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Prof. Oussama Khatib visited METU Design Factory

Prof. Oussama Khatib visited METU Design Factory

Oussama Khatib, Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University visited METU Design Factory just before his seminar titled OCEAN ONE: A ROBOTIC AVATAR FOR OCEANIC DISCOVERY at Department of Electrics and Electronics Engineering.

Known for his research on methodologies and technologies in human-centered robotics including humanoid control architectures, human motion synthesis, interactive dynamic simulation, haptics, and human-friendly robot design, Professor Khatib will present his recent findings between 14:00-15:30 at Sevim Tan auditorium.

IDS-4 Applications are open

IDS-4 Applications are open

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.
IDS brings students from different disciplines together in interdisciplinary teams to develop innovative products.

IDS-4 will be conducted as an elective course (ID403 Collaborative Design) offered to all departments in 2016 Fall semester.

IDS – 4

IDS – 4

Interdisciplinary Design Studio – 4

(ID403 – Collaborative Design)

During Interdisciplinary Design Studio 4, teams composed of graduate and undergraduate students from different disciplines developed innovative solutions for the problem areas proposed by firms and NGOs. Throughout IDS-4, design processes were conducted in accordance with workshops including design thinking techniques, seminars and knowledge and experience sharing of the faculty members from different disciplines.

06T

Özlem Çavuş • Özge Danacı • Denizcan İbrikçi • Aslı Ergin • Enes Aldemir • Kevser Çakmak

 

   TCON is an application that makes the vehicles special to the driver and passengers at the same time. After downloading to the mobile phone, TCON can automatically connect with the vehicle and combine the features, roads and passengers in common in three main areas: private music playback, news reading and space recommendation.  

 

Rockids

Ramin Rasulzade • Nilay Nida Can • Yao Mingjian • İpek Öztürk • Oğuz Özdemir • Kübra Sena Şimşek • Melike Aydınlılar

 

   The aim of Rockids is to tell the children of 6 to 10 years of the atmospheric flight experience in an engaging, instructive and amusing way. The design consists of 3 basic parts: a book, a physical toy, and an application to be used by this toy. The basics of flying in the book are told through an interactive story to children. Every chapter in the book is directed at the child’s play and practice so that the child can experience the principle described.  

 

Utepils

Hasan Anıl Devrimsel • Sena Bozkurt • Uzay Kaş • Enes Coşkun • Burcu Leblebicier Çetin • Deniz Özkan

 

   The goal of the Utepils group is to cool the liquid in the bottle before making any changes to the bottle it is in. To this end, the high pressure CO2 gas has to be vented through a small hole in the tube it is in and the liquid inside the tube is cooled. In this easy-to-use device, the coolant is removed from the package and activated by pressing the button on the top of the tool when it is placed inside the bottle.  

 

Windmill

Melek Deniz Tarhan • Özüm Hazal Özgenç • Seren Özok • Ayşe Kaplan • Deniz Özabat

 

   In this project, which targets SMEs in the manufacturing industry employing 50 or more employees, a phone application called K.O.B.İ (Alpha) was developed by determining the uncertainties that led to the inefficiency of SMEs. In the application that can be defined as “serious game”, it is aimed to increase awareness in this regard.  

 

IDS-3 Closing Ceremony

IDS-3 Closing Ceremony

Closing Ceremony for IDS-3 was held on 20 January 2017 at Design Factory. Five different groups containing different disciplines had presented their innovative solutions after a full term working in public. After each group’s 10 minutes presentations, a question-answer session had started to understand the solutions deeper.

MotusMagnus team’s project, sponsored by Autodesk, was designing a smart jacket to straighten the posture of people. Güven Hastanesi sponsored Smoke on the Water to develop an application which can be used by people trying to quit smoking. The design process for an aesthetic electricity pylon system was conducted by Artifex, sponsored by Miteng. İmece designed a system to control the risk of rollover of tractors by sponsorship of Türk Traktör. There was a social responsibility project as well. BreakEng designed a board game to break social stereotypes about the engineering profession in high school students. 

 

Schedule

13:30 – Opening

13:45 – Project Presentations

15:45 – Thanks to our Partners

16:00 – Coctail and Exhibition

 

IDS-3 Technology Partner

ODTÜ Teknokent A.Ş.

