Instructor Murat Sever Wins the 1st Prize in the Basaksehir Innovation Contest

Our part time instructor Murat Sever wins the 1st prize in the 9th annual Başakşehir Living Lab Innovation Contest in the “Academic” category.

Murat Sever is a PhD student in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, working with Prof. Bülent Tavlı. He is a lead software engineer at Aselsan Inc. He is also a part time instructor in the course ELE 361L Communication Systems Laboratory, in the Summer and Fall 2022 semesters.

In order to provide the students a hands-on experience and solidify he concepts that they learn in the courses, Murat Sever integrated RTL-SDR software defined radios in the coursework. Through several lab sessions, students had chance to analyze, demodulate and decode real communication signals . Moreover, they gained experience in software and applications such as GNU Radio, Git, Python, Spyder Notebook and Matlab. RTL-SDR radios are handed to the students from the university budget.

We congratulate Murat Sever fort his achievement and thank our university for financing and providing this technological facility.