Sabancı University won a number of prizes in the "Woman Technology Leaders Competition" held by Microsoft to recognize women working on technology in Turkey. Nominees for the 9 awards included a Sabancı University student, and the awards were presented at a ceremony on Wednesday, June 6, 2018 at the Microsoft Turkey office.

Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences Computer Science and Engineering final year student İpek Ganiyusufoğlu was a finalist in the “Emerging Technology Stars” category. Winners were FENS faculty member Esra Erdem in the “Woman Leader Making a Difference with New Technologies” category, and Sabancı University Vice President of Research and Development Şirin Tekinay in the “Woman Instructor of the Year” category. 

FENS faculty member  Esra Erdem won her award with the physiotherapy project she developed using artificial intelligence and robotic systems.  The Woman Leader Making a Difference with New Technologies category is designed to recognize women who make a difference with the technology solutions they develop, and lead successful projects. 

The Woman Instructor of the Year Award won by Vice President of Research and Development Şirin Tekinay with her Holistic Engineering Education project recognizes woman faculty members who make significant contributions to the transformation of Turkey to an information-producing society rather than an information-consuming society, pave the way for the education of young generations and a qualified workforce, and make an impression on the society with their contributions. Şirin Tekinay supports education and research through her efforts to rethink engineering education in a holistic perspective that brings science, technology, art, design and entrepreneurship together with a vision to disseminate innovation beyond higher education and into primary and secondary schools, ultimately achieving a leap in society's access to technology.

June 5th ELAE result code explanations are as follows:

SL (Satisfactory in the ELAE): indicates students who have received the required grade or above in the June 5th ELAE.

EL: (Exempt from the ELAE): indicates students who are exempt from the June 5th ELAE.

UL (Unsatisfactory in the ELAE): indicates students who have not been able to obtain the required grade in the ELAE.

NA (Non-attendance): indicates students who did not attend the exam and is equivalent to a “UL” grade.

Grade bands are as below:

Postgraduate candidates who have taken the June 5th ELAE will be informed of their results by their faculties.

Students who hold their right to study at FDY Summer School as a result of their end of course results and/or ELAE results will automatically be registered to the Summer School.

Those students who hold their right to study at School of Languages Summer School but do not wish to study at the Foundation Development Year Programme have to complete “Application Form to Study Outside FDY”, and hand in the form to the School of Languages Admin Office by 12:00 on 8th June, 2018. A photo of the completed form can also be sent to aslituan@sabanciuniv.edu on the condition that the original forms are submitted at a later date.

Click for the “Application Form to Study Outside FDY”

Please see the link for your ELAE results.

We wish you success in your studies,

The School of Languages Directorate

The countdown is on for the 2018 Graduation Class. Post your best wishes for them and be a part of the excitement for the Commencement on June 21 and 22...

For further information about Commencement Days please visit commencement.sabanciuniv.edu

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Attention to Students who will Apply Within the Scope of Amnesty Law, 7143

Students, who would like to continue their education in our University benefiting from “Amnesty Law numbered 7143” within the scope of provisional Article 78th added to Turkish Higher Education Law with the number 2547, are required to apply to Directorate of Student Resources with a petition and criminal record latest by September 18, 2018.

Official Gazette, with the law, can be accessed via the link below:

http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/eskiler/2018/05/20180518-3.htm

Directorate of Student Resources

"Industry-Oriented Projects" is an example of university-industry partnership where industrial companies implement projects in association with Sabancı University to address their key priorities.

Started in the Sabancı University Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences in October 2016, Industry-Oriented Projects (IOP) achieved 30% growth in its second year with the partnership of industrial companies in a variety of sectors.

The program is carried out by 4th-year undergraduate students of Sabancı University as part of their compulsory "Graduation Project" with the participating company and Sabancı University faculty acting as advisors. Sabancı University and partnering organizations implement the project together. 

