Complex sentence: He initially graduated from Robert College as an electrical engineer in 1916, being the first Turkish student of the college to receive a degree and advanced his studies to receive a degree of mechanical engineering from the same institution in 1922.
Split into simpler sentences: He initially graduated from Robert College as an electrical engineer in 1916, being the first Turkish student of the college to receive a degree. He advanced his studies to receive a degree of mechanical engineering from the same institution in 1922.