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Mehmet Enes Erciyes is a Candidate University Innovation Fellow who is studying Computer Engineering and Electrical & Electronics Engineering in Koç University, Istanbul.{| class== <span "wikitable" style="colorborder: #ff00005px ridge grey; float:right;"><strong>STRATEGIC PRIORITIES by 2020 Cohort</strong></span> ==<p><strong>#1 &ndash; Enabling our students to better plan and manage their time</strong></p><ul><li>PROJECT IDEA |- KULENDAR:<ul><li>A calendar portal where all events in our school along with class times, deadlines and exams can be seen.</li><li>Problem|[[File:<ul><li>Student Side:<ul><li>There are too many events in our school which makes it very hard to keep trackEnes-profile-photo.</li>jpg|300px]]<li>Only common ground for promoting events are through email, which leads to many people getting emails that do not relate to them, thus missing the events that they would like to attend</li><li>Students cannot plan the events they would like to attend ahead of time.</li>|-<li>Students have a hard time keeping track of their deadlines for different courses.</li>|</ul></li><li>School Administration and Student Clubs Side;Name:Mehmet Enes Erciyes<ul><li>Many departments do not have the prior data about student&rsquo;s vacant times to better plan their events.</li><li>Club activities department lose a lot of time sending club activities mails that can be easily automated</li></ul></li><li>ProgressSchool (Cohort):Koç University (2020 cohort)<ul><li>Connections with IT Department established</li><li>Kick off meeting where use cases and MVP will be planned is set.</li><li>Team recruiting efforts have begun.</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul><p><strong>#2 &ndash; Facilitating the feedback mechanisms and making our voice heard Majoring in school management&nbsp;</strong></p><ul><li>PROJECT IDEA - KUForum:Computer Science<ul><li>A forum where students can ask their questions in categories and get answers that can be upvoted and post their complaints to the complaints board which will also move up as more people support the issue.</li><li>Problem;Country:Turkey<ul><li>Student Side;Email:<ul><li>Lack of questionnaires directed to students or examination of the problem before critical decisions by the school management</li><li>Lack of efficient representation of student voice in decision making process</li><li>Inefficient complaint resolving systems</li><li>Inability to reach answers of previously asked common problems</li></ul></li><li>School Administration Side[[Special:<ul><li>Inability to identify who and how many people suffer from issues.</li><li>Inability to get agile feedback</li><li>Difficulty of identifying most critical problems</li><li>Recurring mails from students which are usually sent to unrelated people</li><EmailUser/ul></li><li>Progress:<ul><li>Connections with IT Department and Student Dean established</li><li>Mechanisms of student complaints or questions being resolved is currently being definedM.</li>eneserciyes]]<li>IT Support for hosting and customization of digital solutions has been promised</li>|}</ul></li>==Bio==</ul></li></ul></li></ul><p><strong>#3 &ndash; Helping students to reach an international network</strong></p><ul><li>PROJECT IDEA &ndash; International Workshops<ul><li>Online International workshops I was born in different areas such as sustainabilitySivas, design thinking etca small city in Anatolia. coordinated with other UIF Fellows with I've grown up there except the help two years of research centers in our my high school</li><li>Problem:<ul><li>The question that comes with online education of whether the university education is necessary while you can learn things from online education platforms at the fraction of the cost.</li></ul></li><li>In response to this problemwhich I spent in Kayseri, we want to help our schools&rsquo; students to retain the network opportunity that universities provide by using the advantages of the online era and our connections with UIFanother relatively bigger city in Turkey.</li></ul></li></ul><p><strong>#4 &ndash; Realizing our students&rsquo; problems and improving their well-being</strong></p><ul><li>PROJECT IDEA &ndash; Wellbeing week<ul><li>Wellbeing exercises and workshops through It was there where I first met the finals innovation concept and midterm weeks that our school is mostly very stressfulgained better perspectives for my future.