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TRIP TO NASA FROM IZMIR UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS
Future engineers trained by Izmir University of Economics (IUE) will be able to review the progress of space and aeronautics onsite at NASA. IUE prospective engineers will be visiting NASA Johnson Space Center, and Aerospace Systems Lab at University of Texas. The trip will also include signing a collaboration agreement with University of Texas for student exchange and development of joint projects.
In addition to 14 students from IUE Departments of Aerospace Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering, and Software Engineering, a student each from Izmir Science High School and Izmir Buca Science High School, IUE Rector Prof. Dr. Can Muğan, Prof. Dr. Yaşar Güneri Şahin, Dean of IUE Faculty of Engineering, Prof. Dr. Barış Özerdem, Head of IUE Department of Aerospace Engineering, and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Diaa Gadelmavla, Lecturer from IUE Department of Mechatronics Engineering, are among the group to visit NASA and observe the studies onsite.
‘A new direction for Turkish engineering system’
IUE Rector Prof. Dr. Can Muğan pointed that they would be signing a collaboration agreement with University of Texas at Arlington for student exchange and conducting joint scientific studies. She said most successful students in classes and two students from the most successful science high school of Izmir would be attending the trip. The Rector stated the following:
“We are working to send a satellite to the space in the near future. We have a young and dynamic, entrepreneurial education system. We search and question. We are taking steps to manage the future. We want our students to get familiar with important institutions regarding their departments as part of our steps in training the future engineers. NASA, which was established in 1961, and given the name Johnson Space Center in 1973, is a very significant place for especially human spaceflight. All astronauts of USA and its allies in space researches are being trained in this center. The Center, including hundreds of buildings, is successfully in charge of flight control of programs such as Gemini, Apollo, Space Laboratory, and Space Shuttle especially. Our students will get a chance to observe and learn about these structures and shape their future in Turkish engineering area.”