Ege University Department of Food Engineering Continuous Improvement Commissions, Duties, and Members (As of June 29, 2025)
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| Commissions | Job Descriptions | Committee Members |
| Accreditation Committee |
1. Preparation of the self-assessment report (SAR) within the scope of the MÜDEK process. 2. Ensuring coordination between all committees in the accreditation process and the Department Head. 3. Performing numerical and qualitative analysis of the teaching staff. 4. Collecting and evaluating periodic activity reports and meeting minutes from all continuous improvement committees. 5. Following version changes and related training in the MÜDEK system. |
Prof. Dr. Nurcan KOCA (Chair) Assoc. Prof. Dr. Burcu ÖZTÜRK KERİMOĞLU (Coordinator) Assoc. Prof. Dr. Burcu KAPLAN TÜRKÖZ (Administrative Info) Assoc. Prof. Dr. Onur ÖZDİKİCİERLER (Virtual room & Web) Assoc. Prof. Dr. Şebnem ŞİMŞEK (Education Info) Assoc. Prof. Dr. Müge URGU ÖZTÜRK (Continuous Improvement) Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ceyda DADALI (Educational Support, International Relations) Res. Asst. Ayşegül KIRMIZIGÜL PEKER Secretary Şerife GÜLÇİN (Correspondence) Rapporteur: Asst. Prof. Dr. Ömer Faruk ÇOKGEZME |
| Strategic Planning and Quality Committee |
1. Preparing, implementing, and reporting the strategic plan in line with the mission, vision, and goals of the department. 2. Ensuring compliance with quality standards in education, teaching, and research activities. 3. Evaluating advisor meetings and forwarding them to relevant committees. 4. Determining continuous improvement requirements in activities and forwarding them to relevant committees. 5. Coordinating continuous improvement studies. 6. Following University and Deanery quality unit meetings. 7. Preparing quality documents requested by the Rectorate in accordance with MÜDEK. |
Prof. Dr. Yeşim ELMACI (Chair) Prof. Dr. Hatice KALKAN YILDIRIM Prof. Dr. Nurcan KOCA Prof. Dr. S. Nur DİRİM Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sırma YEĞİN Assoc. Prof. Dr. Burcu KAPLAN TÜRKÖZ Assoc. Prof. Dr. Burcu ÖZTÜRK KERİMOĞLU Assoc. Prof. Dr. Şebnem ŞİMŞEK Asst. Prof. Dr. Ömer Faruk ÇOKGEZME Rapporteur: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Müge URGU ÖZTÜRK |
| Digital Transformation and IT Committee |
1. Supporting digitalization processes. 2. Increasing the digital visibility of the department, reviewing and updating the department website. 3. Encouraging the effective use of digital tools in academic and administrative processes. 4. Carrying out studies in areas such as group, website design, social media management, e-bulletin preparations, etc. 5. Providing support for moving student surveys to digital platforms when necessary. 6. Organizing digital surveys for advisor-student meetings. 7. Ensuring coordination with university committees and the Career Planning and Alumni Committee of the department regarding graduate surveys. |
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Onur ÖZDİKİCİERLER (Chair) Asst. Prof. Dr. Hülya İLYASOĞLU BÜYÜKKESTELLİ Asst. Prof. Dr. Ömer Faruk ÇOKGEZME Res. Asst. Ayşegül KIRMIZIGÜL PEKER Rapporteur: Res. Asst. Bilge BAŞTÜRK BERK |
| Education Committee |
1. Periodically reviewing and updating the undergraduate education plan. 2. Ensuring compliance of education programs with national and international accreditation standards. 3. Carrying out Bologna processes. 4. Regularly updating the summary of student numbers, teaching staff, and course loads. 5. Evaluating courses according to MÜDEK criteria; determining the level of overlap of each course with program outcomes, receiving feedback from relevant faculty members, developing corrective measures for courses that fall below the set targets. 6. Monitoring the update of information in the accreditation information system by the faculty members giving the course. 7. Updating student surveys regarding courses in terms of content and method, evaluating the results by faculty members, reporting them, and creating strategies based on these results. 8. Evaluating the feedback on education and teaching coming from advisor-student meetings and organizing the necessary improvements. 9. Updating educational goals, mission and vision, and program outcomes within the framework of the continuous improvement cycle and forwarding them to the department head to ensure their visibility. 10. Carrying out improvement studies to increase the participation rate of advisor-student meetings, following up on the issue by creating an improvement cycle, ensuring that meeting feedbacks are evaluated by the Department Head. 11. Evaluating the measurement and evaluation result reports, informing the accreditation committee and the Department academic board, and using the gains achieved in the internal stakeholder cycle. |
