IDS-Spring ’20

06Aug

Disiplinlerarası Tasarım Stüdyosu – Spring’20

(BA4148 – Interdisciplinary Problem Solving)

8th Interdisciplinary Design Studio carried in the 2019-2020 spring semester continued by groups of interdisciplinary METU students to offer innovative solutions and ideas for real problems submitted by companies from several different sectors. Workshops following design thinking principles, seminars, and faculty members from different study fields sharing their experiences and knowledge were conducted throughout the term. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic that effected the globe during the semester, face to face educational activities halted and the rest of the IDS process was carried out using online collaboration tools and teleconferencing in a virtual environment. A virtual closing ceremony is held at the end of the semester that presented an invaluable opportunity for IDS students to share their projects and experiences with attendees from Design Factory Global Network, industry partners, IDS students and, METU Design Factory tutors.

LOCUS

Demet Doğanay – Tuğba Uçar – Ceren Kalfa – Busenur Şahin – Duygu Can

“Locus” sponsored by UNDP, aimed to renew a ghost space in Ankara, to make it a more effective area for the public-use. By considering the outputs of user research conducted on the area, a better-suited concept design enhancing the dynamic surroundings of the environment is intended. The project was designed with the ideals of the area having a more sustainable system and to educate the users by cognitive learning methods, encouraging self-learning.

AWAKE

Didem Baratalı – Eda Yılmaz – Ezgi Özkürkçü – Utku Ertürkan

“Farkında” sponsored by UNDP two interconnected processes that consist of interactive brochure design and train-wagon concept. Rather than conventional design approaches, an interactive design approach is aimed to better convey the messages to the target group for the design of the train-wagon concept and brochure. Among UNDP’s Sustainable Development Goals, “Good Health and Well-Being”, “Quality Education”, “Gender Equality”, “Climate Action” and, “Responsible Consumption and Production” are targeted for this project. These processes aim to raise public awareness of Sustainable Development Goals and achieve sustainable development by 2030.

PAPER TIGERS

Aysel Ege Coşkun – Ahmet Altuğ Çiçekdağı – Hande Fatma Karataş – Mücahit Alkan Yorgancı

Aiming to take the usage of unmanned aerial vehicles to another level, we focused on the dynamic and busy work life within the campus of Middle East Technical University, which seems to exhibit a highly compact city nature. We inferred from our observations that the trips within the campus result in loss of time and money for all types of users. Seeking to facilitate the transportation of goods, documents, and food, we propose a system design that highlights a quick, secure, and safe delivery of cargos via a pre-determined route and storage service. Provided that the storage-stations are located on the activity nodes of the campus, the drones are always ready for take-off to respond to the users’ needs. Thanks to its mobile application, users can manage the transportation of their cargo to another station without wasting time at the station. In this way, we hope to save time for users and see the implementation of the design on other campuses.

SMARTERA

Elvan Buse Utkulu – Arda Yazıcı – Başar Yücel – Zeynep Ceren Arular

In the scope of BA4148-Interdisciplinary Problem Solving, the Smartera group has conducted this project with the mentorship of GAMA Enerji. The main purpose of the project is to draw the attention of the new graduates and make them excited about working and being a part of this company having a fully adapted technological/digital system which follows the latest technology advancements and Industry 4.0 digital revolution. For this reason, this project aims to create a business atmosphere such that the company develops some products with the help of Industry 4.0 technologies, also optimizes and accelerates the workflows and communications between employees by boosting the effect of cutting-edge technologies in business life.

IDS Spring ’20 Virtual Closing Ceremony

12May12/05/2020

Interdisciplinary Design Studio (IDS), an interdisciplinary course conducted by METU Design Factory each semester which aims METU students coming from different disciplines to solve real problems coming from our stakeholders from various industries is coming to an end with a closing ceremony on 15th of May 2020. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic that have serious affects across the globe, this years closing ceremony will be organized virtually. Student groups that will attend the closing ceremony with their solutions are as follows,

Group Locus – UNDP
Group Awake – UNDP
Group Paper Tigers – Nurol BAE Systems (BNA)
Group Smartera – GAMA Energy

DTS-Spring ’20 Starts!

