11/07/2025
The senior design project team of Zeynep Ece Abay, Gamze Güçlüer, Doruk Torunoğlu, Enes Erkoç, Emre Can Gök, and Deniz Karataş secured 1st Place in the Senior Design Project Competition at the 6ᵗʰ African International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM 2025) held in Rabat, Morocco.
Their project, titled “Bottleneck Identification and Production Improvement in Manufacturing Systems Using Discrete-Event Simulation,” was carried out under the supervision of Dr. S. Shah Sultan M. Qadri, Department of Industrial Engineering, Çankaya University.
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The senior design project team consisting of Deniz Karataş, Gamze Güçlüer, Zeynep Ece Abay, Doruk Torunoğlu, Emre Can Gök, and Enes Erkoç received 1st Place in the IEOM Senior Design Project Competition at the 6ᵗʰ South American IEOM Conference held in Sorocaba, Brazil.
The awarded project, titled “Integrated Maintenance Planning, Process Quality and Production Scheduling Optimization,” was conducted under the supervision of Dr. S. Shah Sultan M. Qadri from the Department of Industrial Engineering, Çankaya University.
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Mertcan Karakaya, Aybüke Sözer, Canberk Tuğcu, İrem Görmez, and Cihan Kaan Güngördü,undergraduate students from the Department of Industrial Engineering, Çankaya University, achieved 2nd Place in the Undergraduate Research Competition sponsored by Daikin Applied at the 6th South American IEOM Conference (IEOM Brazil 2025) held in Sorocaba, Brazil.
Their project, titled“Optimizing Load Utilization and Routing Efficiency in CVRP: Varying Vehicle Capacity Case in the Automotive Industry Closed-Loop Supply Chain” was conducted under the supervision of Dr. S. Shah Sultan M. Qadri.
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Kıvılcım Naz Böke, a student of the Industrial Engineering Department, presented her study titled “Optimization of Task Scheduling in the Cloud: A Comparative Analysis of Min-Min, Max-Min, AIGA, and ELOA Methods” at the 6th African International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, held in Rabat, Morocco, between April 7–10, 2025.
Her study was awarded third place in the Undergraduate Student Paper Competition, sponsored by Siemens.
The research was conducted under the supervision of Dr. Syed Shah Sultan Mohiuddin Qadri and Dr. Ahmet Kabarcık.
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As part of the Preparatory Class Orientation Program held at our university, we met with our preparatory students who will begin their Industrial Engineering education in the upcoming semester. During the session, the students gained insights into the historical development and significance of the profession, as well as how it differs from other engineering disciplines. They also learned about key aspects of our curriculum. By exploring examples of senior projects completed in previous years, they had the opportunity to envision the level they will reach before graduation and the types of industrial engineering applications they will be capable of undertaking.
11/05/2025
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Kıvılcım Naz Böke, an undergraduate student of the Industrial Engineering Department, presented her study titled “Optimization of Task Scheduling in the Cloud: A Comparative Analysis of Min-Min, Max-Min, AIGA, and ELOA Methods” at the 6th African International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, held in Rabat, Morocco, between April 7–10, 2025.
This study was awarded third place in the Undergraduate Student Paper Competition sponsored by Siemens.
The research was conducted under the supervision of Dr. Syed Shah Sultan Mohiuddin Qadri and Dr. Ahmet Kabarcık.
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“Workshop on Information and Communication Technology: Internet and Social Impact” organized by the Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA) was held on February 8, 2020, at the host of Boğaziçi University. At the Workshop, Engineering Terms Dictionary Introductory Meeting within the scope of the TÜBA Turkish Scientific Terms Dictionary Project conducted by Professor Bülent Sankur from the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department of Boğaziçi University was held, and certificates of appreciation were given to academics who contributed to the preparation of the dictionary. Due to his work on Industrial Engineering terms, a certificate of appreciation to our Department Chair Professor Ferda Can Çetinkaya was given by Professor Necdet Ünüvar, who is a member of the Turkish Republic Presidential Food and Health Policy Committee.