Prof. Dr. Nurcan KOCA (Chair) Prof. Dr. Sibel KARAKAYA Prof. Dr. Figen ERTEKİN Prof. Dr. Yekta GÖKSUNGUR Prof. Dr. Gülten GÜNDÜZ TİRYAKİ Prof. Dr. Özgül ÖZDESTAN OCAK Prof. Dr. S. Nur DİRİM (Graduation Thesis Coordinator) Prof. Dr. Seher KUMCUOĞLU (Distance Education Coordinator) Assoc. Prof. Dr. Gülen YILDIZ TURP (Graduate Education Coordinator) Assoc. Prof. Dr. Özlem KIZILIRMAK ESMER (Erasmus Coordinator) Assoc. Prof. Dr. Onur ÖZDİKİCİERLER (Digital Transformation Coordinator) Assoc. Prof. Dr. Şebnem ŞİMŞEK (Vice Head of Department for Education) Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ceyda DADALI (Bologna Coordinator) Asst. Prof. Dr. Canan KARTAL (Joint Degree Program Coordinator) Administrative Staff Ayşegül KARATAŞLI (Correspondence) Rapporteur: Res. Asst. Ayşegül KIRMIZIGÜL PEKER |
| Distance Education Committee |
1. Determining the requirements for distance education. 2. Ensuring the effective execution of distance education processes in the department. |
Prof. Dr. Seher KUMCUOĞLU (Chair) Asst. Prof. Dr. Burak ALTINEL |
| Lateral-Vertical Transfer, Double Major and Minor Program Committee |
1. Evaluating Lateral-Vertical Transfer applications. 2. Performing course adjustments for students making Lateral-Vertical Transfers. 3. Receiving and evaluating applications for Double Major/Minor Programs. 4. Following up on issues related to students continuing the Double Major/Minor Program. 5. Reviewing programs and revising them when necessary in coordination with the Education Committee, especially for programs with no active student applications. |
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Şebnem ŞİMŞEK (Chair) Assoc. Prof. Dr. Emine NAKİLCİOĞLU AĞUŞ Assoc. Prof. Dr. Müge URGU ÖZTÜRK Asst. Prof. Dr. Burak ALTINEL Rapporteur: Asst. Prof. Dr. Canan KARTAL |
| Graduation Thesis Committee |
1. Determining the program related to the graduation thesis course together with relevant committees. 2. Regularly fulfilling and following up on requirements related to the graduation thesis (collecting thesis topics, announcements, registration procedures, presentations, posters). 3. Archiving completed graduation theses regularly in digital and/or physical media. 4. Reporting the number and quality of graduation theses and presentations (research-review, TÜBİTAK, BAP supported) by years. 5. Conducting and evaluating graduation stage surveys. 6. Listing the contact information of students at the graduation stage and forwarding it to the MÜDEK Committee. |
Prof. Dr. Safiye Nur DİRİM (Chair) Prof. Dr. Seher KUMCUOĞLU Assoc. Prof. Dr. Emine NAKİLCİOĞLU AĞUŞ Asst. Prof. Dr. Canan KARTAL Rapporteur: Res. Asst. Bilge BAŞTÜRK BERK |
| Industrial Relations Committee |
1. Holding External Stakeholder meetings. 2. Updating External Stakeholders taking into account their sector and relevant public distribution. 3. Carrying out issues related to internships, updating the lists of places where internships are held by years, and organizing internship surveys. 4. Organizing, implementing, interpreting, and evaluating employer surveys. 5. Organizing meetings aiming to increase university-industry interaction where graduation theses will be presented, in cooperation with the Graduation Thesis Committee. 6. Sharing accreditation information system data in External Stakeholder meetings, reviewing program educational objectives in line with these data and presenting them to the Education Committee. |
Prof. Dr. Yekta GÖKSUNGUR (Chair) Prof. Dr. Semih ÖTLEŞ Prof. Dr. Sedef NEHİR EL Prof. Dr. Şebnem TAVMAN Prof. Dr. Meltem SERDAROĞLU Prof. Dr. Taner BAYSAL Prof. Dr. Filiz İÇİER Prof. Dr. Seda ERSUS Assoc. Prof. Dr. Onur ÖZDİKİCİERLER Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ahsen RAYMAN ERGÜN Rapporteur: Res. Asst. Bilge BAŞTÜRK BERK |
| Career Planning and Alumni Committee |
