January 9th ELAE result code explanations are as follows:

SL (Satisfactory in the ELAE): indicates students who have received the required grade or above in the January 9th ELAE and who have gained the right to start their faculty studies as Spring (irregular) Freshman in the 2017-2018 Spring Semester.

EL: (Exempt from the ELAE): indicates students who are exempt from the January 9th ELAE. These students have already gained the right to start their faculty courses in the 2017-2018 Spring Semester.

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 January 9th ELAE will be informed of their results by their institues.

A Placement Exam will be given to inactive/prepared outside students who want to continue at FDY on the 15th of January at 10 a.m. They should contact the SL Directorate on the 12th of January by 4 p.m. latest.

Please see the link for your ELAE results.

We wish you success in your studies,

The School of Languages Directorate

2017 - 2018 SPRING TERM DORMITORY FEES and PAYMENTS

The dormitory fees for our undergradute and graduate students in the 2017 - 2018 Academic Year Spring Semester are listed below, and are required to be paid to between the dates 2018 January 08 and January 12. Payments may be made in Akbank branches or the Akbank Direkt İnternet online banking application by selecting or specifying 'Sabancı University code 7000754  (function F325)' and specifying “YURT ÖDEMESİ or HOUSING PAYMENT” as payment type.  The system displays your current outstanding payments when provided your given name, family name and student number (please add zeroes to the beginning of the number to complete it to 8 digits, e.g. 00012345), and these amounts may be paid in cash to the bank teller or from an account other than the "Okul Ailem Hesabı" used for tuition fee payments.  Please note that housing fees must not be deposited in the Okul Ailem Hesabı intended for tuition fees .

Dormitory fee payment dates which specified the above are involves the students who are staying dormitory during Fall Semester and will stay on Spring Semester.

The students who want to stay in dormitory on Spring Semester can display their dormitory application result on bannerweb.sabanciuniv.edu at 24th of January, they can make their dormitory fee payment between 24th of January and 29th of January.

Dormitories will be open through the semester break.

We wish you a good holiday.

Dormitory Management

2017 – 2018 Academic Year Spring Semester Dormitory Fees / Per Person (VAT included)

Undergraduate students: 

4 person room (person/term)            3.700 TL

2 person room (person/term)            5.000 TL

Graduate students: 

2 person room (person/term)            5.000 TL

1 person room (person/term)            6.500 TL

Studio room   (person/term)              6.750 TL

Students who assign to dormitories for the first time are required to pay a deposit fee of 1000 TL.

Arts, Social Sciences, Entrepreneurship and Technology (ASSET) Undergraduate Projects is a support program which is open to all Sabancı University undergraduate students who aim to develop innovative projects. ASSET aims to contribute to undergraduate students’ academic and career development and enable students to engage in entrepreneurial projects with a focus on innovation and positive social impact early in their careers.

ASSET’s main focus is innovation and the program covers a variety of fields including natural and social sciences as well as arts with an applied and entrepreneurial approach. ASSET prioritizes cross-disciplinary research and applications which combines technology, social innovation, arts and entrepreneurship.

In addition, ASSET aims to enable undergraduate students to combine academic and non-academic skills and competencies which prepare students for careers in a competitive labor market.

For these purposes, we invite all undergraduate students of Sabancı University to become part of Arts, Social Sciences, Entrepreneurship and Technology (ASSET), a support program for innovative undergraduate projects, through which you can receive a seed fund to build on your creative ideas.

For this purpose, applicants need to submit their project through the application form and must include a preliminary budget and an implementation plan.

Important points about submissions to ASSET Undergraduate Projects:

• Deadline for submissions is January 12, 2018
• You can submit your innovative project individually or as a group. Group projects are encouraged.
• You can work on any topic which has the potential to result in some concrete output, which can be a product, a social innovation or a project that aims at social impact.
• Some examples for topics include but not limited to sustainability, biotechnology, environment, energy, education, disability, materials science, gender, data analysis, knowledge management, conflict resolution, STEM, etc. Interdisciplinary projects are encouraged.
• Projects which will receive seed funding and the amount of funding will be determined by reviewers established by the Evaluation Committee, which will also periodically supervise the selected projects. For projects which do not currently have a supervisor, the Evaluation Committee will assign a project supervisor.
• Projects which are successfully implemented throughout the process of supervision will have the chance to receive support from SUCool.
• You can receive support from Industrial Collaboration and Technology Licensing Office (ILO) regarding your questions on intellectual property processes such as invention disclosures, patent searching, patent / trademark / design applications: fml@sabanciuniv.edu

For further information: suasset@sabanciuniv.edu

Application Form: http://www.sabanciuniv.edu/en/suasset-form

Minister of Science, Industry and Technology Dr. Faruk Özlü revealed the 2017 TÜBİTAK Entrepreneurial and Innovative Universities Index.

