IE Students Win First Prize in Turkish Diabetics Foundation Competition

13 November 2017 Comments Off on IE Students Win First Prize in Turkish Diabetics Foundation Competition

Industrial Engineering senior students Yağmur Ezgi Çavuş and Yalçın Arslan recently won a first prize in the “Sen Bul Diyabet Kolaylaşşın” (Find a Solution for Diabetes) competition organized by the Turkish Diabetes Foundation and Sanofi Turkey.

Yağmur and Yalçın’s project, “Tip 2 Diyabet Risk Testi” (Type 2 Diabetes Risk Test), received top honors in the “Institutional Social Awareness” category. The goal of their project is to increase the awareness of diabetes by encouraging greater use of the type 2 diabetes risk test developed by the American Diabetes Association.