Üsküdar University, in collaboration with the Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, and the Career Center Department, organized a breakfast event. Within the scope of the event, department alumni came together. Prof. Dr. Osman Çerezci, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, who attended the event, emphasized the importance of dialogue established with alumni.
The breakfast program, held in the dining hall of Üsküdar University Central Campus, was attended by Prof. Dr. Osman Çerezci, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences; Prof. Dr. Mehmet Savsar, Head of the Department; Assistant Professor Dr. Münire Berna Beşkese, from the Department's academics; Assistant Professor Dr. Şemsi Kamile Canbay; Research Assistant Fatma Serra Çiftçi; Remziye Çopur, Head of the Career Center Department; Tayfun Gözler, President of the Alumni Association; and alumni students.
Representatives from the Mentor Club also participated. Club President Tuğba Güzel, Vice President Semra Sude Erüstündağ, and members Tolga Özcan and Emre Ekmen attended the event.
Prof. Dr. Osman Çerezci: “I believe in the importance of dialogue with alumni”
Prof. Dr. Osman Çerezci, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, extended his thanks to everyone who attended the event. Çerezci stated, “Such events serve as a source of motivation for us in the targeted studies as a faculty. We have full faith that our alumni will achieve great things in the future. It will make us happy to visit them to witness and congratulate them on the successes they will achieve by showcasing their knowledge and potential. With nearly 50 years of experience, I can say that I believe in the importance of dialogue established with alumni. All kinds of collaborative work will lead to great projects. Such efforts are important and will be a step forward on our path.”
Prof. Dr. Mehmet Savsar: “We can contribute with quality-oriented studies”
Prof. Dr. Mehmet Savsar, Head of the Industrial Engineering Department, expressed his satisfaction with the participation in the first-ever breakfast event and spoke about the academic changes made after 2020. Savsar said, “We made the necessary changes to the curriculum to ensure our students undergo a higher quality education process and expanded our pool of elective courses. We took significant steps in the accreditation process, which we have been preparing for nearly a year, and this was an important step for both our university and our alumni. During this period, we also formed an external stakeholders committee and received the necessary support from our alumni students. Likewise, we receive feedback from our alumni on how we can improve existing quality. The alumni surveys we conducted are among the steps that support graduation projects, and our alumni may also be invited in the future to benefit from their experiences. This type of mentoring work can also contribute to the development of our current students. We can also support our alumni in their research and projects. We can coordinate with their workplaces and contribute with quality-oriented work.”
Assistant Professor Dr. Münire Berna Beşkese: “We value the communication between alumni and academics”
Assistant Professor Dr. Münire Berna Beşkese said, “We are proud of the successes our students achieve after their education, and the communication between our department alumni and our academics is very important to us. For this reason, we believe that this event will be a beginning and will continue.”
Assistant Professor Dr. Şemsi Kamile Canbay: “The combination of theory and practice is a distinct strength”
Assistant Professor Dr. Şemsi Kamile Canbay stated in her speech, “Maintaining contact with our alumni students and transferring their field experiences to students is important for the integration of theory and practice, and it means a distinct strength.”
Emphasis placed on the importance of participation in sectoral events
Remziye Çopur, Head of the Career Center Department, drew attention to the Career Center's activities throughout the year. Çopur emphasized the importance for students to participate in sectoral events even after their university graduation.
Tayfun Gözler, President of the Alumni Association, provided information about the association's activities and touched upon membership procedures. Gözler mentioned the importance of alumni becoming members of the association.
Halil Yılmaz, an Üsküdar University alumnus and external stakeholder, stated: “We thank you for this event. Upon arriving here, we realized we missed our student life. Meeting with friends we haven't seen for a long time made us very happy. We also had the opportunity to meet friends who are in working life.”
Mentor Club President Tuğba Güzel said, “When we heard about the event, we wanted to participate because seeing club members and alumni together and listening to their experiences was important for the student-alumni mentor relationship we aim to establish. We believe that our alumni will serve as a bridge in developing students' personal networks. We aim to meet them and conduct discussions that will continue our collaboration.”
The event concluded with a group photo.