Our “Looking for Future Agricultural Engineers” Program Has Started!
The opening ceremony of our “Looking for Future Agricultural Engineers” program, prepared in collaboration with Niğde Ömer Halisdemir University, Niğde Provincial Directorate of National Education, our University’s Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Technologies and our University’s Ayhan Şahenk Agricultural Application and Research Center, has been held.
In this program, where we will host two high schools from Niğde province at our Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Technologies every week and introduce them to our Faculty, Departments and the Agricultural Engineering profession, we first hosted Remide Yılmaz Atabek Anatolian High School and Hacı Zekiye Arslan Anatolian High School.
Our Rector Prof. Dr. Hasan USLU, our Provincial Director of National Education Mr. Halil İbrahim YAŞAR, Dean of the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Technologies and Director of Ayhan Şahenk Agricultural Application and Research Center Prof. Dr. Ahmet ŞEKEROĞLU, In the program held with the participation of our academicians and high school students from our faculty, the importance of agriculture and the profession of Agricultural Engineering were discussed in detail with the students.
“We are happy to see our high school students who are future agricultural engineer candidates among us”
Our Dean Prof. Dr. Ahmet ŞEKEROĞLU, who started his opening speech by expressing the national and international importance of agriculture, mentioned that the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Technologies is very advanced in terms of research and infrastructure facilities and that our students in our faculty are always involved in practical education. Our Dean, who completed his speech by mentioning the 100% English education and scholarship opportunities provided by our faculty, overseas education opportunities, modern laboratories, comfortable classrooms, academic staff specialized in their fields, Agricultural Application and Research Center with state-of-the-art systems and the ease of finding jobs for our graduates, stated that he would be happy to see our high school students who are future agricultural engineer candidates among us.
“Full Support for These and Similar Events”
Mr. Halil İbrahim YAŞAR, the Provincial Director of National Education, began his speech by thanking our University and Faculty for providing such an introduction opportunity to our high school students. Stating that similar events were held in the past to introduce agricultural engineering to high school students, our Provincial Director of National Education stated that they fully support these and similar events together with our University.
“The Success of Our Pioneer University in Agriculture and Our Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Technologies”
Our Rector Prof. Dr. Hasan USLU stated that agriculture will be as important today and in the future as it was in the past, and touched on the achievements of our pioneer University in agriculture in this field. Mentioning the importance our Rectorate attaches to research and development studies, our Rector told the students about our university’s TUBITAK achievements and the activities our faculty carries out in the field of agriculture. Our Rector concluded his speech by thanking the Provincial Directorate of National Education, our Dean Prof. Dr. Ahmet ŞEKEROĞLU, our Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Technologies academicians, and all participants.
After the opening speeches, the introductory videos of our Faculty were watched, the departments of our Faculty were introduced by the Department Representatives and the questions from the participants were answered. After that, our students toured our Faculty and had a closer look at the laboratories, classrooms and facilities of our Faculty and the program ended.