The Industrial Engineering Project Fair and Competition took place at Bilkent on Friday, May 2, with the participation of 13 companies and 16 Senior Student Projects. The ASELSAN project, the ORS Production Planning and Charting project, the SPEED Market Share and Profit Margin Increase project, the MAN Project and the REAL Isle Settlement and Arrangement project made it to the finals for presentations.
The fourth year students in IE are required to develop an implementable project in cooperation with corporate sponsors. These projects introduce students to the issues faced by the Turkish Industrial sector. The fair, organized by Prof. İhsan Sabuncuoğlu and Dr. Bahar Yetiş Kara, included presentations of projects as well as a concert and a reception. A jury of 5 private sector representatives and academics chose as the winner of the contest Group G-TEN with their project “Simulative Scheduling”.
The group consisted of Burakhan Yalçın, N. Barış Nurlu, Utku Koç, Alper Karaduman, M. Alper Çorakçı and Sezin Aydın. According to the group: “Our project was to develop and implement a decision support system which controls the feasibility of periodic production plans and presents the results by means of graphics and reports of job schedules.” The members of G-Ten added that they have been working on the project for 7 months and are planning to continue developing it as a software package after graduation.