Gebze Technical University (GTU)

Gebze Technical University (GTU) has a fairly new undergraduate institution with an over 20 year experience in graduate studies as an institute of technology. Undergraduate student number is over 1300 and there is around 1500 master and 600 PhD students.

It has around 500 academic staff, 4 faculties, over 40 reach laboratories and 4 research and application centers.

• Prof. M. Hakan Hocaoglu - Experience on electrical distribution systems, grid integration of renewable resources, demand side management
• Dr. Tuba Gozel - Experienced in the distribution systems, power system and data analysis
• Assoc. Prof. Ilyas Kandemir - Experience in Molecular Dynamics, Compressible Fluid Mechanics, Aerodynamics, Renewable Energy, Internet Technologies
• Mr. Alpaslan Gozel - System administrator, CISCO instructor
• Prof. Dr. Alep Er Ş. Konukman - Experience in thermo economics , energy economics, modal analysis, retrofitting and optimization of energy systems
• Mr. Ahmet Koksoy - Experienced in design and implementation of measurements systems
• Mr. Onur Ozturk - Experienced in programming of the power system analysis and also control and monitoring of PV system
• Ms. A. Aybike Seker - Experienced in optimization algorithms and distribution systems
• Mr. M. Turker Takci - Experienced in harmonic source detection methods, sharing harmonic responsibility, power factor correction

Fully equipped offices and laboratories offers suitable environment for all staff to do research. Computers, telephones, photocopiers, networks are available.

All facilities and resources of university is accessible for any related research activity.

Gebze Technical University has its own campus, research laboratories and premises. It is wholly independent from other beneficiaries and partner organizations in the consortium.

• AMBIO (NMP4-CT-2005-011827, 2005–2010)
• Fuel Cell Stack Assembly and Diagnostics (FP7-IRG Grant No:PIRG01-GA-2007-201711, 2008-2012)
• Climate Induced Changes on the Hydrology of Mediterranean Basins (2010-2014)

• Investigation of Ferromagnetism in Ge-Based Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors (FP7-PEOPLE  276973, 2011-2016)

• Balci, M. E., Hocaoglu, M. H.: “A Current Decomposition- Based Method for Computational Efficient Implementation of Power Resolutions Meters in Nonsinusoidal Single-Phase Systems”, Metrology and Measurement Systems, Vol.XXI, No.2, pp. 263-274, (2013)
• Karacasu, O., Hocaoglu, M. H.: “An Adaline Based Arcing Fault Detection Algorithm for Single-Pole Autoreclosers”, Electric Power Systems Research, Vol. 81 (2011), Iss. 2, pp.367-376
• Gözel, T., Hocaoglu, M. H.: “An Analytical Method for the Sizing and Siting of Distributed Generators in Radial Systems”, Electric Power Systems Research 79 (6), (2009) pp. 912-918
• Gözel, T., Eminoglu, U., Hocaoglu, M. H.: “A Tool for Voltage Stability & Optimization (VS&OP) in Radial Distribution Systems Using Matlab Graphical User Interface (GUI)”, Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory, 16/5 (2008) pp. 505-518
• Yilmaz, P., Hocaoglu, M. H., Konukman, A. E. S.: “A Pre-feasibility Case Study on Integrated Resource Planning Including Renewables”, Energy Policy 36/3 (2008) pp. 1223-1232