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Industrial Engineering Students Win International Honors
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Two senior Industrial Engineering students, Halil Bayrak and Kürşad Astemir, attended the conference, which took place between January 11 and 13 in Grenoble, France, as finalists in ROADEF '99 Challenge, a competition "open to everybody, in particular to young researchers. " The research work was carried out as part of a term project in IE 477 Production Systems-Design, a course taught by Dr. Ömer Benli. Halil represented the team formed by Şükrü Bırakolu, Ercan Sakarya, Ülker Arslan, İnan Açıloğlu, and himself, while Kürşad's team included his classmates‚ Çağrı Gürbüz, Çağrı Haksöz, Osman Karslıoğlu, and Aydın Ünal. There were 13 participants in the contest coming from France, Italy, Turkey, and Brazil. All participants addressed an inventory management problem that involved designing a computer-based system for managing a fleet of equipment and determining when to subcontract work or buy new equipment.
K. Astemir's team won second prize, 2000 French Francs worth of scientific books offered by Le Monde en Tique in conjunction with the French Operations Research Society.
H. Bayrak's team won third Prize, 1000 FF offered by Euro-Decision.
First prize, 5000 FF, went to researchers from Laboratoire de Modelisation et de Calcul - IMAG, Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, France.
Here are the comments members of the Bilkent groups offered on their success:
Kürşad: This is hard work.
Aydın: This is the beginning.
Osman: Prize for the good effort.
Çağrı: Teamwork worked.
İnan: We deserved it.
Halil: Ordinary.
Ülker: Just another success.
Şükrü: It was not a surprise.
Ercan: Something expected.
Both groups expressed their appreciation for help with travel arrangements from Zeynep Köksal, Dean of Students.
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