines awarded TÜBİTAK 2209-A Grant.

Ancient Oceanic Remnants Discovered Beneath Anatolia

Recent findings from our Seismology-Seismotectonic-Geodynmaics research group introduces new data on Ancient Oceanic Remnants Discovered Beneath Anatolia.

March 8th International Women's Day

Women’s Pioneering Role in Mining and Geosciences Celebrated at ITU on International Women’s Day

Our Academicians in ITU Academic Performance 2025 Awards Event

Our faculty members and research assistants were on stage in ITU Academic Performance 2025 Awards Event

The Petrology and Geochronology of the Nelson Island Magmatism (NW Antarctica)

A new research effort from the Department of Geological Engineering, primarily taken over by Assist. Prof. Dr. Alp Ünal aims to investigate the nature, origin, and spatiotemporal evolution of arc magmatism in the Western Antarctic Peninsula through a combination of field observations and advanced laboratory analyses.

YER 2025 Symposium

The YER2025 symposium took place on 24 June 2025. During this event, our senior undergraduate students presented the outcomes of their graduate projects, which they had conducted under the supervision of their thesis advisors, to a wide audience.

34st ITU Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering Seminar and Exhibition

The Department of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering at Istanbul Technical University marked another milestone this year with the 34th edition of its traditional Petroleum and Natural Gas Exhibition, a long-standing platform where students present innovative projects, research findings, and industry-relevant solutions.

ITU Faculty of Mines Recognized Among the World’s Best in QS Subject Rankings

The Faculty of Mines at Istanbul Technical University (İTU) continues to reinforce its reputation as a global center of excellence in engineering and earth sciences. According to the 2025 QS World University Rankings by Subject, İTÜ’s engineering disciplines,particularly those under the Faculty of Mines, have achieved exceptional positions among the top institutions worldwide.

34th Petroleum and Natural Gas Seminar & Exhibition

34th ITU Petroleum and Natural Gas Seminar and Exhibition will be held on 26-27 June 2025 at ITU Maçka Campus Mustafa Kemal Amphitheatre.

Mining Awareness Seminar for Students in Şile by ITU Faculty of Mining Engineering

As the ITU Faculty of Mining Engineering, we took part in the event titled "Promoting a Love for Mining", held at Necda Moralıgil Primary and Secondary School in Sofular Village, Şile. The event was attended by Şile District Director of National Education Mr. Dursun Teyram, SERHAM President Mr. Adnan Geredeli, regional school principals, local sand and clay industry representatives, and our department heads. During this meaningful gathering, we engaged with students to inform them about the importance of mining, Turkey’s underground resources, and environmentally responsible mining practices.

Concentration of Different Iron Ores

Within the framework of Industry – Academy collaboration, Prof. Dr. Murat Olgaç Kangal, Prof. Dr. Alim Gül, research assistants Zeynep Üçerler, and Oğuzhan Mert Gürkan from the Department of Mineral Processing Engineering and Allmineral Aufbereitungstechnik GMBH & CO. KG A2O Mineral Technologies Industry and Trade Limited Company has been conducting various tests on iron concentration.

Stable Physics-Related Earthquake Magnitude Estimates For Marmara Sea Earthquakes

Reliable estimates of the moment magnitude of earthquakes as representative of the earthquake source energy are vital for an understanding of seismic hazard in regions prone to tectonic activity. To address this demand, our researchers Berkan Özkan, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tuna Eken and Prof. Dr. Tuncay Taymaz have tested a method involving coda wave modelling moment magnitudes estimates of earthquakes in the Sea of Marmara, northwestern Türkiye.

Other News from Our Academicians

Our faculty members actively participated in various scientific events, projects and awarded research grants in 2024.

Book Launch and Symposium Titled “Lithium-Ion Batteries in Electric Vehicles”

Members of Mineral Processing Engineering Department participated in a book launch and symposium titled “Lithium Ion Batteries in Electric Vehicles” that was organized by Automotive Technologies Platform (OTEP).

New Properties Of the Deformed Crust Across the North Anatolian Fault Zone (NAFZ)

The North Anatolian Fault Zone (NAFZ), is a tectonic structure that's really important because of the active deformation it causes in Türkiye. If we can understand how the directional dependence of seismic waves also known seismic anisotropy in the crust and mantle along this nascent shear deformation zone works, we can learn a lot about the kinematics of past and present tectonic events. Research Assistant Derya Keleş, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tuna Eken, and Prof. Dr. Tuncay Taymaz from the Department of Geophysical Engineering could map seismic anisotropy variation in an area covering northwest segment of the NAFZ.

Faculty Seminar Series

In 2024, particularly our early career researchers and engineers from the Departments of Mining, Geological, Petroleum and Natural Gas, Geophysical, and Mineral Processing Engineering, as well as researchers and engineers from all around the world, presented findings from their completed and ongoing works during the weekly organized online faculty seminars.

Editorship

Our faculty member from the Department of Geophysical Engineering has been invited to the Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors Journal.

A New Geophysical Fieldwork Experiment Aims at Elucidating the Depth Extent of Faults Responsible For the 2023 Kahramanmaraş Earthquakes

Assist. Prof. Dr. Ümit Avşar leads a team of researchers from ITU, Afyon Kocatepe, and Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa within the framework of a TÜBİTAK-CAS project, collecting magnetotelluric data to study fault dynamics related to the 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquakes.

Career-Long Impact Scientists From Our Faculty

Elsevier and Stanford University's annual list of the world's most influential scientists has been announced. 11 valuable professors from the Faculty of Mines in the "Annual impact" category and 11 in the "Career-long impact" category were included in the list.

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