 

Sponsors & Supporters

Autodesk

Güven Hastanesi

Miteng

Türk Traktör

UNDP

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Design Factory Global Network (DFGN) is Growing

Design Factory Global Network (DFGN) is Growing

The Design Factory Global Network (DFGN) continues to grow, bringing together innovation centers that operate within the university and research institutes where the METU Design Factory is a member. The DFGN allows for the realization of radical innovations through cross-cultural and cross-border collaboration, independent of time frames, through the collaboration language and methods offered.

The network, which is a member of 13 innovation centers operating in different countries of the world, provides hands-on training for real and challenging industrial projects for five continental students; appropriate environment for the development of new ideas, together with leading academics and other initiatives for businesses; for researchers, they provide interdisciplinary research opportunities with industry partners.

Representatives of member centers will meet in Geneva for International Design Factory Week 2016 events on 12-16 December and develop cooperation plans and projects between centers.

DFGN member innovation centers as of November 2016:
-Aalto University Design Factory
-Tongji University Sino-Finnish Centre
-Swinburne University of Technology Design Factory
-Duoc Design Factory
-CERN Ideasquare
-Design Factory Korea
-Porto Design Factort
-PhilaU Nexus Design Factory
-Frisian Design Factory
-METU Design Factory
-Design Factory Javeriana
-NYC Design Factory
-RTU Design Factory

DFGN Web Page: http://dfgn.org/

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Design Thinking Training for METU Teknokent Entrepreneurs

Design Thinking Training for METU Teknokent Entrepreneurs

On 21-22 October 2016, METU Teknokent’s incubation companies were educated on design thinking.

Participants had the opportunity to practice six basic phases of design thinking: understanding, observation, perspective development, idea development, model development and testing.

Participants who redefined the problem identified in the training through face-to-face interview with the users, prototyped the solutions they developed.

IDS – 3

IDS – 3

Interdisciplinary Design Studio – 3

(ID403 – Collaborative Design)

During Interdisciplinary Design Studio 3, teams composed of graduate and undergraduate students from different disciplines developed innovative solutions for the problem areas proposed by firms and NGOs. Throughout IDS-3, design processes were conducted in accordance with workshops including design thinking techniques, seminars and knowledge and experience sharing of the faculty members from different disciplines.

Artifex

Aygen Savaş • Ekin Sancak • Hasan Soycan • İsmail Melik Taş • Gizem Yetiş • Hakan Yıldız • Hüsnü Şener

 

   The Artifex group has focused on the aesthetics of the electric lines, which until now have only been seen as a infrastructure problem. With this project, a parametric design has been proposed, stabilizing the values of the legislation,
reducing the electromagnetic field generated by the conductor wires, increasing the night visibility of the warning spheres, and providing a new aesthetic understanding of the cityscapes.  

 

BreakEng

Abdullah Yusuf Tatlı • Elif Nur Bilir • İnci Tuğçe Üçkök • Lilyana Yazirlıoğlu • Meltem Düzgün

 

   Because of the perception that engineering is a male profession, women are not adequately represented in engineering. Our main goal as the BreakEng group is to break social stereotypes about the engineering profession in high school students. For this purpose, a game proposal has been introduced in which the students can learn the engineering profession in an interactive way to bring up the field and role models for each class and student.  

 

İmece

Mahmut Burak Atasever • Duygu Vatan • Özcan Keklik • Esra Reis • Mehmet Alper Kuyumcu • Zeynep Yılmaz

 

   In order to make a “safer tractor design” by the team of İmece, a solution to tractor overturns has been developed and a moving weight system consisting of information, guidance and intervention steps has been developed. With this
project, a system consists of mechanical and social aspects has been provided while aiming of raising awareness of the farmer.  

 

Motus Magnus

Alperen Tüğen • Aysun Bolat • Bahar Aydemir • Buğrahan Gülcüler • Sezin Sarıca • Hüseyin Uğur Genç • Zeynep Ece Şahin

 

   The MotusMagnus group presented a “smart vest” solution proposal, in the sense that most of the community has a dysfunction due to a desk work. This vest seeks to create a collective culture in smart casual offices, thanks to a
mobile application that can be used together.  

 

Smoke on the Water

Gökhan Çakal • Ege Çakaloz • Mert Ozan Katipoğlu • Oğuz Atıcı • Tuğba Purtul

 

  Flourish is an interactive mobile application aims to raise awareness about the harms of smoking for children and parents while supporting the person who wants to quit smoking during the most difficult first three weeks of quiting process with family and relative support.  