14/01/2020
As part of the Systems' Analysis, Design and Implementation courses in the Industrial Engineering curriculum during which groups of our senior students work on real-life problems in partnership with various companies in Ankara Başkent Organize Sanayi (Başkent OSB) industrial zone, our students presented their work for the IE 407 Systems' Analysis course after final exams end. We congratulate all groups presenting their projects.
20/11/2019
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Asst. Prof. Dr. Benhür Satır presented his research at the INFORMS Annual Meeting in Seattle, Washington that was held in October 20-23, 2019. The INFORMS Annual Meeting is held each fall and it is the largest Operations Research and Analytics conference bringing together more than 5,000 people from all over the world.
25/06/2019
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Orhan Karasakal co-organized an invited session on Hybrid Approaches in MCDM and presented his research, titled “Multiple Criteria Target Classification Using Heterogeneous Sensor Data” at the 25th International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making, İstanbul, Turkey that was held in June 16-21, 2019.
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As part of the Systems' Analysis, Design and Implementation courses in the Industrial Engineering curriculum during which groups of our senior students work on real-life problems in partnership with various companies in Ankara Başkent Organize Sanayi (Başkent OSB) industrial zone, our students presented their work for the IE 407 Systems' Analysis course after final exams end. We congratulate all groups presenting their projects.
05/12/2018
We hosted 102 students and five teachers from one of the well-established schools in Ankara, Özel Arı Okulları, as part of Career Day activities at the university. Asst. Prof. Dr. Nureddin Kırkavak held a question-and-answer session upon a brief introduction of the department and Industrial Engineering as a profession.
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Asst. Prof. Dr. Benhür Satır attended the 2. Transportation and Logistics National Congress held on 22-23 November 2018 at Sakarya University presenting a talk titled "Loading and Routing Optimization System for a Local Market Chain."
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Every year, Operational Research Society of Turkey and a university organize the National Operations Research and Industrial Engineering Congress. This year, the 38th congress was held on June 26th through 29th, 2018 at Anadolu University, Eskişehir, Turkey. Assoc. Prof. Dr. M. Alp Ertem, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Orhan Karasakal and Asst. Prof. Dr. Nureddin Kırkavak presented their talks titled "İstanbul İçi Deniz Taşımacılığı ile İntermodal İnsani Yardım Lojistiği", "PROMETHEE Yontemini Beklenti Teorisi ile Uyumlandıran Bütünleşik bir Yaklaşım," and "Çok Hollü Yerleşim Düzenleme Probleminin Modellenmesi ve Analizi," respectively, at the congress.
29/06/2018
Senior design project of Gizem Uluğ, Asil Kutlu, Deniz Bastak, Ayşe Uzunöz and Cihan Tatar was selected into the final eight teams from among 68 different competing projects in the 38th Operations Research & Industrial Engineering National Congress held in Anadolu University, Eskişehir. We congratulate our students who successfully presented their project at the finals and their project advisor Assoc. Prof. Dr. M. Alp Ertem.
29/06/2018
We held an information session to representatives of several firms located in the Başkent Organized Industrial Zone, to introduce our department and to give details about the senior projects.
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23/02/2018
TAI recently gave start to "Intern Engineer Program," that aims to accelerate the aeronautical projects carried out by increasing their engineers' productivity. TAI signed the collaboration protocol concerning the internship program with 16 selected universities including Çankaya University that will provide successful engineering students with internship opportunities. Our undergraduate students Elçin Yıldız and İpek Kıratlı are admitted to the internship program. We congratulate our students and wish them success.
16/01/2018
As part of the Systems' Analysis, Design and Implementation courses in the Industrial Engineering curriculum during which groups of our senior students work on real-life problems in partnership with various companies in Ankara Başkent Organize Sanayi (Başkent OSB) industrial zone, our students presented their work for the IE 407 Systems' Analysis course after final exams end. We congratulate all groups presenting their projects.
