Mercedes-TGU cooperation
A cooperation project between TAU Computer Engineering and Mercedes Benz was realized with the initiative of Alican Demir, one of our Turkish-German University graduates and currently working at Mercedes Benz Otomotiv Ticaret ve Hizmetler A.Ş.
"I am proud to realize this project that brings together my alma mater and the company I work for. It was a great experience for me to come to the campus that I left 6 months ago as a graduate on behalf of my company. I hope that this cooperation will continue in the coming periods."
Alican Demir, Assistant Director
As the first step of this cooperation, a seminar and introduction day was organized at the beginning of the 2019-2020 academic year at the Turkish-German University. On February 19, Mercedes Benz Executive Board Member and Daimler IT Solutions Center Director Özlem Vidin Engindeniz gave a seminar on "Leading in a Digital Age". In the program, which attracted great interest from TAU students, Gül Emiroğlu, Mercedes Benz Human Resources Group Manager, introduced the company and gave information about recruitment processes.
Within the scope of this collaboration, a software project course was designed and implemented in the 2019-2020 Spring Semester of TAU Computer Engineering in collaboration with Mercedes Benz. In this course, a total of 26 third-year students from Computer Engineering and Mechatronic Systems Engineering departments worked on 5 different projects. Our valuable group mentors, who supported each project group throughout the semester by Mercedes Benz, guided the students by following the progress of the projects through regular weekly meetings. In this way, our students had the opportunity to closely familiarize themselves with the process management methods currently used in the sector.
"We would like to thank our colleagues who participated in such a difficult pandemic process with their careful and devoted work. I sincerely congratulate everyone who provided us with this productive working environment"
Halit Musluoğlu, Business Analytics and Digital Solutions Group Manager
"I believe that we have benefited both personally and as a company from our collaboration with TAU. The outstanding performance of young colleagues despite their remote working conditions, their success in adapting to any environment and their ability to produce results very quickly with creativity have taught us a lot and made us look to the future with more light and hope for our country."
Yavuz Saka, Group Manager, Automobile R&D Informatics Department
Grading was done in the middle and at the end of the semester with collective presentations. All projects were successfully completed and the high satisfaction of our students and group mentors reinforced the intention to continue collaborating for similar courses in the future.
"We are very happy to have had the opportunity to come together with the esteemed professors and students of the Turkish German University within the framework of this cooperation. We listened to the products of the students with great pleasure. We saw great examples of "Project2Product", which we call "Project2Product", which we have recently attached great importance to within the scope of Daimler information technology strategies.
I would like to congratulate all the participating students for their successful work and presentations, and I hope that our cooperation with the Turkish German University will continue to increase in the future."
Özlem Vidin Engindeniz, Mercedes Benz Automotive Executive Board Member and Daimler IT Solutions Center Director
We are happy and proud of the success of our students despite the extraordinary conditions created by the transition to distance education with the pandemic process.
"Our collaboration with the Turkish German University was a very productive and enjoyable experience, despite the move from on-campus to online classrooms. Throughout the semester, the enthusiastic work of my fellow students in the project team gave birth to the idea of a real start-up, giving them a wide range of competencies from simulation and coding to financial analysis, and me a new vision with a great energetic working experience. I would like to congratulate them all for their efforts and thank the school management team for making this possible."
Onur Yiğit, Mercedes me connect Rollout Unit Manager
"In this project course, which brought SDC and TAU together, I had the opportunity to get to know the students and the university environment closely. We completed the semester by seeing and evaluating the software products that our students worked very hard on and created. I think that combining their energy, research and development efforts with our business life experience is a common gain for us. I hope that this cooperation will continue and we will continue to produce new ideas and projects together."
Burcu Bakkaloğlu, IT Applications and Processes Management, Unit Manager
"I am very happy to be able to offer such an opportunity to our students. I would like to extend my sincere thanks to everyone who contributed to the realization of this joint work, especially our group mentors who supported the students throughout the semester despite their busy work schedules, and congratulate our students for their impressive presentations and success."
Canan Yıldız, Head of Computer Engineering Department
