11TH PUMP-VALVE CONGRESS WAS HELD

The eleventh National Pump-Valve Congress, of which ITU Mechanical Faculty has been one of the main organizers since it started in 1979, took place this year on 14-15 December 2024 at METU Culture and Congress Center. The main theme of the congress, supported by the Turkish Pump and Valve Industrialists Association (POMSAD) and many local and foreign sectoral associations and federations, was "Water and Human 5.0".

The congress also included an art exhibition titled "Pumps and Valves on the 100th Anniversary of the Republic" and training sessions where current engineering software used by various companies in pump valve design and flow analysis were introduced. The congress also included a session titled "Commemorating our lost values", where the people who shaped the Pump-Valve industry were commemorated.

Prof. Dr. Haluk Karadoğan, Prof. Dr. Kadir Kırkköprü, Prof. Dr. Erkan Ayder, Prof. Dr. Seyhan Uygur Onbaşıoğlu, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Levent Ali Kavurmacıoğlu contributed to the congress, where twenty-eight papers were presented, with their papers and invited speeches.

ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING CONFERENCE TÜRKİYE CONFERENCE WAS HELD

At the Additive Manufacturing Conference Türkiye conference held for the 4th time this year, our ITU Faculty of Mechanical Engineering faculty member Assoc. Emrecan Söylemez contributed as the president of the organization. 95 different presentations were made in the 3-day program with 280 participants. On the last day of the TAMA - Additive Manufacturing Summit program, TÜBİTAK President Mr. Hasan Mandal participated in the conference with his presentation.