Participants in the 2018 Industry-Oriented Projects included automotive design and components, information, electronics, plastics, chemistry, food, personal & home care and cleaning products and durable consumer goods  companies such as Airties, Aksa Motor, Doğuş Bilgi İşlem ve Teknoloji, Evyap, Festo, Ford Otomotiv, Lostar Bilgi Güvenliği, Mutlu Akü, Procter & Gamble, Ravago Petrokimya, Siemens, Unilever, and Yongatek.  78 undergraduate students who worked in 24 different projects in 13 participating institutions shared the outputs of their industry-university partnership projects. 

The outputs of the Sabancı University Industry-Oriented Projects designed to foster a new dimension in university-industry partnerships were shared at the 2nd Spring Reception held on Tuesday, May 15, 2018 at the Sabancı University Nanotechnology Research and Application Center (SUNUM). Guests included executives from over thirty companies in various sectors. 

Introductory remarks were made by Sabancı University Acting President Professor Zehra Sayers, Sabancı University Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences Acting Dean Professor Canan Atılgan, and Sabancı University Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences Member and Industry-Oriented Projects founder Professor Yusuf Menceloğlu. Commemorative plaques were presented to project partners after the remarks.  The event continued with a cocktail. 

Sabancı University Acting President Professor Zehra Sayers said, “One of the most valuable assets that Sabancı University can provide you is the habit of people from different disciplines coming together to work, and approach problems from different angles. Another important asset of our university is its small, non-hierarchical scale. This means that we are more open and able to communicate with you. Finally, and I mean not to boast, but both our faculty and our students are highly talented people with open minds who can view things from different perspectives. Our professors are masters of the multifaceted approach. Our students are getting there under their guidance. I believe that they will make great contributions to their institutions. Thank you for being here. Our objective is to cooperate with you and expand our work.”

Sabancı University Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences Dean Professor Canan Atılgan: “Bringing universities and industries together is a tough job. We are not eager to start with large projects, because the difficulties that may arise in the partnership of institutions with different ways of doing business may be unpredictable. Industry-Oriented Projects do not harbor such risks - in fact, they provide a solution. A small-scale project is the perfect opportunity for us to get to know each other and develop a common working culture. The bridges built by our students makes a pathway to collective thinking on what else we can do and what larger things we can develop." 

 Sabancı University Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences Member and Industry-Oriented Projects founder Professor Yusuf Menceloğlu noted: "There are actually three stakeholders here: the industry, students, and us faculty members. Our purpose is to raise good students. The students have a responsibility to become good engineers and be of benefit to society. Meanwhile, the third stakeholder, the industry, conducts the projects they need with a university that cares. We collaborate as a team to achieve these objectives. Since this is a tripartite win-win situation, the number of projects grows year by year." 

Students of the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences had poster presentations throughout the event and said that their work with industrial companies enabled them to gain firsthand experience of professional life and was an important step in their careers. 

The IOP cooperation model provides many benefits to all parties. 

The Sabancı University-industry partnership program enables industrial companies to engage in research projects that require considerable time, human resources and technical ability by cooperating with Sabancı University. Meanwhile, partnering industrial companies are relieved of bureaucratic hurdles and can freely utilize the state-of-the-art research laboratories at Sabancı University in projects conducted by students and coordinated by their advisors. The fourth-year students involved in the project comprise a useful talent pool for prospective employers who find an opportunity to know and train their potential colleagues. One key advantage of the program is that it provides specific and innovative solutions to specific problems, and converts ideas to product. 

The IOP process in a nutshell

Interested companies may submit projects in an engineering field of their choice two times a year. All submissions are assessed by a jury panel composed of faculty members. Projects initiated in the fall semester are be implemented and concluded from October to May. Projects initiated in February continue into the next academic year and are concluded in December.