10Feb10/02/2020

Interdisciplinary Design Studio (IDS) Spring ’20, which brings together real problems from our stakeholders with METU students from different disciplines, partnering with United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Gama Energy and British Nurol Aerospace (BNA), has started.

Training for 3D Modelling and Additive Manufacturing Technologies in Vocational Education

10Feb

With the contributions of the Ankara Development Agency, between 3-4-5 February 2020, a training for” 3D Modelling and Additive Manufacturing Technologies in Vocational Education” was held for 20 students from Etimesgut Güvercinlik Vocational Technical Anatolian High School Informatics Department and Mamak Ortaköy 80. Yıl Vocational Technical Anatolian High School Electronics Technology Department in Ankara Development Agency Entrepreneurship Center and METU Design Factory. . In this training, various training and activities were organized for vocational high school students on subjects such as interdisciplinary work, three-dimensional modeling, and manufacturing, computational design, teamwork.

DTS-Spring’20 Applications are Open!

22Jan

With support from the METU Technopolis and sponsored by industry and NGOs, METU Design Factory provides training, equipment, and infrastructure to interdisciplinary student teams for collaborative design projects. DTS brings students from different disciplines together in interdisciplinary teams to develop innovative products.

Under the name of Interdisciplinary Problem Solving, Interdisciplinary Design Studio course will be held between 9.00-12.30 on Fridays as an open elective course for students from all departments at METU.

Deadline for application: January 27, 2020, 11:59 PM

Link for the application: https://tf.metu.edu.tr/registration-3/

Exhibition of Burhan Alkar

16Dec

The retrospective exhibition of Burhan Alkan, the creator of “Space and Youth Monument” sculpture, curated by METU Design Factory and Murat Akın, will take place at METU.

We are waiting for everyone at the exhibition which will be opened on December 20, 2019 at 18:00 at METU Culture and Convention Center Exhibition Hall!

All of Burhan Alkar’s valuable works will be exhibited at METU Culture and Convention Center between 20 December 2019 – 15 January 2020.

Visit of DFGN to METU DF!

15Nov

On November 13, 2019, METU Design Factory hosted Marthe Dehli, one of the Design Factory Global Network coordinators. While discussing the developments in interstellar Design Factory family that we are happy to be a part of, the developing infrastructure and training-research-development projects of METU DF were introduced and possible collaborations with other Design Factories in different countries were discussed.

METU Promotion Trip visited METU Design Factory!

27Jun

High school students from different regions of Turkey accompanied by METU students, visited METU Design Factory via METU Promotion Trip program. Design thinking, interdisciplinary and group collaboration techniques are presented to the attendants. Group activities to practise these techniques are also organized after the presentations.

IDS-Spring ’19

20May16/02/2022

Interdisciplinary Design Studio – Spring’19

(BA4148 – Interdisciplinary Problem Solving)

7th Interdisciplinary Design Studio, carried in the 2018-2019 spring semester continued by groups of interdisciplinary METU students to offer innovative solutions and ideas for real problems submitted by companies from several different sectors. Workshops following design thinking principles, seminars and faculty members from different study fields sharing their experiences and knowledge were conducted throughout the term.

NOVA

Cemal Atakan Parlak – Laçin Doğukan Uslu – Enes Berk Karahançer – Zeynep Zengin

In order to “expand the use of ID cards on the campus” mission given to us by Utarit, we started to think how we can increase identity card usage, then collecting, processing and analyzing the data that will arise from the use of the card, ensuring the correlation between the different areas and finally presenting to the users and managers. As a result of the surveys conducted with the campus components, we decided to start and develop our project in terms of transportation and library density which are the two biggest problems. Accordingly, we planned to offer the usage and occupancy rates of rings and awaiting people at the stations to the users and vehicle directorate simultaneously and also to contribute to the improvement and re-planning stages of usage analysis data which can be reached according to the desired time period. We have designed applications such as selecting the working area, displaying the occupancy rate, cancelling the reservation after the expiration of the reservation to handle library place problem thanks to the use of the card readers at the entrance and exit. Again, we created this information to be presented online to users and related management units through the interface we have created. We intend to determine the usage relationship between these areas in the form of cafeteria, sports halls, dormitories, study halls and other areas and to make the related inferences and improvements. We want to make life on campus more efficient if our project is implemented.

