The opening ceremony of the Air and Space Vehicles Design Laboratory, established within the Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics of ITU, was held with the participation of Temel Kotil, General Manager of Turkish Aerospace Industries and a 1983 graduate of ITU Department of Aeronautical Engineering.
The inauguration ceremony of the Air and Space Vehicles Design Laboratory established within the Faculty of Aeronautics and Astronautics of ITU was held with the participation of Prof. Dr. Temel Kotil, General Manager of Turkish Aerospace Industries and a 1983 graduate of ITU Department of Aeronautical Engineering. During the ceremony, which was held online via ITU's social media accounts with the theme of university-industry cooperation, Temel Kotil talked about the importance of the laboratory and the position of ITU engineers in the sector. Speaking at the opening ceremony, Prof. Dr. Temel Kotil, General Manager of Turkish Aerospace Industries, said: “Thanks to this laboratory, our engineers, who will take part in our domestic and national projects, will join us trained from universities. As Turkish Aerospace Industries, we are now in the kitchen. We continue the importance of training engineers with concrete breakthroughs. Our engineers will be able to gain end-to-end engineering experience in this laboratory, and thus, they will be able to improve themselves and provide added value to major projects.” Kotil also stated that it will provide great convenience in order to ensure coordination in national projects where approximately three thousand engineers work.
Alper Başer, Industrial Software Turkey Director of the company, emphasised the importance of such laboratories for the development of the sector at the opening of the laboratory, where Siemens also provided software support, and stated the following: “The support we provide in the field of education on a national scale will continue in the future as it has been until today. In our sector, we find the contributions of our valuable engineer friends, especially those trained by ITU, important in this sense.”
“It has always been ITU graduates who have contributed to the technical development of our country”
Following Temel Kotil's speech, ITU Rector Prof. Dr. İsmail Koyuncu stated that since the first day they stepped into ITU, they have seen their students as architects, engineers, designers and artists of the future. Koyuncu, who processed the idea of opening doors of opportunity for students, continued his speech as follows: “While raising our students to be the best of the future, of course, we always have this idea in mind: As long as we, as a university or as graduates, pave the way for them and create new doors of opportunity for our students. Each well-educated ITU graduate will shape the future of Turkey in the future, and will carry our country's vision and brand value to the top. As you know, it has always been ITU graduates who have contributed to the technical development of our country, especially during the Republican period, and will continue to do so in the future. We know this very well. Because we have 250 years of experience and knowledge behind us.”
“One of the biggest contributions belongs to Turkish Aerospace Industries”
On the occasion of the inauguration of the laboratory, which reinforces the unity of Turkish Aerospace Industry, one of the most valuable components of the aviation industry of our country, and our University, our Rector evaluated this unity with the following sincere words: “Of course, one of the biggest contributions here belongs to the Turkish Aerospace Industry, which is one of our permanent stakeholders. Since 1973, Turkish Aerospace Industries has been reducing our country's dependence on foreign countries in the aerospace industry, while taking important steps with a domestic and national vision, especially in recent years. Turkish Aerospace Industries has made a great contribution by providing 20 workstations to run the design programmes to be used in our laboratory.’
About Turkish Aerospace Industry:
Turkish Aerospace Industry continues to provide services in the design, development, modernisation, production, integration and life cycle support processes of integrated aerospace industry systems ranging from fixed and rotary wing air platforms to unmanned aerial vehicles and space systems in an open area of 4 million square metres and a closed area of 640 thousand square metres. It is Turkey's technology centre and one of the global players in the aviation, space and defence industries.