24/11/2017
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ferda Çetinkaya and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Orhan Karasakal attended the 1st System Analysis and Studies Panel that was organized by the Undersecratariat for Defence Industries in SSM Nuri Demirağ Hall on the 24th of November. The Panel aims to coordinate, diffuse and relate similar activities in national defence technology activities. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Orhan Karasakal gave a talk titled "İnsan Kaynakları Yönetimi için Bilimsel Yöntemler," that is on scientific methods for human resources management.
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Asst. Prof. Dr. Ayyüce Aydemir Karadağ, Asst. Prof. Dr. Gonca Yıldırım, and Asst. Prof. Dr. Benhür Satır presented their research at the INFORMS Annual Meeting in Houston, Texas that was held in October 22-25, 2017. The INFORMS Annual Meeting is held each fall and it is the largest Operations Research and Analytics conference bringing together more than 5,000 people from all over the world.
25/10/2017
A ceremony took place on 25.10.2017, Wednesday, for IE students who met the requirements for Honor and High Honor Certificates during the Spring semester of the academic year 2016-2017. We congratulate our students.
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Final presentations of the one-year long projects, done by groups of senior students under supervision of faculty members, on real-life problems of companies in Başkent Organize Sanayi (Başkent OSB) were held on June 5th. Three out of 11 presenting groups which received the highest scores on their year-long efforts from a jury of faculty members were selected to present their projects in the 11th Çankaya University R&D Fair. We congratulate all groups presenting their projects.
12/05/2017
Çağrı Çakmak, an IE undergraduate student and former IEC president, participated in a seven-day enterpreneurship training that was organized by Çankaya University and Ankara Development Agency with financial support of European Union as part of the Project on the Development of the Ankara Entrepreneurship Ecosystem for Enhancing Youth Employment. 49 students received certificates at the end of the training that was held during 24 April 2017-12 May 2017. Çağrı, with two other team members, shared the first place with another group, and as a result, were awarded a grant from T.C. Small and Medium Business Development and Support Adminitration (KOSGEB). The business plan involved a start-up project aimed to increase the productivity in workplaces by reducing the non-business-related phone calls that negatively affect the productivity. We congratulate our student on his success.
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Our students presented their work for the IE 407 Systems' Analysis course after the final-exam period. We congratulate all groups presenting their projects.
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Onat Totuk gave a talk on Industry 4.0 held in Başkent Organize Sanayi Conference Center. The seminar, organized by joint efforts between our department, Industrial Engineering Club and Başkent Organize Sanayi magament, received great interest from the attendees including faculty, students and industry professionals together.
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Every year, Operational Research Society of Turkey and a university organize the National Operations Research and Industrial Engineering Congress. This year, the 36th congress was held on July 13th through 15th, 2016 at Yaşar University, İzmir, Turkey. Our department chair Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ferda Can Çetinkaya served in the Program Committee and a member of our faculty, Asst. Prof. Dr. M. Alp Ertem organized a session on "Humanitarian Logistics".02/05/2016
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We congratulate Elif Gökçe Kıyak, on her winning a grant for summer training in Europe with YITAK and wish her a successful summer training.25/04/2016
"ERP Awareness Day," a-day long series of seminars and tutorials held on April 25th by experts in Enterprise Resource Planning, was a huge success with a high participant rate from inside and outside our university. The activity was a joint effort between our Industrial Engineering Club and the ERP Committee. A certificate of attendance was given to participants at the end of this successful activity that shed a light to the career development and career path selection for our students. Stated as an "impeccable organization" by the invited speakers of the activity, we congratulate our students and their advisor, Dr. M. Alp Ertem, who have worked hard in making this activity possible and a huge success.
