Eren Mert İrez, a Graduate of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of TOBB ETÜ, Was Awarded a Prize by Germany-Based VDE

VDE, established in 1893, which operates through 36,000 staff members, awarded Eren Mert İrez, a graduate of our University, the "Best Thesis Prize" for his master's thesis during the ceremony organized annually for the rewarding of accomplished individuals in the fields of science and technology. İrez has shared his story of winning the prize with us.

"Following my graduation from the undergraduate program of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, TOBB ETÜ; I started searching for a master's program to fulfill my goal of specializing on a specific field. Since I was specifically interested in the oncoming Industry 4.0 and Internet of Things, I ended up attending a master's degree program on embedded systems. Eighteen months after being accepted to SRH University, located in Heidelberg, Germany, I completed my program, ranking first. I wrote my master's thesis at the campus in Duisburg of Thyssenkrupp Steel Europe, the largest steel producer in Europe. The subject matter of my thesis, which took 6 months to write, was the performance of the microstructure, which is currently conducted by human eye at laboratories, by computer by way of image processing, i.e. the automatization of the process.  The mathematical approaches I employed for this project and the C++ and R codes I wrote for this project were appreciated and started to be actually used by Thyssenkrupp. Following my graduation, my thesis was proposed to VDE by the head of my department, where I completed by master's degree program. VDE Association is one of the largest technical-scientific organizations in Europe with some 36,000 members, and the theme of this year's awards was Industry 4.0. During the award ceremony in September 2017, VDE awarded the "Best Thesis Prize" to my thesis, and I was invited to the award ceremony. Currently, I work as an IoT Software Developer for Cassini AG in Düsseldorf. It is my belief that the key to success in master's degree studies and in the professional life is a good undergraduate program education."

We congratulate our graduate student, and wish for his success to be continued.