Yaşar University

About: Yaşar University is a education organization based out in Izmir, Turkey. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Exergy & Job shop scheduling. The organization has 760 authors who have published 1436 publications receiving 20813 citations. The organization is also known as: Yaşar Üniversitesi.

Basic design education parameters in turkey

Abstract: ness must be reduced into as much concreteness as possible to allow it to be controlled and dealt with. Many disciplines, under which design education is received, put effort into managing the process properly and improving it. Among many design disciplines interior architecture has been taking its place in educational institutions recent year at an increasing pace-especially the foundation universities of Turkey are providing an education with their quotas fulfilled intensively. Interior architecture education program aims to train individuals with the ability of creating innovative, dynamic, and original designs capable of more functional, wiser and aesthetical solutions for interior spaces. Began to blossom in the 19th century, the education was adopted as a teaching program in the 20thcentury thanks to the Bauhaus philosophy. The goal of the interior architecture design is not only to provide students with information but also teach them how to get to knowledge and how they can develop themselves. Among the primary goals of the design education are to make students begin to embrace such an understanding in their first year of education and to take advantage of the educational process to the highest possible extent. What is expected at the end of this one year educational process is to have had a beneficial design process rather than a good quality of product. Although this design education in the first year is named differently under various faculties, it is generally called “basic design education”. Basic design course given in the basic design education intends to increase the readiness level of students up to a certain point, help them recognize their personal traits, and oversee their judgements and get rid of their prejudices (Seylan, 2005). 1. The Goals of Basic Design Education and the Relation with Bauhaus Philosophy The basic design education is something more than a primarily art education. Because of this, from the first day on it is a tool for students to develop a base for understanding art first and creating artistic products. Here the goal is to make connections on the surface or in the space, between the ingredients – the material - and the thoughts and feelings by means of theories based on general perception (rhythm, direction, ratio, balance, etc.) (Gokaydin, 2002). Basic design education ought to be evaluated as an experimental process. The goal of the process is to gain the ability to reflect the products of perception and thought. Thus the more experiments-studies, the more and better the perceptions and expressions will be. The success to be gained here is parallel to the theoretical aesthetics education the student receives. Basic design education is the first step of the design education for design disciplines. The philosophy of education here needs a system which will define the theoretical and practical phases of the education. This system must be simple and have a perception oriented formula. The first school on art has founded in France in 1671 with the name of French Kingdom Academy. After the closure of this school in 1793, Ecole Des Beaux Arts has opened. Mentor system is valuable for this education program. Two dimensional and symmetric design approach is dominant. Also, it is known that studio system is planned to enhance communication between instructor and student. As a response to Beaux Arts, Bauhaus is revealed in Germany in 1919. Different from Beaux Arts, students are far from all the conditionings; creativeness, imagination and individual expression opportunity are supported by instructors (Ketizmen, 2002). Since the first half of 20th century, Gestalt theory took a part in design education and changed especially basic design education. In this theory perception is fundamental issue. Therefore, pureness and easiness is a must for perception in one of the rules of Gestalt called Pragnanz rule. With the help of Gestaltian approach, basic design education had to transform into intelligable and inclusive form. Cognitive processes are valuable than behavioral processes. Especially after the second world war, a different view reveals stating that designers must take a part in social and economical issues much more than in past. And a new education program Ulm, has founded in 1947 in Germany. Beaux Arts is a role model for this new program (Ozalp, 2006). As seen, different education programmes are come up till today. Among these programmes, in Bauhaus, basic design is firstly accepted as a course in design education program. Besides being the birth of interior architecture education, Bauhaus is the period when the basic design creed/teaching was discovered. According to this teaching, all design based disciplines (industrial design, architecture, interior architecture, sculpting, painting, etc.) need a thorough educational experience in “basic design concepts-their relations” both theoretically and practically. For Bauhaus, calling for an inter occupational study, these experiences should be accumulated in a common pool belonging the all of the disciplines. Aiming to receive education in design and stepping on to the basic design studio, the student faces a different kind of education system when compared with the previous terms. Previously, in a theoretical education system the students learned the information through memorising. This information whose truthiness was not questioned by the students could later involve in the process of design either positively or negatively. According to the teachings of Bauhaus, preconceived opinions feature a resistance against the new and different while according to the positivist approaches originated in later years conventions and knowledge over years shed light on design and constitute a creative design foresight (Ertek, 1999). Both of these approaches have some point. Nevertheless, it must be remembered that basic design education is, in a sense, the pre-school of the design education. In this school, students ought to be taught that they must realize themselves, they have ideas, and these ideas can be supported by others as well as they might be objected. The main purpose is provide them with an education system appropriate for their own skills, and in which they can stand out, as Denel states it all by saying “after we base our education system on a principle that gives credit to obedient persons whom can be developed in a multi-faceted way and destroys those resisting, not literally but their ideas, we try to reteach the troubled ones what we have been unteaching for years.” Another goal of this education is to maintain it as workshop training in studios. In this way, the student will think more creatively and productively, will be able to come up with alternatives, and will be provided with an infrastructure in order for him to develop a different system of thinking. By means of workshops that are organised for a defined time in studios, students can scan sources about the subject, can make observation, can make new collaborations in groups. These groups can be conducted with small or large groups depending on the context and process of the workshop. In small group workshops, each member take in charge more, and the group can be controlled easily. Conversely, workshop groups which are broad in subject, groups have more members and if it is possible to work effectively, can have result with much more alternative and improved projects. Besides short-time workshops, studio places must be designed in proper way for increasing students’ productivity and relaxing for whole of the semester. Therefore, any wall or boundry in non- pysical way should not be placed between students and teachers, they must have a strong communication for any moment in studio time

