Nihat Altıntaş, a fourth year student in the Department of Industrial Engineering, took top honors at the International Symposium of Industrial Engineering Students 2000, held at Üstanbul Technical University between March 8 and 11. The symposium featured a project competition among Industrial Engineering students from several universities.

Nihat Altıntaş won first place with his project, "Optimum Buffer Allocation in Serial Production Lines," which developed new techniques for simulation analysis of serial production lines. His project was chosen from a total of 29 projects submitted by students from 22 universities. It was completed as part of the IE 490 course supervised by Dr. İhsan Sabuncuoğlu and Dr. Erdal Erel.

The organization of participants and the representation of Bilkent industrial engineering students at SIES was undertaken by the OR Club. With the assistance of the club, nine students submitting three projects and two presentations were sent to the symposium. If you are interested in joining the recreation sub-committee of the OR Club, e-mail ork@ug.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr for further information.