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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.  

Students of Izmir University of Economics (IUE) developed business models at “Applied Entrepreneurship Course”’. Students, who successfully completed the course, received their certificates from Recep Özçevik, KOSGEB South Regional Manager, Prof. Dr. Can Muğan, IUE Rector, and Prof. Dr. Hasan Fehmi Baklacı, Dean of IUE Faculty of Business, and qualified to receive the applied entrepreneurship support by KOSGEB (Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Development Organization). Students, who want to turn their business ideas into reality, will be receiving a total of 150 thousand TL; 50 TL of which will be given as a grant and the remaining 100 thousand TL will be given as an interest-free loan to be paid back in 54 months.

We love to eat together. Family Structure Survey, co-conducted by Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) and Ministry of Family and Social Policies, revealed that proportion for households’ coming together on the weekday dinners was 78.2%, and it was 83.1% for the weekend dinners. While the proportion of meeting at breakfast was 43.4% on the weekdays, it was 72.3% on the weekends. The experts emphasize the positive effect of having family meals on children and youth.

Speaking a language allows us to use both hemispheres of the brain. The research, conducted by Dr. Filiz Mergen, Lecturer at Vocational School, Izmir University of Economics (IUE), revealed that speed of word recognition and rate of accuracy of words in two languages for bilingual people (those speak Turkish and English in this study) were the same. The study also revealed that the speed of word recognition for individuals, who only spoke Turkish, was higher in left hemisphere of the brain.   

Izmir University of Economics is bringing those who make a difference in business together students and professionals. Leading managers of the business World will be sharing their experiences with young generations at the “2^nd Human Resources Summit”, organized under the leadership of IUE Faculty of Business for human resources managers and employees.  

Children in Turkey receive initial training at home. The study on Family Structure in Turkey, co-conducted by Turkish Statistical Institute (TURKSTAT) and the Ministry of Family and Social Policies, revealed that 86% of mothers undertook the responsibility of caring for their children aged between 0 and 5 years. It was seen that after mothers, the day care was undertaken mostly by grandmothers with 7.4%, while the proportion of day care performed by nursery or kindergarten was 2.8%. The experts draw attention to the significance of training during this period.  

Students of Izmir University of Economics will develop their own electric cars. IUE students, who participated in the electric car contest, held by TUBITAK, with their team titled “Ecowheel”, received total of 35 thousand TL support to build their car. The team, consisting of students of IUE Department of Electrical-Electronics Engineering, is developing their electric cars for the contests to be held on August 21 – 27, an event being held since 2005 with the purpose of contributing to technological development, creating awareness on alternative, clean energy sources, and bringing in vocational experience to students. The team of 25 people will be representing Izmir University of Economics at the "TUBITAK Efficiency Challenge Electric Vehicle" contest.