The Girls Who Code event was organized in cooperation with Koç University Women’s Engineers Club and ACM Woman Chapter. 20 female students from Mustafa Kemal Anadolu Lisesi were welcomed for 5 weeks between April 7th and May 6th at Koç University and Computer Engineering students gave lectures on programming in Java. At the end of the program, certificates were presented to participating students.

Congratulations to our faculty member Dr. Erdem Alaca who is the recipient of the 2017 Elginkan Foundation Research and Technology Award for his work on ‘ the development of new generation sensors using nanowire-MEMS integration’.

Congratulations to Dr. Seda Keskin and Prof. Dr. Can Erkey, recipients of the “2017 Koç University Outstanding Faculty President’s Award” and to Dr. Erdem Alaca, recipient of the “”2017 College of Engineering Outstanding Faculty Award”

Congratulations to Dr. Sinem Çöleri Ergen, Associate Professor of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, who is the recipient of the 2017 Research Award from the Mustafa Parlar Foundation.

Associate Professor Alptekin Küpçü, KU Computer Engineering Department, has received the 2017 TUBA/GEBIP Award for his project, “Privacy in Online Social Networks”.

Seyhan Uçar (Computer Science and Engineering, Ph.D., 2017) was awarded the IEEE Türkiye Ph.D. Thesis Award, to which many applications are made and nominated.

The First indigenous heart assist device of Türkiye designed in Koç University was successfully tested on an animal

Chemical and Engineering News featured the recent results by Alper Uzun and his PhD student Melike Babucci as a news item. Their publication appeared in ACS Catalysis. Congratulations to both.

Prof. Ismail Lazoglu has been elected as the Fellow of the CIRP (the International Academy for Production Engineering, “College International pour la Recherche en Productique”).

RML (Robotics and Mechatronics Laboratory) members have received the best poster presentation award at IEEE WHC. Congrugalations to Yasemin Vardar, Aykut İşleyen, Muhammed Khurram Salem, Çağatay Başdoğan for winning the best poster presentation award in IEEE World Haptics Conference 2017, Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany, June 6-9.