Sabancı University named Turkey’s most entrepreneurial and innovative university once again.

The top five of the index are: Sabancı University, Middle East Technical University, Gebze Technical University, Istanbul Technical University and Boğaziçi University.

Students who can take the ELAE  on 9^th January 2018:

• Students whose status is inactive/prepared outside and who have submitted petitions to School of Languages Directorate*
• Students who are using their right to study for a second year at FDY and who have completed the survey on surveymonkey to School of Languages Directorate
• Graduate students who have received approval from their faculties
• Students who are using their right to study for a second year at FDY and who successfully complete R4 and who wish to try for the Freshman English Exemption Exam (FEEE)** 

Location and Times:

WRITING & LISTENING     10.00 – 12:10  
READING                            13:15 – 14:45
LOCATION                          FMAN 1099

For the identification check to be done in time, we ask that students who will take the exam be at the exam hall 15-20 min. before the exam starts and that they bring some official identification which includes their photograph (such as a passport, identification card, driver’s license) with them.

Students should also make sure that they bring a pencil, eraser and any other necessary pieces of equipment with them.

The results of the ELAE will be announced on the external web page of Sabancı University. These results will be announced on Wednesday, January 10th at 9pm.

Graduate students will be informed of their ELAE results by their institues.

Detailed information about the ELAE and a sample of the exam is available at the links below. We recommend that all students who will take the exam check these link.

http://sl.sabanciuniv.edu/students/elae

http://sl.sabanciuniv.edu/students/elae/assessment-exam

* a) Inactive/prepared outside students who want to continue at FDY should give a petition to the School of Languages Directorate by 11th of January 5 pm.

   b) A "Placement Exam" will be given to these students on the 15th  of January at 9 am.

** Students who are in this category need to submit a petition to the SL Directorate by January 8^th, 2018.

We wish you success in the exam.
School of Languages

A project implemented by Sabancı University Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences member Dr. Lütfi Taner Tunç and advised by Dr. Mustafa Ünel received support as part of the TÜBİTAK 1003 - Call for Advanced Machinery Design and Algorithm Development. 

A 36-month project titled "Development of Position Tracking and Vibration Absorbing Systems along the Slideways of Robotic Machining Processes", with Sabancı University Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences member Dr. Lütfi Taner Tunç as implementer, Dr. Mustafa Ünel as advisor, IK4-IDEKO control and dynamics group manager Dr. Jokin Munoa from Spain as foreign adviser, and Modesis Makina Elektronik ve Bilişim Teknolojileri San. ve Tic. Ltd. Şti. as project partner, received support as part of the TÜBİTAK 1003 - Call for Advanced Machinery Design and Algorithm Development.

The objective of the TÜBİTAK Priority Areas R&D Project Support Program (1003) is to support domestic R&D projects within priority areas designated by the National Science, Technology and Innovation Strategy that observe the dynamics of their respective scientific or technological field and have traceable targets.

The project includes work on an innovative, real-time position correction system that significantly increases the slideway position tracking of industrial robots used in machining processes, and a system for absorbing the vibration that occurs on robot chassis during the process. The project work will be conducted on the Integrated Process Technologies Research and Application Center infrastructure within the Composite Technologies Center of Excellence. 

Members of the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences and SUNUM researchers won METU Professor Mustafa Parlar Foundation 2017 Awards. 

Members of the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences and SUNUM researchers won METU Professor Mustafa Parlar Foundation 2017 Awards. 

As part of the METU Professor Mustafa Parlar Foundation 2017 Awards, the Research Encouragement Prize was given to Sabancı University Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences member Dr. Nilay Noyan, the Technology Encouragement Prize was given to SUNUM Researcher Dr. Tolga Sütlü, and another Technology Encouragement Prize was given to the SUTAB (Sabancı University Tissue Ablating Bubbles) Team consisting of Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences members Dr. Ali Koşar, Dr. Asif Sabanovic, Dr. Devrim Gözüaçık and Dr. Mustafa Ünel, SUNUM Researcher Dr. Özlem Kutlu, Hisar Hospital Physician Dr. Sinan Ekici, Yıldız Technical University faculty Dr. Hüseyin Üvet, and Yeni Yüzyıl University faculty Dr. Cenk Kığ.