12/03/2016
Dr. Alp Ertem contributed to the January-February 2016 issue of the "Atmosfer" magazine, a publication of SF Customs Consultancy, by giving an interview on logistics. This issue also mentions about the collaboration of our department and SF Customs Consultancy on two senior design projects.15/02/2016
We held a farewell party for our former research assistant, Melike İşbilir, who recently got an offer from Yapı Kredi to work as Marketing Analysis and Optimization Expert. We congratulate her and wish her success in her new job.
12/02/2016
Dr. Gonca Yıldırım has been offered a part-time adjunct professor position to teach online a doctorate level course (Economic Analysis of Systems Engineering Projects) at Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T) in United States of America. Dr. Yıldırım recently started teaching the course and her efforts will contribute to the linkage agreements, which started last summer between Çankaya University and Missouri S&T. We congratulate Dr. Yıldırım on her appointment.12/02/2016
A special issue, including the first three winning articles of the student projects competition in Operational Research and Industrial Engineering National Congress (OR/IE 2015), of the Journal of Industrial Engineering, which is a publication of the Turkish Chamber of Mechanical Engineers, has been published. The articles in this special issue which edited by Associate Professor Ferda Can Çetinkaya, can be accessed online. All students taking the course IE 408 Systems' Design and Implementation are recommended to read these award-winning articles of the student projects competitions.16/09/2015
Every year, Operational Research Society of Turkey and a university organize the National Operations Research and Industrial Engineering Congress. This year, the 35th congress was held on September 9th through 11th, 2015 at Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ferda Can Çetinkaya served in the Organizing Committee and chaired a cluster on "Scheduling and Project Management". Asst. Prof. Dr. Nureddin Kırkavak served in the Advisory Board for the congress. Another member of our faculty, Asst. Prof. Dr. M. Alp Ertem organized and chaired a session on "Humanitarian Logistics". Asst. Prof. Dr. M. Alp Ertem also made two presentations under "Humanitarian Logistics and Societal Problems” cluster titled as “Comparison of Single and Multi-Objective Modeling of Container Allocation in Humanitarian Logistics” and “Models, Solutions and Enabling Technologies in Humanitarian Logistics".03/09/2015
A special issue, including the first three winning articles of the student projects competition in Operational Research and Industrial Engineering National Congress (OR/IE 2014), of the Journal of Industrial Engineering, which is a publication of the Turkish Chamber of Mechanical Engineers, has been published. The articles in this special issue, which is edited by Associate Professor Ferda Can Çetinkaya can be accessed online.21/07/2015
Assistant Professor M. Alp Ertem has been selected for two years as a member on the evaluation board for The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) Science Center Establishment Support Programme as of 17.04.2015. We congratulate and wish him continued success. Science Center Establishment Support Programme (4003) is developed to trigger interest in science by establishing science centers that connect people from all ages and diverse education levels with science as well as provide an experimental and practical learning environment from the information source.07/07/2015
Our undergraduate program was first accredited in May 1, 2013 for two years by the Association for Evaluation and Accreditation of Engineering Programs (MÜDEK) and awarded the First Cycle EUR-ACE Certificate. Our dedication to quality education has been rewarded with an extension of three more years for the MÜDEK accreditation and the award of First Cycle EUR-ACE Certificate until September 30, 2018.
06/07/2015
A Dictionary of Engineering Terms for 22 engineering fields including industrial engineering has been prepared by the Turkish Science Academy working committee, in which Associate Professor Ferda Can Çetinkaya served as a member, and can be accessed online.03/07/2015
Ülkühan Küçük, our top graduating senior of class 2015, was awarded with a plaquette and given a graduation gift by the vice chair Ahmet Eniş, treasurer Alaaddin Eksin, and technical official Ali Göktaş of the board of Ankara branch of the UCTEA Chamber of Mechanical Engineers during the Commencement held on the 3rd of July. We are proud of Ülkühan and wish her continued success in her future.
