BEGEV
bursa educATIoN IMPROVEMENT FOUNDATION
INDUSTRIAL DESIGN EDUCATION CENTER
 

In 1999, Original board of BEGEV Foundation, which aimed to establish a vocational collegiate school and a foundation university to Bursa, had meet with the Administrative Board of Bursa Industrialists’ and Businessmen Association (BUSIAD), whose aim was to establish a school of design. Both institutions started to work together for the purpose of their common intention.

With the contribution of institutions and volunteer businessmen, they decided to bring in professional education courses, which was the first step towards their goal. They cooperated with the Administration of Technical Education for Men (Ministry of Education) and signed a protocol for common education. Unison of Craftsmen and Artisans, gave support by offering the 1200-meter square empty space of their building which is located in Besevler Industrial Estate.  

Bursa, an important industry center of our country, had finally acquired its “Industrial Design Education Center”, through the organization, which BEGEV and BUSIAD had conducted together. The center had opened its doors and began its duty on Tuesday, May 29, 2001 with the participation of our ministers.

The aim of the Education Center is to give technical support to Bursa industry and to help young people who wishes to keep in step with the age of information and shape their future by using advanced technology, while learning a profession or improving their existed professions.

With this aim, the center is doing the following studies:

   1) Upon getting the liable opinion of Ministry of Education, establishing any degree of private education  institutions that are bounded to the Center and offering diplomas and certificates to students,

     2) Organizing national and international courses, seminars, conferences and conventions in accordance with its aim, and giving instruments of accession,

    3) Establishing partnerships and collaborating with private or official educational institutions which are either domestic or abroad.

     4) Producing and publishing books, brochures, magazines, tapes, computer programs, and movies in accordance with its aim.

     5) Preparing new education programs which keep pace with the booming technology,

     6) Training instructors and offering consultancy services in the field of education,

    7) Constituting laboratories and utilizing them in order to maintain the technical education and technical services,

      8) Establishing an archive and a library which will support any kind of education,

      9) Making research and development,

  10) Procuring collaboration between other professional education institutions, universities and industrial societies in Bursa.

OUR ACTIVITIES:

 Education Center sums up its studies under three main headings:
 Educations,Technical Services and Join to Projects.

 I-                             EDUCATIONS:

Computer aided metal sheet MOLD design program:

The aim of this program is to give the education of MOLD design on behalf of the needs of metal sheet MOLDING sector, by using the most advanced education technologies and appliances.

Program contains classes like; Engineering Drawing, MOLD, IBM based Catia programming.

Faculty consists of educators from technical educational institutes who are specialized in their professions.

Computer aided program for Weaving Dobby, Jacquard and Pattern Design

The aim of this program is to have participants reach a level where they can make their own designs by integrating the art and technology interactions via application. Participants construe all kinds of fabrics, filaments, woven and dyeing-printing processes from a technical approach. Program contains classes such as; Study of General Design, Study of General Textile, Structure of Fabric Studies, and Computer aided analysis of Dobby and Jacquard

fabrics, and Design Courses with Ned Graphics computer programs.

Faculty consists of educators from technical educational institutes and universities, who are specialized in their professions.

Computer Aided Confection Pattern Design Program:

This programs aim is to train ready-to-wear business oriented stylists who are well grounded for techniques of designing, collection preparing, pattern preparing, sewing and production.  

Program includes the fallowing courses; Pattern Preparing and Model Application, Computer based Pattern Preparing, Size-grading, Template Preparing and Fabric Layering  (using Gerber Accumark computer program) Applied Sewing Techniques, General Textile, and Fashion Drawing.

Automation S7-200 PLC and Logo Education Program:

After completing this course, participants will have knowledge about S7-200 PLC, they will have the ability to create and install PLC oriented programs, and follow the operating program on a computer screen. Furthermore, they will be able to get Back-up, which is necessary for service personnel, and do their modification processes over the program.

Training is given by the instructors from Siemens Co..

CNC Operator Education Program:

A CNC Operator should very well acknowledge the CNC machines that are widely used in metal sheet sector and also know the characteristics of the cutters that are used in CNC Machines and be able to make correct decisions when choosing them. Plus, he or she should know how to operate the CAD-CAM Programming and NC codes, which are applied in these machines.

Program includes classes like; CNC Technology, Material Information’s, Technology of Cutting Devices, Engineering Drawing, and CNC Applications.

Faculty consists of educators from technical educational institutes who are specialized in their professions..

 Participants in BEGEV Industrial Design Education Center;

1-  Receive an education programs and take courses that are prepared by the employees of the companies, which they decide by considering the demands and needs of the sector and industrialists.

2-  Can choose from two different types of schedules that are prepared for both; the group of new learners and ones that are changing professions OR participants who desire to improve their skills in their existing professions,

3-  Get their profession trainings by using computer programs,

4-  Learn Quality Assurance System as well,
 

 5- Have education from faculty members, who are specialized in their
professions,

6- Pay at least two visits to different firms, which are related to their
careers,

7- Have the opportunity to chat with businessmen, who are  experienced
in the field of their professions,

8- Meet the International Patent Cooperation Union (IPC) members and
participate in the following conferences: “What is Design”, “Difficulties 
that Occur During Design Process”

9- Participate in the seminar titled: “Techniques of Finding a Job and Preparing a Resume”, in order to increase their chances to find a job,

10- Obtain a certificate of achievement, which is approved by Ministry of Education and BEGEV Industrial Design Education Center,

12- Use their own computers, which are assigned for each participant throughout the course and find broad areas for practicing on their professions.

