Team Member, ITU Facilis Vehicle Team

September 2016 – March 2020, Istanbul, Turkey

Summary: Contributed to a high‑efficiency student racecar across design, analysis, and manufacturing; led the team in 2020.

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Contributions

The team.

Joined the Shell Eco‑marathon team of Istanbul Technical University in 2016. The team develops highly efficient internal combustion vehicle projects and has participated in Shell Eco‑marathon Europe continental and Turkey challenger‑event competitions since 2012. Conducted the role of Team Manager in my senior year of university.
Team manager in the 2020 Season, management of finances, project time plans, and headcount.
Participated in the Shell Eco‑marathon Europe 2018 and 2019 race events in London, UK.
Conducted structural analysis for the composite monocoque vehicle body of the vehicle, transmission system, and steering system components using Ansys Static Structural and Ansys Composite PrepPost (ACP).

Structural analysis, Ansys.

Composite ply failure checks with Tsai Hill & Max Strain failure criterion (ultimate & fatigue).
Composite interlaminar shear checks due to ply lay-up changes (delamination).

Different stages of production.

Tension test and ply analysis.

Me holding the car body.

Conducted CFD analysis of the body and investigated aerodynamic properties such as drag and lift coefficients for optimization of the body design using OpenFOAM and Ansys Fluent.

OpenFOAM results and mesh.

Participated in designing and manufacturing of an inertial and hysteresis dynamometer for a 35 cm³ gasoline engine in order to validate the engine model and create an engine mapping.

Dynamometer design and hysteresis test setup.