Civil Engineering Department offers courses in Turkish. Students, completed four years of undergraduate program that involves 240 ECTS equivalent of course study and 2.00 minimum GPA score out of 4.00 as well as 60 work days of summer internship study, are granted with the Bachelors Degree.
First Cycle
Atatürk University Civil Engineering Department accepts high school graduates who are qualified to submit sufficient quantitative scores of YGS and LYS exam, both are administered by Student Selection and Placement Center (ÖSYM). Also, either Vocational High School graduates or both the other universities X Engineering department and qualified AU departments’ students can transfer to the X Engineering Department after the 3rd semester. All these transfers are coordinated by a guideline, and the students can only transfer in accordance with the announced instructions to define the quota and required qualifications.
Admission can be made from the institutions of which equivalency is recognized by Higher Education Council. Successful vocational school graduates to continue their educaiton to obtain Bachelor’s degrees if they are successful in vertical transfer examination are also admitted. The courses to be taken by these students are determined by the relevant department, on the basis of courses they have completed in the programs in vocational school from which they have graduated. Recognition of prior non-formal and in-formal learning is at the beginning stage in Turkish Higher Education Institutions. Ataturk University and thus the department is not an exception to this. However, exams of exemption are organised at the start of each year at the University for the courses of English Language. The students who achieve a passing grade from the exam are held exempt from the related course in the curriculum.
Students must be successfull and/or pass all courses on the programme including graduation thesis/projects and internship that are explained education and exam regulation of Ataturk University.
Department of Civil Engineering seeks to develop and maintain a contemporary educational program that will equip students with a capability of applying the basic and applied engineering sciences towards the analysis and synthesis of complex engineering projects, and prepares students for a wide and changing spectrum of professional career opportunities, with developed verbal and written communication skills, and the ability to interact effectively in multi-disciplinary settings.
Our graduates of Civil Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Programme can proseffionally take part either in government or private sector divisions regarding to their civil engineer title and diploma. They are employed in many civil and military government divisions as civil engineer, inspector, assistant inspector, expert, etc. As examples for these institutions all ministries basically Environment and Urban Development Ministry; military divisons under the administration of Turkish Defence Ministry, some ministry-independent institutions such as Turkish Republic Prime Ministry Foundations General Directory and related divisions of universities can be stated. Civil engineers are also employed in miscallenous civil associations, domectic and internationally active construction making private sector firms, insurance companies, etc. Furthermore, civil engineers may also work in private contractorship companies and consulting firms; may act as academicians in the related divisions of universities.
There exist numbers of our graduates who are active in the above mentioned working areas.
The graduates who take proper results from ALES exam and related English examinations can make their applications to master degree programmes either in civil engineering area or any other related ones. The students with high honour graduation degree may realize applications to direct PhD programmes of Atatürk University.
Besides, the graduates may continue their graduate education in other domestic or international institutions with their TOEFL, GRE, IELTS exam scores by making their applications to master or direct PhD degree programmes.
One or two mid-term exams, quiz exams, home works and one final exam are required for every class offered at the department. 60% of the final exam and 40% of the other exam grades define the final grade of the class. Student has to meet the requirements defined by the guidelines to be eligible to take the final exam. All exams are graded out of 100 points, and relative grading system is used to determine the student’s success grade. For this purpose, course lecturer converts the mid-term, final exam and other grades to the letter grades by means of a statistical evaluation of these based on the rules defined by the guidelines. Students who can not meet the 2.00 GPA minimum for two consequent semesters are not allowed to enroll the following semester’s classes. Any student who gets AA, BA, BB, CB and CC grades from a course is considered to be successful. On the other hand, DC and DD grades are evaluated based on the student’s cumulative GPA. If student’s cumulative GPA is above the minimum GPA, then student is considered to be successful in all courses with DC and DD grades. FF grade is assigned to a student who is assumed to be unsuccessful in a course. A student with a FF grade in a particular course is supposed to re-register for that course first time it is offered with the same attendance and exam requirements. M and G grades are not accounted through the GPA calculation.
Civil Engineering Department’s education regulation requires the successfully completion of all the course work, applications, internships and similar studies as well as having a 2.00 minimum GPA score to get the degree. Education program consists of theoretic classes and/or practice, seminar, workshop, laboratory, internship study, completion project and other activities (research, homework, project and etc.). Total credit hours required for graduation is 143 credit hours in Civil Engineering Department excluding the common obligatory classes.
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