Electrical Engineering Club

Current power grids are designed over 100 years ago for 20th century. These grids are designed for limited power demands, a network that transfers electricity from power plants to our homes, consisting power lines and transformer centers. This limited one-way interaction roughly responds to the ever-changing demands of 21st century. Integrating these grids - which are far behind of today’s needs- with the computer and network technology we have today, we form a new type of grid as we know by the name “Smart Grid”.
As Istanbul Technical University Electrical Engineering Society, we bring academicians, leading names in the field, investors, industrialists and students from all around the world together with our Smart Grid event.
In this event we observe issues such as:
• Smart Grid Components and Technologies
• Transmission and Distribution Infrastructure
• The integration of renewable power sources to current system
• Electric Vehicle Infrastructure
• The power investment plans current system needs
• Smart Automation Projects

The subject of electric vehicles has been discussed in detail in our summit, which was the first summit related to electric vehicles in Turkey on 1 December 2016 at ITU Ayazaga Campus made by the ITU Electrical Engineering Society, also this summit contains the prominent of the industry as a speaker. The studies and future expectations about electric cars in Turkey, and the other countries are presented to participants in the EAZ.
At the EAZ, authorities of the leading companies in the industry bring together those who are considering investments in this field, academicians, and university students who are candidate engineers on the same platform.
We can order the main purposes of our summit as follows:
● To construct awareness about electric and hybrid vehicle technologies,
● To create an opportunity to compare the situation in our country and other countries on the topic of electric vehicles,
● To examine the latest situations in the industry, from an academic and sectoral perspective,
● Bringing academicians, investors, students, bureaucrats, and company officials together,
● To increase communication within the sector,
● To stand out to the issue of efficient usage of energy resources.

With the increasing demand for the energy, usage of different energy sources has become a must. Instead of the carbon-based energy production; renewable and clean sources like wind, sun, wave and geothermal energy gained importance. As ITU Electrical Engineering Society, we believe that people should learn and understand the advantages of clean energy. For this purpose, we had our first TEG event in 2011. Since then, annually arranged TEG’s popularity and the numbers of its participants are increasing every single year.

TEG is bringing academicians, leading names in the field, investors, industrialists and students together. While investors are having a chance to catch up with the latest developments, students enrich their theorical knowledge with the new developments and the field’s representatives’ wide experiences.

In TEG, a general evaluation is made about energy policies from past to present. The areas where investments are made in line with these policies are also mentioned. The potential of wind energy and solar energy for our country and the world is evaluated and investments in these issues are mentioned as well.

From Sector to Faculty is an interactive Electrical Engineering Club activity that brings together our graduates educated in the Faculty of Electrical and Electronics, working in many sectors and in various fields and our fellow students educating in our faculty in the same environment.

In this environment where our graduates share their experiences, it is aimed that ITU Electrical and Electronics Faculty students benefit experiences of our graduates in order to give a more concious direction to their future and gain various interpretations in the sector.

Istanbul Technical University keep going its education life as one of the most distinguished educational institutions of our country with its history of more than 240 years and its deep-rooted culture from past to present. The greatest inheritors of this culture from the past to the present are undoubtedly the countless many graduates of our university. Our Sektörden Fakülteye activity has the mission of transferring the experiences of our former graduates to the new generations and keeping the deep-rooted ITU culture alive.

1. Eleco 2019 Bursa Trip

We were both an officer and a participant in various conferences for 3 days in our 11th International Electrical - Electronics Engineering Conference. Apart from that, we had the opportunity to visit Bursa and various touristic regions.




2. Ford Otosan Sancaktepe Trip

We have visited Ford Otosan Sancaktepe R&D Center, one of Europe's largest R&D centers. We observed what the engineers were doing, the organizations and departments in the R&D center.



3.  Autonomous Vehicle Systems Seminar – Berzah Ozan (Ford Otosan)

Berzah Ozan, Autonomous Vehicle Systems Expert from Ford Otosan, told us about the autonomous vehicle technologies, which are among today's technologies, during the period when we moved away from the campus.

4. High Voltage Laboratory Trip

We had the opportunity to examine and experience the High Voltage Laboratory, which is one of the most interesting laboratories of our school, in the company of Prof. Dr. Özcan Kalenderli.

5. Fujifilm Street Photography Training

During the one-day street photography training provided by Fujifilm, we learned the tricks of taking pictures by having a pleasant time.




6. Our Traditional Graduate Dinner

We both bring our graduates together at our meals, where we meet with our graduates every year, and we chat with them on many subjects.