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IUE Faculty of Fine Arts and Design (FFAD) organized a technical trip to Bodrum İçmeler Region Shipyards, Maritime Museum, and Marina under the supervision of Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ö. Osman Demirbaş, Asst. Prof. Dr. M. Emre Ergül, Asst. Prof. Dr. A. Can Özcan and Asst. Prof. Dr. Markus Wilsing.

Energy policies have been discussed at Izmir University of Economics (IUE). It has been reported at the “6^th Energy Management and Policies Workshop”’, organized by IUE Department of Sustainable Energy, that Turkey has spent energy equivalent to 130 million tons of petroleum in 2016, and fossil fuels made up 86% of this. It has been pointed out in the workshop that Turkey needed to have a sustainable and predictable energy market structure.

Izmir University of Economics will be steering energy policy of European Union. Department of Sustainable Energy of Izmir University of Economics will be participating in the establishment process of Europe’s Energy Union along with Norway, Austria, Spain, Germany, Finland, and Bulgaria as part of Horizon 2020 program in which R&D and innovation projects are funded by the European Union.

Yu Hongyang, Ambassador of the People's Republic of China to Ankara, who was a keynote speaker at the 5^th Energy Management and Policies Workshop organized by Izmir University of Economics (IUE), Department of Sustainable Energy, said that energy was the focal point of Turkish-Chinese relations. Hongyang reported that China’s foreign dependency on oil reached to 60.0% in 2015, and therefore they would establish a new approach about energy security, and they tended towards renewable energy.   

The boats designed by Izmir University of Economics (IUE) with a slogan “2 yaka 5 dakika (2 shores in 5 minutes)”, will begin Istanbul Bosporus marine transportation in May. Interior designs of 14 double ended boats by IUE EKOTAM Design Research and Application Center for Dentur Avrasya are almost complete. The first boat will carry the passengers comfortably between Usküdar – Beşiktaş in 5 minutes. 

Lecturers of Izmir University of Economics (IUE) Department of Mathematics will be studying the features of a new module in invariant theory with a TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) Project they developed. Asst. Prof. Dr. Uğur Madran and his Ph.D. student Deniz Erdemirci Erkuş prepared a project in order to develop a larger model that will include special cases not covered by the theory, and will bring a different point of view to the theory which will ease the coding theory used in wireless communication. The study, which is granted 61 thousand Turkish Liras by Mathematics, Physics Research Support Group within TUBITAK, will last for 18 months.