RESEARCH LABORATORIES

:: BUFAIM - Flexible Automation and Integrated Manufacturing Systems Laboratory

The aim of BUFAIM Laboratory is to realize a flexible manufacturing environment where research on modern manufacturing planning and control techniques, flexible automation concepts and their integration issues can be conducted. The model factory in BUFAIM provides a reconfigurable infra-structure for implementing the on-going research and presenting it to academia and industry. The model factory comprises of three robotic cells representing several automation concepts including machine-vision, an Automated Storage and Retrieval System, a free-ranging Automated Guided Vehicle and a closed-loop conveyor. All the software used to run the system is developed by BUFAIM student researcher teams in a modular, reusable and expandable fashion with an understanding of continuous improvement. While BUFAIM is mainly a graduate research laboratory, educating interested undergraduate students is another goal pursued by means of a number of elective courses and graduation projects.

:: MMS - Manufacturing Management Systems Laboratory

MMS aims to make the state-of-the-art ERP software available to BU-IE students. MMS also carries out and supports research in Production Management Systems and Supply Chain Management Systems. With increasing merge of Supply Chain Management and e-Business practices, MMS Lab. carries out research on e-Business, particularly on intelligent agents and electronic marketplaces.

:: SESDYN - Socio-Economic System Dynamics Research Group Laboratory

The main goal of SESDYN studies is to model, analyze and improve strategic socio-economic management problems, from a "Dynamic Systems" perspective. Socio-economic problems that are either specific to Turkey or of universal nature are modelled and analyzed using systems thinking and dynamic computer simulation.

:: QFRG - Quantitative Finance Research Group

The Quantitative Finance Research Group's vision is to be an internationally recognised research group in the field of quantitative finance. The research done for thesis preperation also helps our students to become qualified employees in the Turkish financial sector.

:: ErgoLab - Ergonomics Laboratory

The mission of the Ergonomics Laboratory at Boðaziçi University is to conduct scholarly research in ergonomics, the study of work and the efficiency and safety of human-machine systems, while training students to become the research scientists and ergonomics/safety practitioners of tomorrow.