IEEE ODTÜ
AYTEK MUTLU
PL UG
YO U RS EL F E URO P E
I N T O
BILTEK 2010-2011
Electrical Engineering STudents' European assoCiation During the last year, EESTEC LC Ankara was one of the most active LC’s among 47 LC in whole Europe. After the successful event organized in October 2009, Tools For Action, an expectation to organize another amazing event in Ankara is appeared by whole EESTEC family. Aware of that, LC Ankara had meetings for brainstorming to decide on the subject. Group works and researches resulted with the subject avionics which means avionics electronics. The name was “Above Us Only Sky” .
coffee and also tasted it. Baklava was also shown to participants in a factory with its production process. LC Ankara didn’t forget to organize a trip to visit the important places in Ankara. Participants visited Anıtkabir, Ulus and Gençlik Parkı. In addition, campuses of METU and Bilkent University were introduced and a campus rally with a tough path organized in METU to show the daily life in universities in Turkey, generally. To sum up, participants had a great week in Ankara with the full schedule of the event. LC Ankara is now waiting for new events and of course, for new guests.
The event was held between 4th -12th December 2010. The importance of this workshop was that it was the first workshop related to avionics in EESTEC history. During this event, the most well-known aviation companies in Turkey such as Havelsan and TAI (Turkish Aerospace Industries) introduced avionics and gave fundamental information about it. History of avionics, the systems in first aircrafts in world, the development of avionics, architecture of cockpit, standard localization of four main flight instruments namely altimeter, air speed, ADI and HIS and, basics sensors used in aircrafts are all covered in trainings. Participants were also able to visit the factory of TAI. The construction process of aircrafts, research and development studies on the electronic systems were shown in factory. Besides on the technical trainings, Turkish culture was introduced. A Sociology professor from METU (Middle East Technical University) gave a presentation about Turkish tradition. Participants listened about the history of Turkish
Aytek MUTLU EESTEC LC ANKARA CHAIRMAN aytek.mutlu@ieee.metu.edu.tr
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