📍 Venue: Yalova University Mehmet Okul Congress and Culture Center
📅 Date: June 27, 2025, Friday
🕓 Time: 4:00 PM
🎙 Speakers:
Rector Prof. Dr. Mehmet Bahçekapılı
Dean Prof. Dr. Fehime Jülide Hızal Yücesoy
Faculty Valedictorian: Buse Okumuş (Department of Industrial Engineering)
Yalova University’s Faculty of Engineering proudly bid farewell to its 2024–2025 graduates with great enthusiasm and pride. The stage was magnificently set, the lights were on, and the applause filled the hall.
🎓 This ceremony was not an end—but a march into the future of science.
Each step on stage echoed years shaped by knowledge, sleepless nights, and academic discipline.
🎤 Our Rector and Dean delivered visionary speeches that set the tone for the evening.
Every sentence became a compass, every smile a page.
👏 We extend our heartfelt thanks to all academic and administrative staff, especially our Dean Prof. Dr. Fehime Jülide Hızal Yücesoy.
✨ One of the most emotional moments was the heartfelt, hope-filled speech by the faculty valedictorian Buse Okumuş, a true voice of the future of engineering.
🏅 Top-Ranked Students
📌 Department of Chemical Engineering
🥇 İlkay Güzel
🥈 Semiha Uysal
🥉 Ziya Güzelöz
📌 Department of Industrial Engineering
🥇 Buse Okumuş (1st in Faculty)
🥈 Nasuh Emir Yılmaz (2nd in Faculty)
🥉 Zaid Faisal Mohammad Safi (3rd in Faculty)
📌 Department of Mechanical Engineering
🥇 Simge Yüksel
🥈 İbrahim Akcan
📌 Department of Polymer Engineering
🥇 Emir Karaman
📌 Department of Computer Engineering
🥇 Maya Yagan
🥈 Ferhat Oğuncer
🥉 Zeynep Rümeysa Doğru
🎓 As the Faculty of Engineering, we did not just graduate students—we cultivated a vision, a stance, and a future.
To our young engineers, we wish a journey filled with confidence, perseverance, and purpose.
💼 A generation ready to build the future is on its way!