1. Organizing events, trainings, and consultancy services to support career planning, professional development, and integration into the business world. 2. Ensuring the active participation of different faculty members in career events. 3. Organizing "There is an Alumni in the Classroom" events. 4. Organizing career events. 5. Cooperating with the Graduation Theses Committee regarding events. 6. Organizing the alumni meeting. 7. Reviewing alumni-related activities, creating the alumni database and forwarding it to the MÜDEK Committee on a yearly basis. 8. Updating, conducting, evaluating, and reporting alumni surveys, communicating with Rectorate committees regarding this. 9. Researching the digitalization and tracking system of alumni surveys and communicating with the Digital Transformation and IT Committee regarding the issue. 10. Statistically evaluating the fields and institutions where graduates work to prove that educational goals have been achieved. |
Prof. Dr. Hatice KALKAN YILDIRIM (Chair) Assoc. Prof. Dr. Gülen YILDIZ TURP Assoc. Prof. Dr. Şebnem ŞİMŞEK Rapporteur: Asst. Prof. Dr. Canan KARTAL |
| Administrative Affairs and Infrastructure Committee |
1. Determining the departments to cooperate with in course and application processes and planning the distribution of tasks. 2. Reporting expenditures at the Department and Faculty levels. 3. Determining the conditions of the department infrastructure and carrying out improvement studies. 4. Determining and reporting the innovations made in pilot facilities and laboratories. 5. Taking precautions for the disabled (yellow spots for the visually impaired, voice elevator, etc.). 6. Updating revolving fund fees. |
Prof. Dr. Nurcan KOCA (Chair) Assoc. Prof. Dr. Şebnem ŞİMŞEK Administrative staff Sayim TAŞÇI (Correspondence) Rapporteur: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Burcu KAPLAN TÜRKÖZ |
| Social Responsibility Projects Committee |
1. Supporting students to develop and implement social responsibility projects that will contribute to society. 2. Following and supporting the social responsibility activities and seminars of the department staff. |
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ceyda DADALI (Chair) Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ahsen RAYMAN ERGÜN Asst. Prof. Dr. Canan KARTAL |
| Social Events Committee |
1. Organizing social events within the department. 2. Supporting cultural activities of students. |
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ahsen RAYMAN ERGÜN (Chair) Res. Asst. Ayşegül KIRMIZIGÜL PEKER Rapporteur: Res. Asst. Bilge BAŞTÜRK BERK |
| Occupational Safety and Waste Management Committee |
1. Determining occupational health and safety standards in the department, ensuring their implementation, auditing, and raising awareness. 2. Regulating working safety and security rules in laboratories (control of first aid and safety glasses cabinets and warning signs). 3. Ensuring the sustainability of the waste management system. 4. Updating the fire report and checking fire extinguishers. 5. Providing training to students and employees on occupational safety and waste management. |
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Burcu KAPLAN TÜRKÖZ (Chair) Prof. Dr. Gülten GÜNDÜZ TİRYAKİ Assoc. Prof. Dr. Emine NAKİLCİOĞLU AĞUŞ Technician Zeynep ACAR Technician İbrahim GÜRSOY Rapporteur: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ahsen RAYMAN ERGÜN |
| Student and Faculty Member Mobility Committee |
1. Planning, executing, and developing student and faculty exchange programs at national and international levels. 2. Carrying out coordination and organizations related to international programs such as Erasmus+, Mevlana. 3. Carrying out coordination and organizations related to inter-university programs such as Farabi. 4. Evaluating programs that will provide student mobility (such as Erasmus, Farabi). |
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Özlem KIZILIRMAK ESMER (Erasmus) (Chair) Prof. Dr. S. Nur DİRİM (Orhun, Farabi) Prof. Dr. Özgül ÖZDESTAN OCAK (Farabi and other national) Assoc. Prof. Dr. Burcu ÖZTÜRK KERİMOĞLU (Erasmus) Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ceyda DADALI (Erasmus) Rapporteur: Asst. Prof. Dr. Hülya İLYASOĞLU BÜYÜKKESTELLİ (Erasmus) |
| Internationalization Committee |
1. Increasing the department international education and research collaborations. 2. Increasing the department visibility in the international arena. 3. Organizing training to increase international projects. 4. Following international projects and providing information. |
Prof. Dr. Sedef NEHİR EL (Chair) Prof. Dr. Nurcan KOCA Prof. Dr. Seda ERSUS Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sırma YEĞİN Assoc. Prof. Dr. Burcu KAPLAN TÜRKÖZ Assoc. Prof. Dr. Burcu ÖZTÜRK KERİMOĞLU Rapporteur: Res. Asst. Ayşegül KIRMIZGÜL PEKER |
