Industrial Engineering graduates came together for a Sunday breakfast…

A breakfast event was organized in cooperation with the Department of Industrial Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences at Üsküdar University and the Career Center. As part of the event, department graduates came together. Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences Prof. Osman Çerezci, who attended the event, emphasized the importance of maintaining dialogue with alumni.

The breakfast event, held in the dining hall of Üsküdar University Main Campus, was attended by Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences Prof. Osman Çerezci, Head of Department Prof. Mehmet Savsar, department faculty members Asst. Prof. Münire Berna Beşkese, Asst. Prof. Şemsi Kamile Canbay, Research Assistant Fatma Serra Çiftçi, Director of the Career Center Remziye Çopur, President of the Alumni Association Tayfun Gözler, 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. Osman Çerezci: “I believe in the importance of establishing dialogue with alumni”

Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences Prof. Osman Çerezci extended his thanks to everyone who attended the event. Çerezci said, “Such events become sources of motivation for us in achieving the faculty's goals. We have full confidence that our graduates will achieve great things in the future. It would make us happy to witness and congratulate their successes as they demonstrate their knowledge and potential. With nearly 50 years of experience, I can say that I believe in the importance of maintaining dialogue with our alumni. Any kind of collaboration can lead to meaningful projects. Such activities are important and will serve as steps for us to move forward.”

Prof. Mehmet Savsar: “We can contribute with quality-focused initiatives”

Head of the Department of Industrial Engineering Prof. Mehmet Savsar expressed his satisfaction with the participation in the first-ever breakfast event and discussed academic changes implemented since 2020. Savsar said, “We made necessary changes to the curriculum to ensure our students go through a higher quality education process and expanded our pool of elective courses. We have taken significant steps in the accreditation process, which we have been preparing for over a year. This has been an important step for both our university and our alumni. During this period, we also established an external stakeholders committee and received necessary support from our alumni. Similarly, we receive feedback from our alumni on how we can further improve quality. The graduate surveys we conduct are steps that support senior projects, and in order to benefit from their experience, our alumni may also be invited in the future. Such mentoring efforts can contribute to the development of our current students. We, in turn, can support our alumni in their research and projects. We can coordinate with the companies where they work and contribute through quality-focused initiatives.”

Asst. Prof. Münire Berna Beşkese: “We value communication between alumni and faculty”

Asst. Prof. Münire Berna Beşkese said, “We are proud of the success our students show after the education they receive, and the communication between our alumni and faculty is very important to us. For this reason, I believe this event will be the beginning and will continue.”

Asst. Prof. Şemsi Kamile Canbay: “Combining theory with practice is a unique strength”

Asst. Prof. Şemsi Kamile Canbay stated in her remarks, “Staying in contact with our graduates and transferring their field experience to students is important in terms of combining theory with practice, and this is a unique strength.”

The importance of participating in sectoral events was emphasized

Director of the Career Center Remziye Çopur highlighted the Career Center’s annual activities and emphasized the importance for students to continue participating in sectoral events even after graduation.

President of the Alumni Association Tayfun Gözler provided information about the association’s activities and addressed the membership process. Gözler mentioned the importance of alumni becoming members of the association.

Üsküdar University graduate and external stakeholder Halil Yılmaz said, “Thank you for this event. We realized how much we missed our student years when we came here. It made us very happy to reunite with friends we had not seen for a long time. We also had the opportunity to meet friends who are currently in professional life.”

Mentor Club President Tuğba Güzel: “When we heard about the event, we wanted to attend because seeing alumni together with club members and listening to their experiences was important for the student-alumni mentoring relationship we aim to establish. We believe that our alumni can act as bridges in helping students develop their personal networks. We aim to continue our cooperation and hold further meetings.”

The event concluded with a group photo.

Üsküdar News Agency (ÜNA)