Supporting Healthcare Executive Managers’ Decisions Through Dashboards

Abstract: Information visualisation plays an important role for executives in order to drive business effectively and efficiently. Dashboard design, which is one of the best tools of visualization to meet the information needs at adequate levels, is becoming more important parallel to advances in information processing technologies. This study aims to provide a conceptual framework for developing a dashboard for executives. Healthcare management was chosen to demonstrate the methodology of research design, data gathering and visualisation examples. Results show that the study is applicable to other areas as well to meet the information requirements of top and mid-level managers.

Türkiye Sinemasında Aklın Sınırlarını Belirlemek: Çıplak Vatandaş ve Gişe Memuru Filmlerinde Delilik Temsilleri

Abstract: Defining the Boundaries of Reason in Turkish Cinema: Representation of Madness in Ciplak Vatandas and Gise MemuruWho is the mad? Who is the reasonable? Is it possible to define the boundaries of reason by definition of madness? According to Michel Foucault, the reason can only define itself by the opposition of madness. In this point, it is crucial to understand the binary opposition of mad and reason and their social meanings. The aim of this study is to understand the representation of “madness” in cinema as a sphere where the meaning is reproduced by representations. In order to achieve this goal, representation of madness in two Turkish films as Ciplak Vatandas (1985) and Gise Memuru (2010) has been analyzed. It can be concluded that in two selected films, being reasonable has been identified with nonresistance, acceptance, coping with the all negative conditions of modern life and “being mad” has been identified with resistance and difference.

A Multi-Objective Solution of Green Vehicle Routing Problem

Abstract: Abstract Distribution is one of the major sources of carbon emissions and this issue has been addressed by Green Vehicle Routing Problem (GVRP). This problem aims to fulfill the demand of a set of customers using a homogeneous fleet of Alternative Fuel Vehicles (AFV) originating from a single depot. The problem also includes a set of Alternative Fuel Stations (AFS) that can serve the AFVs. Since AFVs started to operate very recently, Alternative Fuel Stations servicing them are very few. Therefore, the driving span of the AFVs is very limited. This makes the routing decisions of AFVs more difficult. In this study, we formulated a multi-objective optimization model of Green Vehicle Routing Problem with two conflicting objective functions. While the first objective of our GVRP formulation aims to minimize total CO2 emission, which is proportional to the distance, the second aims to minimize the maximum traveling time of all routes. To solve this multi-objective problem, we used ɛ-constraint method, a multi-objective optimization technique, and found the Pareto optimal solutions. The problem is formulated as a Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) model in IBM OPL CPLEX. To test our proposed method, we generated two hypothetical but realistic distribution cases in Izmir, Turkey. The first case study focuses on an inner-city distribution in Izmir, and the second case study involves a regional distribution in the Aegean Region of Turkey. We presented the Pareto optimal solutions and showed that there is a tradeoff between the maximum distribution time and carbon emissions. The results showed that routes become shorter, the number of generated routes (and therefore, vehicles) increases and vehicles visit a lower number of fuel stations as the maximum traveling time decreases. We also showed that as maximum traveling time decreases, the solution time significantly decreases.