ICAMES (International Cultural Academic Meeting of Engineering Students) is a project week organized by the Engineering Society of Bogaziçi University. Its aim is to gather the engineering students from all around the world and make them study on basic concepts of engineering which will result in, as we assume, scientific data interaction. In addition to its academic side, it also forms cultural interactions between different countries and the universities.
The first ICAMES organization was held between May 6th-14th 1994. The main subject of ICAMES-94 was "Environment" that had five subtopics about the local environment problems of Istanbul like "The problems that Bogaziçi faced with and the solutions to them" which is also a problem of The Balkan Countries and The Black Sea coasted countries. As a result, the university students of seven countries came together and tried to create dynamic solutions to these problems.
Participating universities and countries were;
Technical University of Athens
Universitaria A. Lamaro - E. Pozzani
Polytechnika Lodzka
As the members of Engineering Society, we hosted fifty eight students and seven instructors from these universities for one week.Ten different groups were formed which studied five hours a day on the projects. The participants finally came up with a report of solutions and presented their study. Besides these, we also had some cultural organizations. We had sightseeings in Istanbul at the weekend and organized cultural hours in which the student made presentations about their countries and culture. The expenses, including meals, accommodation and transportation (except flight expenses) were all supported by The Engineering Society. During the organization, the students stayed at the dormitories of Bogaziçi University and the instructors were hosted in guesthouse at Bogaziçi University.