Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Diğer, ss.18-19, 2024
The Industrial Revolution, which is a part of the revolutionary changes made by mankind; It is possible that the intellectual, scientific,
scientific and academic environment sciences created in Europe by industrialization, developments in transportation and the
Enlightenment experienced as a result of this process have an important place. The effect of the Industrial Revolution on this process
has caused the West to seize economic, social, cultural and political superiority. In the Industrial Revolution, especially steam
engines and the use of steam power were especially important power. Although the use of steam power has a long history , the
invention of engines that convert heat energy in the first steam boilers into mechanical energy took place in the seventh century. The
first working steam engine was invented by the English engineer Thomas Savery and patented in 1698, and the pioneering steam
engine invented by Newcomen later could be used especially in the mining industry, but it was inefficient. Until James Watt -the
inventor of steam engines used in industry-delivered Newcomen's steam engine to her for repair, steam engines did not have the
power to create revolutions either commercially or culturally. When Watt was born, Newcomen machines were pumping water from
mines all over the country. Watt brought this steam engine, which was delivered to him to repair, to a dynamic dimension and the
steam engine became the key to the newly opened era.
Watt began to direct his education by doing small experiments with his grandfather from a young age, influenced by his grandfather's
practical life experiences. He developed himself in mechanics and engineering. In 1755, he found a master to train him and went to
London. After his apprenticeship in mechanics, he returned to Scotland in the country. However, he could not open his own
workshop in Glasgow due to the reaction of the Scottish profession. When the University of Glasgow offered him to establish a
workshop during the period when he could not practice his profession, he continued his work in the garden of the university campus.
Watt, nourished by the academic environment of the university, got together with young engineering candidates, allowing both the
emergence of new ideas and the emergence of new problems for Watt to solve. Watt made the engine, which was previously only
single-stroke, two-stroke and offered steam power, which was too weak to compete with the classical power sources of human and
animal power, to the service of humanity. After this point, the steam engine emerged as a power for everyone in every field of
industry, factories and especially transportation. Many mechanized business lines took part in industrialization with the use of steam
engines.
The development of steam engines, which are the engines of industrialization, was carried out in a university environment. In this
process, steam power, which has a long history, has had a driving force in terms of increasing production and efficiency, breaking
away from labor power and implementing mass production through international trade, and increasing human welfare. The course of
the university in the conditions of its people continues as an example. In this way; As a result of the increase in steam power used for
centuries and the increase in mass production in industry, it has reached growth processes that have not been experienced in human
history at that time and caused an increase in welfare. Of course, the distribution problems brought by industrialization are not
evaluated within the scope of this article, but welfare is evaluated here based on total welfare.
Particularly, in universities, in order to close the "education-innovation gap" that measures the relative closeness of the curriculum to
old and new knowledge, follow and support current developments, allocate significant shares to R&D expenditures, and cover the
recently produced courses with the content of education, the missions have an important effect both in the scientific field and in terms
of increasing the welfare of humanity.