Each industry project has at least two advisors: one appointed by the company, and the other chosen among Sabancı University faculty. Students work on the design phase of the project for the first three months while attending seminars and group work in sustainable development, economics, environmental issues, producibility, ethics, health, social and political issues, project management, risk and change management, intellectual property rights, innovation and entrepreneurship, and work health and safety. Students are expected to utilize their training in their projects. 

Sabancı University stated that Industry-Oriented Projects would continue, and called for new submissions to sop@sabanciuniv.edu. 

For more information about Industry-Oriented Projects, please visit sop.sabanciuniv.edu.

Reports published as part of the "Dialogue and Sustainable Conflict Resolution in the Kurdish Question and Polarization in Turkey" Project conducted by the Conflict Resolution and Mediation Program of the Sabancı University Istanbul Policy Center (IPC) were revealed to the public at a press conference. 

The final report of the project presented policy recommendations for overcoming polarization and improving social harmony, while warning policymakers against "using anti-terrorism methods to stifle civil liberties". 

For more information:

http://ipc.sabanciuniv.edu
http://twitter.com/ipc_ipm
http://www.facebook.com/IstanbulPolicyCenter

We are happy to announce our full day event entitled with ‘Connect4Tech’ that will be held on 31 May 2018 Thursday at Sabanci University.

The full-day event covers 'The Magic of patent information for R&D' and 'Inspiring Commercialization Stories' will be organized in Sabanci University Nanotechnology Research and Application Center (SUNUM).

Connect4Tech is organized by Industry Collaboration and Technology Licensing Office

Connect4Tech is a unique event that you can learn;

-       What is the pathway of invention disclosure? etc. Invention assessment and patent strategies…

-       How can you use patent information for your R&D projects?

-       What are the main approaches and routes for successful commercialization of research results?

-       And inspiring commercialization stories from outstanding entrepreneur researchers who have already commercialized their invention.

You will also have a chance to meet and connect with your colleagues who are active in R&D and commercialization network.

You are welcome to participate in our event. Participation to Connect4Tech is limited with only 50 seats. Please click to register to save your place.

Connect4Tech is free of charge event.

Date: 31 May 2018, Thursday / 09.00-16.30

Venue: Sabanci University Nanotechnology Research and Application Center (SUNUM)/Tuzla, Istanbul

The Sabancı University Gender and Women's Studies Center of Excellence (SU Gender) continued its series of international conferences with the Gender and Education Conference. The keynote speaker of the conference was Shahrzad Mojab, a professor of adult education, social development, women and gender at the University of Toronto.

The three-day “Gender and Education Conference” in the series of annual international conferences held by SU Gender brought together subject matter experts from Turkey and the world. The conference sought ways to reinforce the place of the gender perspective in education, and generated ideas on improving the visibility of best practices on gender equality and creative expression.

Emre Şahiner, a third-year student of the Sabancı University Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences Computer Science and Engineering program, designed an application that matches colors to emotional states for poetry lovers.

The premise of the "Laf" application developed by Şahiner is to break stereotypical thoughts surrounding poetry and introduce it to the daily lives of people. The application enables users to read existing works of poetry and write their own poems. The application describes each poet and poem by a color. Then, the application suggests poets or poems depending on what color the user is feeling that day.

The color parameter is used to tag poets and their works, and the user can choose a color that reflects how they are feeling at the moment to paint the entire interface to that color. Laf tracks the color choices and poetry reading movements of its users to generate meaningful data about the user over time. The later choices and daily poetry suggestions of the user are then shaped according to these analyses.

 Sabancı University provides support to Laf

 The “Laf” application is supported by SU-ASSET, the Sabancı University program to empower undergraduate students who seek to develop innovative and creative projects. Şahiner said that he was planning to improve the color choice and analysis algorithm of the application with the SU-ASSET funding.

Laf became available on App Store and Google Play in January, and soon climbed to 24th place in its category.

Please click to below links to download app, 

App Store -> https://goo.gl/1vP5Nf  

Google Play -> https://goo.gl/iM1KiG  

Instagram  -> www.instagram.com/laf.official