13/06/2015
Group of our senior students with their senior design project titled "Detection of Technical and Non-Technical Electricity Losses" won the "Best Presentation Award" among five Industrial Engineering senior design student groups presenting at the Çankaya University 9th R&D Project Fair. We congratulate our students Aslı Nur Acaröz, Nihan Çelen, Elif Erdem and Tuğba Tutar and their project advisor Asst. Prof. Özlem Türker Bayrak.
05/06/2015
A group of our senior students, Duru Altındemir, Derya Gürcan, Fatma Ülkühan Küçük, Aylin Berk and Fatoş Gamze Özdemir, are awarded the TÜBİTAK 2241/A scholarship for Industry Oriented Bachelor Senior Project Support Program with their senior design project titled "M-Stage Hybrid Flowshop Scheduling for Multiprocessing Identical Parallel Machines with Recirculating Jobs" under supervision of our faculty member Asst. Prof. Dr. Benhür Satır. We congratulate our students and their project advisor for their success.
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Senior Design Group 2 was selected into the final 12 teams from among 22 different universities and 64 different competing projects, and successfully represented our department at the finals of the Student Project Contest at the 34th Operations Research & Industrial Engineering National Congress. Group 2's project, titled "System Improvement for Minimizing the Setup Losses of Press Line in AKSAN Steel Forging", competed against 63 other projects in the first round and 11 other projects at the finals. We congratulate our students Büşra Dindar, Dilşad Karaduman, Gözde Öz, and Şule Ünal and their project advisors Asst. Prof. Haluk Aygüneş, Asst. Prof. Nureddin Kırkavak, and Expert Atıl Kurt.
24/06/2014
Group 4 with their senior design project titled "Development of Material Handling Management System for Replenishment of Assembly Lines" won the "Best Presentation Award" among 12 Industrial Engineering senior design student groups presenting at the Çankaya University 8th R&D Project Fair. We congratulate our students İbrahim Ethem Altürk, Oktay Mesut Arslan, Kadir Döğer, and Ece Pınar Kocatepe and their project advisors Asst. Prof. Özlem Türker Bayrak, Asst. Prof. Nureddin Kırkavak, and Expert Derya Akbulut.
10/06/2014
Presentations, of the senior design projects conducted by groups of our senior students working on real-life problems in partnership with various production and service companies in Ankara, took place as part of the 8th R&D Project Fair at Çankaya University. IE students presented their solutions and decision support systems developed to solve real-life problems met in these firms.
10/06/2014
Assistant Professor M. Alp Ertem received a career award for 157,100TL (approximately $73,724) for his project entitled "Sustainable Humanitarian Logistics Through Intermodal Freight Transportation (113M493)" under TÜBİTAK 3501 - National Young Researchers Career Development Program (CAREER). The purpose of this program is to encourage young scientists with Ph.D. degrees and who are at the beginning of their scientific careers by supplying project funds for their studies. Dr. Ertem is among one of the four scientists in Turkey who received a career support in 2013 from the Industrial Engineering discipline.
The key idea of Dr. Ertem's project is to provide for the beneficiaries of a disaster using intermodal transportation when single mode alternative becomes unusable or infeasible. This project explores the opportunities of intermodal freight transportation in sustainable humanitarian aid delivery. The research area involves two main domains: (1) humanitarian aid delivery, and (2) intermodal freight transportation. The first domain is often called "humanitarian logistics" by the academicians and practitioners in the disaster management field. The second domain is intermodal freight transportation. Intermodal transportation is defined as the type of transportation that involves multiple modes. This project aims to investigate the intersection of these two research domains from the perspective of sustainability.
The outcomes of this project will help Prime Ministry Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD) reach beneficiaries of a disaster in shorter time, with fewer disruptions, and in an efficient way. The high cost transportation investments could only be justified by using these investments in different ways such as freight transportation. This project will enhance the application of already funded intermodal transportation projects from a humanitarian logistics standpoint such as the Transport Corridor Europe - Caucasus – Asia (TRACECA).
