STUDENTS ARE SHAPING THE FUTURE OF EUROPE

11 SEPTEMBER 2013

The future industrial engineers from all over Europe came together at Izmir University of Economics and assessed Turkey in terms of 3 different dimensions. The members of European Students of Industrial Engineering and Management (ESTIEM) analysed Turkey in terms of economics, politics, and culture. Izmir University of Economics (IUE), which is among the seven universities in Turkey that was accepted to ESTIEM, hosted European students and promoted Turkey. Presentations on Turkish economy, politics, cuisine, and paper marbling were delivered at the “ESTIEM Europe3D Coordination Meeting” that was organized by IUE Industrial Systems Group. Students separated into groups and exchanged information that will help change the world at the organization where 35 participants from Latvia, Finland, Hungary, Ukraine, Cyprus, and Turkey attended.

Anıl İnanlı, Chairman of IUE Industrial Systems Group, indicated that the seminars helped gain analytical thinking skills, engineering information, and practical management skills. He said, “The organization, which was established in 1990 aims to establish and foster relations between students of Industrial Engineering and Management across Europe and to support them in their personal and professional development. We, as project teams, organize exchange programs, conferences, case study competitions, seminars, and study sessions appealing to whole Europe.”

İnanlı also stated that such organizations provided great benefits for students of industrial engineering, who internalized the technological infrastructures, in their business lives. He said the participants got into groups to make projections in political, economic, and cultural interaction. İnanlı said, “We developed ideas on politics, economics, and culture through interactive seminars, trainings, visits, and activities. ESTIEM currently reaches out to more than 50 thousand students at 72 universities in 28 countries. We designed the future of Europe3D at the meetings we held in our country. The upcoming meeting will be held in Russia, and another one in Macedonia. The issues we are working on here will be finalized in those countries.”