 

IDS-3 Applications are open

IDS-3 Applications are open

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.
IDS brings students from different disciplines together in interdisciplinary teams to develop innovative products.

IDS-3 will be conducted as an elective course (ID403 Collaborative Design) offered to all departments in 2016 Fall semester.

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IDS-2 Closing Ceremony

IDS-2 Closing Ceremony

The Second Interdisciplinary Design Studio (IDS2) had come to an end with a glorious closing ceremony on April 1st at the METU Culture and Convention Center. IDS2, an extra-curricular activity organized by METU Design Factory, aimed to bring faculty and students to work on interdisciplinary collaborative projects for eight weeks. Thirty-eight students and twelve faculty from various departments attended the IDS2. Six student teams were established and each one was given a problem or a concept to address by industry partners. The six industry and NGO partners are as follows: Arcelik, BAMA, Eczacibasi, FNSS, Roketsan, and the Association for Solidarity with Asylum Seekers and Migrants (SGDD).

At the closing ceremony, each team made a presentation and demo for 10 minutes, which was followed by a five-minute critique by Prof. Arzu Gonenc Sorguc (Dept. of Architecture), Asso. Dr. Adil Oran (Dept. of Business), and Hanzade Cicek (Vice President for METU-Technopolis).

ATOK team’s project, sponsored by FNSS, was designing a leverage & rail mechanism for armored vehicles to cross trenches and ditches. Eczacibasi sponsored Dustbusters to develop a robotic mechanism to clean shower trays. The challenge of sleeping in microgravity was tackled by Feza-i Azrak, sponsored by Roketsan, by creating a sleep pod utilizing centripetal acceleration. There were social responsibility projects as well. Harmony, designed a portable empathy room to raise awareness of asylum seekers in Turkey and SGDD’s activities on the matter. Nos Curabit, supported by BAMA, developed a rehabilitation and exercise ball for children between 3 and 6 years old who are suffering from cerebral palsy and juvenile arthritis. PiHola focused on user experience research. Sponsored by Arcelik, they developed “sense frame”, which is a module to capture the user experience in their natural environment and conducts data mining on the collective datasets.

After the group presentations Prof. Volkan Atalay, Vice President of METU, thanked the sponsors for their contributions to the DTS2. The closing ceremony ended with a reception and exhibition where the student groups demonstrated their models and prototypes to the guests.

 

Agenda

17:00 – Introduction

17:15 – Project presentations

18:45 – Thanks to sponsors & supporters

19:00 – Reception & Exhibition

 

IDS-2 Technology Partner

ODTÜ Teknokent A.Ş.

 

Sponsors & Supporters

Arçelik

Bama Teknoloji

Eczacıbaşı

FNSS Savunma Sistemleri

Roketsan

Sığınmacılar ve Göçmenlerle Dayanışma Derneği

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ODTU 60th Anniversary Honorary Lecture Series

ODTU 60th Anniversary Honorary Lecture Series

Design Thinking: The Creative Power of Teams by Prof. Ulrich Weinberg (Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam)

When: 18.3/2016 02:00-04:00 PM

Where: METU Culture and Convention Center – Kemal Kurdas Hall

Since June 2007 director of “School of Design Thinking” at HPI Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam. Studied fine arts and design at the Academies of Fine Arts in Munich and Berlin. 1980 to 1986 freelance work as TV graphics designer at public and private production houses. Since 1986 specialized on 3D computer animation (mental images, ART+COM, etc.) on scientific, industrial and art projects for companies like ARD, BMW, Daimler Benz, Siemens, Schering, Telekom, ZDF. Founder of the companies TERRATOOLS and CYPARADE, specializing on 3D animation, simulation and interactive 3D projects such as computer games and cross media projects. Since 1994 Mr. Weinberg is holding a lifetime professorship for computer animation at the Film & Television Academy Babelsberg (HFF). Vice president for research, development and international relations for four years. 2003 Co-Initiator of the cross-university project “n-space – Innovation Center for Nonlinear Media”. Since 2004 Visiting Professor at CUC Communication University of China, Beijing and there since 2014 honorary director of the Design Thinking Innovation Center Beijing. Since November 2014 elected board member of the DGQ German Society for Quality .

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