13- Study in air-conditioned classrooms together with no more than 15 students
 

SUMMARY OF OUR EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES:From the date of foundation, (May 29,2001, May 10, 2006), BEGEV Industrial Design Education Center had opened 79 courses in total. 24 of which provide new professions to unqualified participants, and 55 programs, which assist participants to improve their skills in their professions. In these programs, 1196 students in total; 386 from Metal Sheet MOLD Designing, 289 from Textile Dobby-Jacquard Pattern Designing, 234 from Confection Pattern Designing, 74 from Automation, 30 from Quality Controlling and 183 from CNC Operating, had successfully completed their education. %13 of these participants were already students of other education institutions. Remaining %87 were either employees of various companies or young people without jobs or professions.

 
II-        OUR TECHNICAL SERVICES: 

Bursa Education Improvement Foundation, Industrial Design Education Center has provided Bursa Industry with 62 technical services since the day it was founded. (May 01, May 06). These technical services include patterning of sewed products and archetype sewing, pattern analysis, modeling, size-grading, template preparing and fabric layering, digit and template output, special costume designing and sewing, filing and template layouts for drawings of flattery covers.

 
III-       PARTICIPATION THE PROJECTS:

                A)    Corporation Projects

 1-“Vocational Education of the Trainable Handicapped Citizens and Facilitating the Employment” Project 

(December 2003)This project is a corporation pilot project that is prepared with the aim of training the handicapped citizens for professions in terms of their interests and qualities for the labor market, facilitating and improving the employment, and providing a progress in their professions.

This Project is realized with the corporation of Bursa Education Improvement Foundation Industrial Design Education Center (BEGEV), Bursa Metropolitan Municipality Local Agenda 21 Working Group, Handicapped Platform, Bursa Industrialists and Businessmen Association (BUSIAD), Bursa Metropolitan Municipality and Uludag University Faculty of Medicine; Department of Sports Medicine

.

2-“ Design and Technology Improvement Center” Project

This is a Design and Technology Improvement Project that has started with the coordination of Governor of Bursa Oguz Kagan Koksal, in order to make a contribution to the technical education in Bursa (10 December 2004). Administration of Demirtas Organized Industrial Zone (DOSAB) has allocated 38 thousand square meters of ground for the project. Although the building is adopted, planned and projected by DOSAB and Demirtas Industrialist Organization, BEGEV will be in charge of operating the Center. The Corporation Protocol of “Design and Technology Improvement Center” is in the preparation stage.
The construction of the Design and Technology Improvement Center will start with the groundbreaking ceremony, which will be performed in December. According to the plans, it will be completed by the year 2005. Nowadays, the qualities and quantities of education in terms of advanced technology, which thought to be fulfilled in the Education Center, are being planned

Programs and courses in “Design and Technology Improvement Center” which will be established in Demirtas Organized Industrial Zone, (a zone that contains 302 industrial companies), will be formed again with the cooperation of industrial employees.

Under this goal, specifications of tasks to be done are as follows:

     a) Choosing the professions that will best fit the industry, providing young people with the education which is demanded and created by the industrialists,

      b) Providing design and laboratory support for industrialists,

     Planning and conducting shared tasks with European Union and World Bank.

 
B)    EUROPEAN UNION AND WORLD BANK PROJECTS

   1-Privatization and Social Support Project, accommodated together with the World Bank, Bursa Education Improvement Foundation, and Confederation of Turkish Trade and Privatization Administration

(July 2002 – June 2004)The project has been held under the World Bank and Privatization and Social Support Project, mediated by the Bursa City Administration of Confederation of Turkish Trade. BEGEV Industrial Design Education Center took part in the employment guaranteed manpower-training bids, which were arranged by World Bank and Privatization Administration. 

Between the dates 07.20.2002 and 06.18.2004, BEGEV Industrial Design Education Center has trained 286 students and helped them to become employed through courses like Computer aided Metal Sheet MOLD Designing, Computer aided Weaving Dobby-Jacquard Pattern Designing, and Computer aided Confection Pattern Designing, Quality Controlling and CNC Operating. This program has ended. The total cost of the project was approximately 367.748 $.

2- Strengthening the Vocational Education and Training System in Turkey:(SVET):

(March 2004) SVET Project is a European Union project that will cost about 25 million Euros. The project is organized for providing supplies for 75 to 100 pilot educational institutes, which will take part during the process of modernizing and adaptation of vocational education system. Bursa Education Improvement Foundation (BEGEV) has participated in this project and the project has been earned.

This project will provide BEGEV, with contribution of supplies in the areas of Confection, Machinery Technologies and Information Technologies.

As a pilot institution, a manager, an assistant manager, and a training coordinator from BEGEV is participating the project’s trainings.

3- European Union Donation Plan of New Opportunities Project :

(September 2004)Bursa Education Improvement Foundation (BEGEV) has joined to "New Opportunities Program" and has won which is supported by European Union Comission and presented by Turkey Job Establishment.

The objectives of this project are; providing profession trainings to young unemployed people, choosing areas of what the industry of Bursa require, turning these unemployed people into qualified employees, setting the basis for new investments and bring an end to the unemployment problem. Total budget of the project is 245.778 Euro. The project operations was started.

The partners of BEGEV in the New Opportunities Project are: Bursa Industrialists’ and Businessmen Association (BUSIAD), Governorship of Bursa, M. Kemal Coskunoz Anatolia Technical School of Industry, Chess Management Systems and Production Maintenance Facilities and International Patent Union.