Newton-Kâtip Çelebi Fund Bilateral Cooperation Project

by Janset Öztemur | May 28, 2021
The project that belongs to Assoc. Prof. Dr. İkilem Göcek was deemed worthy of support.

The project titled "Capacity Building & Training to Develop Textile Based Electronic Skin to Enable Human Robot Interaction for The Assistance of Older-Adults in Turkey & The Economic Growth of the Turkish Textile Sector", coordinated by Assoc. Prof. Dr. İkilem Göcek, was supported by the Newton-Katip Çelebi Fund.

Within the scope of the project carried out with Coventry University from England, it is aimed to design "friendly" robots that will facilitate the lives of elderly individuals by making textile surfaces conductive and integrating them with robots.

Kadıköy Municipality is among the supporters of the project.

Click here for the news of the Kadıköy newspaper about the project.

Project team
Assoc. Prof. İkilem Göcek - Coordinator
Prof. Dr. Cevza Candan - Researcher
Prof. Dr. Burçak Karagüzel Kayaoğlu - Researcher
Lecturer Rüveyde Oder - Researcher
Beste Aktürk (Graduate Student) – Researcher

İTÜ Faculty of Textile Technologies and Design

Textile Engineering Department of Istanbul Technical University (İTÜ) is the first and the single one offering textile engineering education in Istanbul, and also comes first among the top textile engineering schools in Turkey. Its history could be traced back to 1955; the year in which the textile division was established in the body of Mechanical Engineering. The school gained its current name and independent status in 1983. Therefore, it is obvious that the Textile Engineering Department is fairly new compared to the history of İTÜ stretching back to 240 years.

abet

ITU Textile Engineering Undergraduate Program is an accredited program by ABET Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC), www.abet.org, (Criteria: General Criteria Only (EAC)). For further information on accrediation of ITU Textile Engineering Undergraduate Program, please visit the following link: https://tekstil.itu.edu.tr/en/education/accreditation/abet