METU Central Laboratory has been audited by the Turkish Accreditation Agency (TÜRKAK). Upon the completion of this audit, several characterization and measurement techniques, covering various fields of science and engineering, have been recognized by an accrediation certificate. This is an internationally recognized certificate which certifies the results as internationally acceptable.

METU Central Laboratory is a research, education and characterization center,  equipped with the latest test and analysis equipment and supports researchers in the academia, private and government sectors by a team of trained professionals who are experts in their respective analysis tools and techniques. It is the first university central laboratory, with capabilities in both material characterization and biotechnology fields,  that has been granted the internationally recognized TS EN ISO/IEC 17025 “General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories” accrediation certificate in Turkey. Through its wide spectrum of capabilities, METU Central Lab services research activities for a wide range of fields including but not limited to advanced materials, nanotechnology, energy technologies, medicine, agriculture and archeology as well as multiple industrial sectors such as defence, textile, automotive and food. 

Üniversitemizin tanıtım çalışmaları kapsamında düzenlenecek olan  “2014 ODTÜ Tanıtım Günleri” etkinliğinin yanı sıra üniversitemiz ve bölümlerini ziyaret edecek olan aday öğrenciler ve aileleri için 7-11 Temmuz 2014 tarihleri arasında bölümlerimizde Bölüm Tanıtımları yapılacaktır. Aday öğrencilerin tercih edecekleri bölümleri yakından tanımalarını sağlamayı amaçlayan bu etkinlik aynı zamanda öğrencilerin meslek, kariyer, eğitim ve bilim ile ilgili sorularını yanıtlamayı hedeflemektedir.

THE OPPORTUNITY OF SETTING UP A BUSINESS FOR METU STUDENTS AND GRADUATES!

New Ideas New Businesses 2014 have been started...

The 2014 registration period of Turkey’s greatest and leading entrepreneurship contest, organized by METU and ODTÜ Teknokent for 10 years, ‘New Ideas New Businesses’ has been started. ‘New Ideas New Businesses’, aiming to impose entrepreneurship and innovation on rising generation, is organized by adopting METU’s approach of ‘Not an Employed Graduate but an Employer’.

New Ideas New Businesses provides a backdrop for students and graduates who have innovative and technology based business ideas and support them to implement their ideas and to become a successful businessman.

All students or graduates (not more than 5 years from their graduations) of Bachelors/MS/PHD degrees at any university and any department may join the contest.

Contestants compete with each other in order to win the following monetary rewards…

ELGINKAN FOUNDATION Grand Award	100.000 TL
UNDERSECRETARIAT for DEFENCE INDUSTRY Grand Award	100.000 TL
GENERAL ELECTRIC Grand Awards	200.000 TL
IT CATEGORY Grand Award	100.000 TL
GENERAL ELECTRIC Special Awards	50.000 TL
ARÇELİK Special Award	25.000 TL
ASELSAN Special Award	25.000 TL
MICROSOFT Special Award	25.000 TL
OSTIM Special Award	25.000 TL
TEB Special Award	25.000 TL

Besides the direct monetary rewards, there are many other supports for contestants...

• Office Space in Incubation Center
• Entrepreneurial Training Program
• Mentors
• Consultancy Services
• Investor Meetings
• Network Support
• Intellectual Property Rights Support

‘New Ideas New Businesses’ contest, offers 2 Million TL worth support in total.

Applications can be made via www.yfyi.com until 28^th of April, 2014…