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Students of Department of Fashion and Textile Design, Faculty of Fine Arts and Design, Izmir University of Economics, created a fashion feast at Agora Shopping Mall. Young designers created 96 different style designs from experimental outfits to costumes of movie heroes, and IUE student models displayed these designs on the runway. Also, Jörn Fröhlich’s, Lecturer, Department of Fashion and Textile Design, Faculty of Fine Arts and Design, Izmir University of Economics (IUE), creation titled, “Spring Cleaning”, which includes 25 different designs he created with waste materials, attracted great attention.   

Prospective university students started the count down for Transition to Higher Education Examination (YGS), the first step to overcome on the way to higher education. As 2 million 265 thousand 902 students enrolled for the exam, the experts strongly remind that the “exam is not a matter of life and death, that it is just an exam”.

Izmir University of Economics (IUE), Vocational School, Footwear Design and Manufacturing Program is making a difference at Izmir Footwear Fair, an organization which is very significant for the industry. The program, which enrolled its very first students this year, is displaying their designs to the representatives of the industry and the young designers are getting job proposals onsite at their booth which draws great attention. Their booth is the only one which is represented by an education institution unlike others that are represented by footwear industry.

Students of Faculty of Business, Izmir University of Economics, ranked among the top five in Turkey final selections for CFA Research Challenge organized by Chartered Financial Analyst – CFA. 2 thousand 500 teams worldwide are competing against each other to make it to the final of the challenge held annually.

The bands Odyø Vijul and Expérience Limite, made up of faculty members and students of Izmir University of Economics Faculty of Communication, and Department of Psychology, performed at the 24^th Izmir European Jazz Festival organized by Izmir Foundation for Culture, Arts and Education (IKSEV) with the support of Izmir Metropolitan Municipality.   

Japanese education brought second prize to Zeynep Acarlı, senior student at IUE Department of Visual Communication Design, at the Japanese Speech Contest. Acarlı, who takes Japanese as a second foreign language, expressed the Japanese love of nature at the ‘Japan from My Window: Introducing Japan and Japanese Speech Contest’ with her “Hanafuda: Traditional Japanese Card Game” titled presentation and came in second place.

Students of Department of Industrial Design, and Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design of Izmir University of Economics (IUE) designed a “tea house” for tea addicts. Students designed contemporary and practical tea tables and chairs for tea houses which are widely used in Turkish culture. Students of IUE Vocational School, Furniture & Decoration Program designed bookcases and seating groups based on cube format and displayed them at Izmir Furniture Fair.

Izmir University of Economics (IUE) brought its students and its graduates, who want to steer their career in different companies, with human resources managers as part of Career Days event. Human resources officials of 29 companies interviewed with graduates and students.  

Young architects of Izmir University of Economics (IUE) are building Mars. After NASA reported that geological features resembling those on Earth suggest Mars was once a wet and hospitable planet, the future architects developed designs for the first human colonists to travel to Mars in 2024. 102 students, who got inspired by various plants and animals such as pinecone, dragonfly, snail, etc., prepared architectural designs for the first colonists, and delivered their presentations via virtual reality in “Mission Mars 2024” titled workshop.

Students of Department of Fashion and Textile Design, Faculty of Fine Arts and Design, Izmir University of Economics, will create a fashion feast at Agora Shopping Mall. IUE students will be displaying different style designs from experimental outfits to costumes of movie heroes at two different fashion shows at 18.00 and 20.00 respectively on Friday, March 10, 2017. 95 unique designs of 40 students will be showcased on the runway. Students of “Fashion Show Organization and Choreography” course will be putting what they learned into practice on the podium by organizing the entire event.