Construction Club

Hello my name is Furkan Kocaman and I am a third year student at Erzurum Technical University, in the Department of Civil Engineering. I am the president of the Erzurum Technical University Construction Club, our department club—which I will now give you some information about. This group was established in 2016 within the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture of Erzurum Technical University. The aim of this society is to provide communication, information sharing and solidarity between our university students and to increase this. It is also to bring well known people who can guide and help us—both as undergraduate and graduate students—to our university and to organize technical trips in order to give a concrete form to the information we have learned in theory. Mostly we meet in the Life Center, the lab and the classrooms. The number of members is approximately 200. We have an admin team of 30 people formed from the technical trip, seminar, social responsibility and sponsorship teams. Mostly, it is students of the Department of Civil Engineering who become members of our society. Our main activities throughout the year include organizing meetings, seminars and conferences in the field of engineering. As civil engineering is a department based on practical applications, we are organizing technical trips and social and cultural events not only in the field of engineering but also in social responsibility areas as well as attending fairs that are beneficial for us. In addition, we organize activities that aim to give you training in those programs required for our department.

Our society is open to everyone interested in the building sector and anyone who accepts to work voluntarily may become a member. Only students of our university can attend the technical trips. To give a concrete example of our activities—our event, which had the widest participation, brought Yoshira Rimu Rimu Waikiki (the advanced civil engineer of Akashi Bridge) to our university and we prepared eight different projects in order to introduce our club at the construction fair to be held in Erzurum. As the Erzurum Technical University Construction Club, we want to work as a team and put a project into practice. With the conferences we organize, we are able to reach out to the names and institutions in the business world and connect with them, finding answers to questions such as, ‘What can we expect in the building sector?’, ‘What should we do as students and as graduates?’ Through the technical visits, our club has enabled us to see the practical application of the theoretical knowledge we have learned in the Department of Civil Engineering. At the same time, it has taught us to be more sensitive and conscientious people by taking part not only in the field of engineering but also in social responsibility projects. Our club made a great contribution not as those saddened by events that have taken place but as individuals who could react to these events and have the will to eliminate such problems. I wish success to those friends choosing their university. I would be pleased to see them at Erzurum Technical University and the Erzurum Technical University Construction Club.