伊赫桑·萨本久奥卢
土耳其阿卜杜拉·古尔大学校长
伊赫桑·萨本久奥卢博士是一位工业工程学学者，现任阿卜杜拉·古尔大学校长，分别于1982年和1984年在中东技术大学获得学士和硕士学位，并于1989年获得威奇托州立大学博士学位。伊赫桑·萨本久奥卢在博士学习期间，曾在波音、必胜客和美国国家卫生研究所工作。在1990年至2013年期间，担任比尔肯特大学工业工程系的全职教授，于2006年担任土耳其ABET认证的第一个工程部门的主席。与此同时，也在美国卡内基梅隆大学和法国法兰西学院(IFMA)担任访问职务。作为一个高度重视大学与产业相结合的人，伊赫桑·萨本久奥卢博士于2010年成立了大学-产业协作中心(USIM)，并担任在土耳其和全球举行的几个工业工程会议和研讨会的会议主席。
İhsan Sabuncuoğlu
Rector of Abdullah Gül University, Turkey
Mr.İhsan Sabuncuoğlu is a Turkish academic in industrial engineering. He is the current rector of Abdullah Gul University. He received his B.S. and M.S degrees from Middle East Technical University, in 1982 and 1984, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree from Wichita State University in 1989.Mr.İhsan Sabuncuoğlu worked for Boeing, Pizza Hut and the National Institute of Health in the United States during his PhD studies. He joined Bilkent University in 1990. Between 1990 and 2013, he was a full time faculty member at Bilkent University Industrial Engineering Department where he became the chairman in 2006. He was the chairman of the first engineering department to be accredited by ABET in Turkey. In the meantime, he held visiting positions at Carnegie Mellon University in the United States, and at Institut Français de Mecanique Avancee (IFMA) in France.As a person who highly gives importance to university-industry collaboration, he established university-industry collaboration center (USIM) in 2010. He also acted as the conference chair in several industrial engineering conferences and workshops that were held in Turkey and worldwide.