ELLTECH

Begüm Göktenay Güzel – Hilal Şahin – Berke Taş – Mehtap Tuğba Kaynak – Can Kayabek – Poyraz Arcasoy

Based on our customer research, we have seen that ironing is one of the most unbearable domestic works for people as they find it boring and difficult because of several reasons. For instance, they complain about exposure to extreme heat, the difficulty of dealing with wrinkles, time consumption and expensiveness of irons. In this sense, our problem solution does not offer excluding ironing with another product, but it aims to make the ironing process much easier and bearable without needing expensive irons and excessive power consumption. Thus, we designed a smart hanger that dries and provides an appropriate moisture level for ironing. Besides, users will be able to select the time for clothes to be ready for ironing through using a mobile application which communicates with our smart hanger and notifies users when clothes are at appropriate humidity level.

PELICAN

Berfin Bölükemini – Fatih Toprak – Berke Tezergil – Mahmoud Fouda – Elif Özlem Topal – Özge Kayaaslan

We observed many problems in the Turkish Cargo hub but we focused on three main of them. These are sheet covering, height measuring and cargo tracking problems. To solve the height measuring problem we used a laser sensor to determine any overflow in the height of the pallets, to make easier the job of workers we designed a sheet covering mechanism. In addition to these, we suggest using RFID technology in the hub to easily tracking of the cargos in the hub and observing the workers performance. Thanks to these problem solutions we are believing that the company’s reliability will increase. To make clear our problem solution, we designed a prototype for the work station. The prototype that we have prepared for the real imagination of our work station is including a laser sensor for the detection of any overflow of the height, 2 step motors with belts to achieve sheet covering, aluminium bars which are for the belt mechanism and to hold lasers. All these parts of our prototype are constructed on MDF plates except the step motors. In addition to these, we have suggested a new sheet type for using in the station to make workers job more easily. The sheet has its own belt two sides of it to tighten up it without using any other adhesive things.

SMARTRU

Artun Yıldız – Onur Cem Yoloğlu – Beyza Ungan – Ömür Özdoğan – Hande Alpkirişçi

The Smartru group has identified the biggest problem of campus transportation as the inefficient use of available resources. The group has developed a dynamic mobile application called METUNAVI, which includes social support, optimization of resources available and support for decision-making mechanisms among users in order to ensure effective use of the resources available to solve this problem. Thanks to the application, transportation ways such as the ring and hitchhiking, which are actively used in the campus, reach an optimum point and the walking is integrated into the system as a transportation alternative. The application has also increased the social sharing of campus components and with the incentive system, according to the application has provided continuous improvement.

IDS-Spring’19 Closing Ceremony

20May20/05/2019

7th Interdisciplinary Design Studio carried in the spring semester of the 2018-2019 academic year has ended with the closing ceremony held in the METU Design Factory. Guests, both from academia and industry attended the closing ceremony. Four different groups of METU students studying different disciplines have offered innovative solutions after a period of study. These groups presented their studies in a 10-minute presentation and a Q&A session. Also, guests had the opportunity to talk and discuss the solutions with the groups after the presentations in the exhibition area.

This semester;

“Elltech” sponsored by Arçelik designed a modular smart hanger controlled by a mobile application that manipulates and controls the moisture level of the hanging clothes by applying cold mist. This solution is also thought out to be a modular system so that different types of clothes can be optimally hanged and the user can form the device according to the user’s needs.
“Smartru” sponsored by METU Smart Campus project presented an innovative solution to the transportation problem of the METU Campus by utilizing a mobile application.
“Pelican” sponsored by Turkish Airlines Cargo developed a system solution for the Turkish Airlines cargo hub that includes tracking both the location and process of the cargo pallets using RFID. Also, they presented their automated cargo packaging solution to reduce human errors in the packaging process.
“Nova” sponsored by Utarit designed solution to optimize widely used services in the METU campus such as the library and the inter-campus ring. The presented solution involved the usage of accumulating and analyzing the data collected by the smart card system that already being used on the campus. Group also presented a system to periodically report the analyzed usage data to the campus executives for them to act on the issues.