UYGAR Holds Thank-You Dinner for Scholarship Providers

Opened in the fall semester of the 2008-2009 academic year under the coordination of the Bahçeşehir University Transportation Application and Research Center (UYGAR) to train experts who can examine and overcome urban problems in our country and, in particular, provide solutions to cities' transportation problems, the Urban Systems and Transportation Management Master's Program was launched as an interdisciplinary program offering education in specialized subjects in urban planning, architecture, environmental engineering and civil engineering to meet the needs of public and private institutions for qualified personnel in these fields, and currently continues with nearly 200 students.

In the spring semester of the 2009-2010 academic year, our program, which has attracted great interest since its launch, provided 100% free scholarships to central and local government employees within the framework of cooperation protocols signed with leading expert companies in the field in our country: Ağaoğlu İnşaat, Temsa Global, Aktifbank, E-Kent Elektronik Ücret Toplama Sistemleri A.Ş., Alka Sanayi ve Tic. A.Ş., Çepaş Galvaniz Demir Çelik A.Ş., Yimtaş A.Ş., Corvus Technologies ; in this context, scholarships were granted to 38 of our students. Together with other registrations, a total of 58 people enrolled in the program for this semester.

At a dinner held on 18 March 2010, our President Prof. Dr. Yıldırım Üçtuğ and UYGAR Coordinator Prof. Dr. Mustafa Ilıcalı gave short speeches emphasizing the importance of our program and presented plaques of appreciation to the companies that supported us with scholarships, and company executives were brought together with the scholarship students.