</li></ul></li><li>PROJECT IDEA &ndash; Wellbeing Club<ul><li>A wellbeing club I realized that shares information with each other on wellbeing, does Yoga or meditation together 😊</li></ul></li></ul><p><strong>#5 &ndash; Informing students about the Innovation &amp; Entrepreneurship opportunities in our school</strong></p><ul><li>PROJECT IDEA &ndash; I&amp;E Online Manual<ul><li>A manual that improves upon the landscape canvas we prepared containing information on entrepreneurship and innovation related coursework, departments, incubation centers want a life where I can constantly create and the paths and counselling they can takeimprove.</li><li>Progress:<ul><li>Established connections My experience with Informatics Olympiads pulled me to the director fascinating realm of KWORKScomputer science and now, our school&rsquo;s incubation center and College of Administrative Sciences DeanI am in Istanbul studying computer science in Koç University.</li><li>Currently recruiting the team to design the manual and gather information I am right now working on the existing opportunities.</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>STRATEGIC PRIORITIES by 2019 Cohort</strong></p><p><strong>#1 SPARK: Full- Accessing Student Clubs.</strong></p><ul><li>PROJECT IDEA - Club Activity Page:<ul><li>Provide a platform where each club can Scale Autonomous Car Project, which I have a voice and talk about their goals,old projects and upcoming events.</li></ul></li></ul><p><strong>#2 co- Labs about innovation and impact are not known around the schoolfounded last year.&nbsp;</strong></p><ul><li>PROJECT IDEA - Scavenger Lab Hunt<ul><li>Arrange a orienteering/scavenger hunt. In the beginning of each new school Last year there during the orientation process.</li></ul></li></ul><p><strong>#3 - Combining knowledge and skills in practice.</strong></p><ul><li>PROJECT IDEA - A program combining different majors and leading by , as a mentor who can guide about designing an upcoming project.&nbsp;</li></ul><p><strong>#4 - Place/workshop to meet few engineering students who have common interests and make them to design complained that there is not a project and to do group -a prototypesociety etc.</strong></p><p>PROJECT IDEA - Design courses or conduct workshops which gathers people who want to make students experience the information which they got from the lecturecreate big projects together.</p><p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p><p><strong>STRATEGIC PRIORITIES by 2017 Cohort</strong></p><p><strong>#1 - GuidingSo, encouraging and inspiring students about non-corporate career paths.</strong></p><ul><li>PROJECT - Innovation &amp; Entrepreneurship Manual&nbsp;October 2020<ul><li>A manual containing information on entrepreneurship and innovation related coursework and departments.</li></ul></li><li>PROJECT -&nbsp;Innovation &amp; Entrepreneurship Board&nbsp;October 2019<ul><li>A board to share information about entrepreneurship and innovation activities with an inspirational &amp; motivational quote to catch people&rsquo;s attention.</li></ul></li><li>PROJECT - A periodically updated &ldquo;How to&rdquo; and we said "Where toWhy not we start this society?" website for Koc University -&nbsp;November 2017<ul><li>An updated website that guides students through skill and goal related journeys.</li><li>Listing all With the related courses, gatekeeper people and professors, affiliated organizations, student clubs and &ldquo;inside information&rdquo; about specific goals, skills, needs.<ul><li><em>Example Case</em><ul><li><em>Student: I am interested in entrepreneurship, but I do not know if I am vision of providing a good fit. I do not know place where to start.&nbsp;'<strong>Where should I start entrepreneurship or design at Koc?</strong></em></li><li><em>Platform: You students can start with this article from Steve Blank. How apply their theoretical knowledge to Start a Startup Series are a very good source for getting to know what entrepreneurship really means? In Kocpractice in big projects, you can take MGMT 411 I acted as the founding co-president of Koç University AI and 412Robotics Society. Our university is also affiliated with KWORKS, an incubation center. There are also MAVA courses that introduce design thinking first project mindset that is very helpful and related became SPARK to starting a new venture. You can check MAVA 205. If you are also interested join Robotaxi Autonomous Car Contest in social issuesTeknofest, you should check MAVA 420 and MGMT 311a national technology festival with three million attendants. Imece Although we were just freshman and Impact Hub are Istanbul-based social entrepreneurship hubs, you should look at their websites too.