The METU Professor Mustafa N. Parlar Education and Research Foundation awards prizes every year to recognize the endeavors and certify the competencies of researchers and scientists in all branches of the sciences to encourage their work and motivate younger generations to become involved in science.

We commend all faculty members for their achievements. 

The winners of the fourth Hakan Orbay Research Awards given by the Sabancı University School of Management in honor of faculty member Hakan Orbay who passed away in 2011 were chosen. Winners received their prizes at a ceremony held on December 20, 2017 at SoM 1073.

Introductory remarks to the ceremony were delivered by Sabancı University School of Management Dean Professor Füsun Ülengin. Hakan Orbay’s wife Benan Zeki Orbay also spoke at the ceremony, saying, “This award makes me feel like our family is growing every day."

The recipients of the Hakan Orbay Research Awards were:

• Assistant Professor Semih Üslü from Carey Business School, John Hopkins University with his study "Pricing and Liquidity in Decentralized Asset Markets” in the Young Researcher Category,
• Bilkent University Faculty of Management PhD Candidate Naime Usul for her work titled "Affect-Based Stock Investment Decision: The Role of Affective Self-Affinity”.

The ceremony was followed by lectures on the winning articles.

The jury panel this year consisted of Benan Zeki Orbay from Istanbul Bilgi University, Sabancı University faculty Aziz Şimşir, Eren İnci, İzak Atiyas, Melsa Ararat, Nakiye Boyacıgiller and Yiğit Atılgan, and Koray Deniz Şimşek from Crummer Graduate School of Business, Rollins College. 

About Hakan Orbay:

Hakan Orbay finished the Ankara High School of Science in 1979 and received a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and Physics from Boğaziçi University between 1979 and 1983.  He completed a master's in Electrical Engineering at the University of Calgary in 1986, after which he returned to Turkey and worked in information technologies in the banking sector from 1988 to 1991. Having never lost his interest in academic studies, Orbay went back to the US in 1991 for a PhD in Economics in the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, which he completed in 1995. Orbay was a member of Koç University faculty from 1996 to 1999, when he joined Sabancı University as one of the founding faculty members.  He continued his endeavors in the School of Management until his passing in 2011.

Sabancı University Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences Computer Science and Engineering PhD 2016 graduate Süheyla Çetin Karayumak won the IEEE Turkey PhDDissertation Award.

Süheyla Çetin Karayumak completed her PhD at Sabancı University under the guidance of Gözde Ünal in 2016. She used computer science and machine learning algorithms to develop new mathematical solutions to complex medical imaging problems.

The fast and practical vessel segmentation method Çetin Karayumak developed is being used to map vessel structure from a variety of medical imaging methods. Towards the end of her PhD, Çetin Karayumak became interested in neuroimaging, specifically diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) and brain white matter analysis. Her efforts culminated in a method that enables modeling the asymmetry between white matter fibers, which may be used in diagnosing neurological disorders.

Süheyla Çetin Karayumak joined the Harvard University Medical School's Psychiatric Neuro-imaging Lab as a postdoctoral researcher in November 2016, and continues her work on harmonizing dMRI images obtained from different environments and scanners using machine learning-based techniques.

About the IEEE Turkey PhD Dissertation Award

The IEEE Turkey PhD Dissertation Award is given to outstanding young scientists who have completed their PhDs in a university in Turkey within the last two years in one of the areas of activity of IEEE (The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers).  

Commissioned in September 2016, the Sabancı University Center of Excellence for Functional Surfaces and Interfaces (EFSUN) published the activity report for its first year.

Click here to view the EFSUN 2016-2017 Activity Report.

EFSUN is one of the few centers of excellence in Turkey authorized by the Council for Higher Education and ratified in the Official Journal. It is also the only center dedicated to nanodiagnostics in Turkey.

The mission of the center is to bring together outstanding researchers to create high-impact research outputs that focus on the science and technology required for effective and original nanodiagnostics. The center hopes to become a center of attraction for high-quality researchers worldwide through its high-impact research outputs.

The center was established by 5 scientists and 26 other scientists joined over a short while. Contributing members are world-class researchers who hold various coveted national and international awards.  As of the end of 2017, 43 PhD candidates, 32 graduate students and 9 postdoctoral researchers benefit from the motivating and cooperative environment of the center.

As a result of the cooperation and research undertaken in the center, more than 90 papers were published in upscale journals, 10 joint patent applications were made, and 3 companies were founded in 2016 and 2017. The center also received support and grants upowards of TL 25 million from reputable sources.