Aviation, Space and Technology Festival (TEKNOFEST), of which Anadolu Agency (AA) is the "Global Communication Partner" and carried out by the Ministry of Industry and Technology and the T3 Foundation, welcomes its visitors at Şanlıurfa GAP Airport.
Ondokuz Mayıs University became a finalist in the Jet Engine Design Competition of TEKNOFEST Southeast, VORTEX in the Rotary Wing category of the International Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Competition, PARS in the Rotary Wing category of the International Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Competition, 19TECH in the Unmanned Marine Vehicle Competition, and CeitssLAB-Onk3T in the 3T Competition in Oncology.
The teams mainly included students from the electrical-electronics, machinery, construction, metallurgy and materials, industrial engineering departments and the faculty of architecture.
“We attended TEKNOFEST with 130 students”
Rector Prof. Dr. Fatma Aydın, in her evaluation to the AA correspondent, stated that the states with strong technology in the world are also the states that have a say.
Referring to the importance of domestic and national production, Aydın said, "In order for our country to have a say in the world, it needs to develop its own independent, local, national and original technology. TEKNOFESTs started for this purpose, the National Technology Move was established with this vision and has been continuing for 9 years. TEKNOFESTs are the places where the technology community fell to the ground, and this year our community fell to Şanlıurfa." he said.
Aydın explained that, as a university, they educate students in the TEKNOFEST ecosystem and noted that not only the students but the whole society should be kneaded with this culture.
Stating that they support TEKNOFESTs with their projects, Aydın said:
"Our university has a National Technology Workshop. We launched this workshop 1 month ago with the support of TÜBİTAK. In these workshops, our students realize their own projects, produce their ideas, make prototypes and put them into production. They patent the information they produce from time to time. We are the 12th university to have a patent among state universities, and we have 5 commercialized patents. Today, we received the products of this. The results were announced, we won a gold, a silver and a bronze medal. 130 "We participated in TEKNOFEST with our students, we had 17 teams, and 4 of our teams made it to the finals."
Aydin pointed out that the university has a project to establish an artificial intelligence-supported agricultural farm as a result of the agreement between the Agricultural Technologies Cluster (TÜME) Foundation and the Council of Higher Education (YÖK), and announced that they have made agreements on the subject and that the agricultural farm will be established soon.
Emphasizing that TEKNOFEST is making progress towards internationalization, Aydın said, "We observed that there was participation in TEKNOFEST from many different countries this year. We also need to establish this ecosystem and develop joint projects in friendly countries." made his assessment.