</em></li></ul></li><li>PROJECT - A Startup career event -&nbsp;December 2017<ul><li>Collaborating with career center, entrepreneurship club, marketing club, business administration club to gather 10+ startup founders with sophomore students to introduce succesful entrepreneurial career paths, hold pitch &amp; innovation challenges with them.</li></ul></li><li>PROJECT - TEDx event focused on I&amp;E</li><li>PROJECT - Pitch competition</li><li>PROJECT - Innovation challenge</li><li>ALTERNATIVE PROJECTS&nbsp;<ul><li>A chatbot mobile application that creates instant answers from we won the website database</li><li>Quarterly revised handbook that lists all first place in the information website has<ul><li>"A Creative&rsquo;s Guide to Thrive at Koc University"</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul><p><strong>#2 - Initiating, sustaining, preliminary design and&nbsp;developing a multi-disciplinary creative network.</strong>&nbsp;</p><p>There is this an urgent need for creative people coming from different disciplines to get to know each simulation stage against 42 other and somehow interactteams which usually included graduate students.</p><ul><li>PROJECT #1 - Slack -&nbsp;November 2017<ul><li>Properly designed Slack group for entrepreneurial needsOur efforts, inspiring articleshowever, event announcements, feedback requests</li></ul></li><li>PROJECT #2 were halted by the COVID- Creative Newsletter<ul><li>Can be integrated 19 pandemic. As we returned to the website</li></ul></li><li>PROJECT #3 - Redesigning KU Daily&nbsp;<ul><li>For a more individualizedour homes, interest-based communication platform</li></ul></li></ul><p><strong>#3 -&nbsp;Redesigning the ineffective indoor and outdoor spaces in the campus we were not able to facilitate productive co-working, creative&nbsp;socializing, and wellbeing.</strong></p><ul><li>For a spatially limited campus (meaning there are no free spaces around the campus continue to enlarge the area) efficiency of currently used areas are highly important for a comfortable, creative student lifenext stages this year.</li><li>PROJECT #1 - Redesigning Yeni Nero space<ul><li>Heart of the campus has the worst indoor design.</li><li>Furnitures are terribly old and dullRight now, not allowing comfortable eating, working in groups and even having a enjoyable coffee break.</li><li>Sound isolation is terrible.</li><li>There we are no sockets.</li><li>Even it is executing a large are at the heart structural transformation of the school, it is not facilitated for workshops, artistic events.</li><li>Interior decoration is not inspiring.</li></ul></li><li>PROJECT #2 - Building small transparent containers in the dormitory area -&nbsp;Fall 2017</li><li>PROJECT #3 - Designing empty spaces that will be created due our society and planning out our project this year to win the moving of science labs to the new buildingcontest. -&nbsp;Spring 2017</li></ul><p><strong>#4 - Informing, promoting, and integrating &ldquo;social impact&rdquo; in the campus.</strong>&nbsp;</p><ul><li>PROJECT - ==Social Impact Quotient &ndash;&nbsp;2017media profiles==<ul><li>Not only GPA for students</li><li>SIQ that measures each student&rsquo;s impact on his community, campus and environment.</li><[https:/ul></li></ul><p><strong>#5 - Facilitating online &amp; offline intersections for the curriculum with new e-learning technologies, platforms, organizationswww.</strong></p><ul><li>PROJECT - Hybrid academic and skill-related e-learning certificate programslinkedin.<ul><li>Connecting courses, e-learning platforms, organizations, clubs, companies and more with condensed certificate programs.<com/li><in/ul><meerciyes/li>LinkedIn]</ul><p><strong><em>#6 -&nbsp;<[https:/em></strong><strong>Designing and building a creative space that will allow multi-disciplinary collaboration, 7/24 co-working, organizing workshops,&nbsp;hosting maker projects, incubating student startups, intersecting with related courses for alternative educative methodologieswww.instagram.<com/strong></p><ul><li>PROJECT - Community Space -&nbsp;Fall 2017 &amp; Spring 2018</li></ul><p><strong>#7 - Empowering administrative and academic staff with I&amp;E related content, workshops, programs for creating a more coherent campus visionm.<eneserciyes/strong></p>Instagram]<ul>[[Category:Koç University (2020 cohort)]]<li>PROJECT IDEA - Global Learning and Leadership Program for school employees</li>[[Category:Student Contributors]]</ul><p>&nbsp;</p>{{CatTree|Koç University}}