The 5th International Conference on Materials and Engineering Technologies was held with great participation at the KTÜ Osman Turan Culture and Congress Centre, in cooperation with Gaziantep University (GAÜN), Hasan Kalyoncu University (HKU) and Karadeniz Technical University (KTÜ).
The opening ceremony of the conference was attended by KTÜ Rector Prof. Dr. Hamdullah Çuvalcı, HKU’s Prof. Dr. Türkay Dereli and Trabzon Ortahisar Mayor Atty. Ahmet Metin Genç, as well as academics, business people, researchers and students.
KTÜ Rector Prof. Dr. Hamdullah Çuvalcı said: “We are delighted to host the conference. The foundation of all innovative work rests on materials science, and I find it important that this conference focuses on materials and engineering technologies, in view of present and future technological developments.”
HKU Rector Prof. Türkay Dereli said: “As HKU, we focus on innovative technologies and support scientific events on these subjects. Materials Science and Technologies is one of them. The International Conference on Materials and Engineering Technologies is a successful conference in its field, where current and future technologies are shared and discussed, and it makes a great contribution to science. I thank everyone who contributed, the organising committee, our stakeholders and all participants.”
Ortahisar Mayor Ahmet Metin Genç said: “I am very happy that such an important event is being held in Trabzon. It is an honour for us that a university that keeps alive the name of the late Hasan Kalyoncu, who was himself originally from Trabzon, takes part here in Trabzon in a conference that leads the way in science.”
Prof. Dr. Necip Fazıl YILMAZ, a faculty member of the GAÜN Department of Mechanical Engineering and Chair of the conference, said in his opening speech: “This year we organised our conference in Trabzon in partnership with GAÜN, HKU and KTÜ. A total of 159 papers were submitted from Türkiye, Qatar, the UAE, Jordan, Palestine, Algeria, Malaysia, Serbia, Belgium and France, and following peer review it was decided that 140 of them would be presented. At our conference, alongside current scientific work in materials and engineering technologies, very important knowledge will be shared on critical topics such as sustainability, energy and cyber security, which are among the most important issues of our day.”
