Distinguished
Teachers Honored 
| The university is pleased to announce the
recipients of the Distinguished Teachers of the Year Award for 2006. Each of the
recipients was chosen by Bilkent students for demonstrating outstanding teaching
abilities, and for contributing to students' academic and intellectual development. |
 Asst. Prof. İbrahim
Körpeoğlu (CS)
I am very pleased and honored by this award. I thank my students and my
colleagues very much for considering me for this honor. I also thank my family and my wife
for their endless support. In addition, I am grateful to Bilkent University and to
everyone who contributes to this wonderful environment for working, learning and teaching.
Working together with the excellent faculty members and motivated students at Bilkent is a
great opportunity and honor for me. I think that it would be not possible to teach with
passion and excitement without having motivated students. Therefore I thank all my past
and current students for their motivation to work, interest in learning, and eagerness to
improve themselves and their skills. This award encourages me to work to further improve
my teaching.
Prof. Dilek Önkal (MAN)
 I am honored
to receive this award, which I consider to be a remarkable gift from my former and current
students. It is their thirst for knowledge that drives my enthusiasm for teaching and that
motivates me to stay student-focused both in and out of class. Bilkent students are truly
exceptional, and it is indeed a privilege to contribute to their learning.
I would like to thank all my students for so
vividly displaying their intellectual curiosity, critical thinking skills and joy in
learning thank you for making teaching such a rewarding experience.
Asst. Prof. Selin Sayek Böke (ECON)
 I extend my
sincere and humble gratitude to all who thought I deserved this award. It is a great honor
and pleasure to have received this award, especially since it is for work I enjoy doing so
deeply. There are several people who have shaped me as a teacher, to whom I would like to
say "thank you." My parents, my sister Aylin, my two-year-old son Can and my
dear spouse Mert have all taught me that life is a continuous process of learning,
exploring and sharing. I also thank my teachers and colleagues, who have advanced the art
of teaching and "awaken[ed] [my] joy in creative expression and knowledge," as
put by Albert Einstein. Finally, I acknowledge my students, whom I always learn from and
learn together with. As Confucius said, "the processes of teaching and learning
stimulate one another," and I am happy to follow this credo.
ECTS
Student Workload Surveys Being Conducted
The European Credit Transfer and
Accumulation System (ECTS) is a key
instrument to promote the comparability and compatibility of courses and
programs in institutions of higher education throughout Europe. As
such, it has a scope that goes well beyond the mere assignment of numerical
credits to courses. ECTS credits are intended to be a measure of the
actual workload an average student undertakes in the process of
successfully completing the requirements of a course and achieving the stated
learning outcomes and competencies expected in that course. (Continued)
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Bilkent-Tilburg Cooperation Is
Official
The opening ceremony for the Bilkent-Tilburg
Dual Master's Program was held at Mithat Çoruh Auditorium on Friday, May 5. Despite the
coincidence with the last day of Bilkent's Spring Festival, quite a large number of
students joined university representatives and government officials from both Turkey and
the Netherlands to attend the official introduction of the program.
The ceremony started with a mini-concert by
the Bilkent Youth Quartet, which was followed by Economics Department Chair Fatma
Taşkın's description of the program's details. Subsequent speeches by Prof. Ali
Doğramacı, Rector of Bilkent University, and Prof. Frank A. van der Duyn Schouten,
Rector of Tilburg University, were followed by the signing of the agreement between the
two universities.
EEE
Faculty Member Receives First Prize in Underwater Photography
Competition
Prof. Orhan Aytür of the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering received
first prize awards at the recent Altin Palet Underwater Photography Competition. Organized
by the Turkish Underwater Sports Federation (http://www.tssf.gov.tr/), the competition was held in
Marmaris on April 29-30. A member of CMAS - Confédération Mondiale des Activités
Subaquatiques (http://www.cmas.org
/index.asp), the Turkish Underwater Sports Federation has held underwater photography
competitions since 1997.
 On the first day of this year's event, 47 photographers/
videographers and their "dive buddies" made two dives in the Akvaryum and
Kirburun bays of Cennet Island near Marmaris to shoot photos/films to enter in the
competition. The jury evaluated the entries on the second day. Prof. Aytür came in first
in three of the four photography categories, namely slide macro, digital macro and digital
wide-angle.
Prof. Aytür has been fond of photography
since he was a child. He
started scuba diving in 1998 and underwater photography in 2000.
Young Critics
Convene for the Seventh Time
The "Young Critics Symposium," organized annually by the Department of Turkish
Literature, is convening for the seventh time this year. The event is taking place this
week on May 8-10 at the conference hall of Adnan Ötüken İl Halk Kütüphanesi (the
former location of the National Library of Turkey) in Kızılay.
During these symposia, graduate students of
the department get a chance to share their research with a large audience, and to improve
their work by responding to criticism. By the end of this year's symposium, 32 graduate
students from the department will have presented papers on various periods and genres of
Turkish literature. (Continued)
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