 He also had the opportunity to expand his research in economic policy with use of the supercomputer at Berkeley Laboratories.He has been the initiator and director of numerous major projects including development of Turkey's first National Energy Plan, the Mass Housing Project (which led to a value-added of $45 billion while creating 1.8 million units of housing and doubling Turkey's GNP growth rate over eight years) and the Turkish Quality Movement.The Mass Housing Project won a Franz Edelman Prize by the U.S. Institute of Management Sciences in 1988.