Program
Nowadays, there is a great need for accumulative, qualified and competent intermediate staff who have acquired the basic knowledge and skills for the needs of the construction sector. Within the scope of Construction Technology Program; technical staff who can take part in applying the plans and projects prepared by the architects and engineers in the construction of engineering structures and who are capable of using and controlling advanced technology devices, laboratories and construction sites are trained. Our graduates are intended to be technical personnel with more theoretical knowledge than technician and more practical skill than engineer in a position between manager and engineer and skillful worker and technician.
Aim of the Program
Our program is a two-year education program which provides the need for qualified manpower needed by the construction sector in both production and after-sales service levels to meet the expectations of the quality and service philosophy that will meet the expectations of the age.
Construction technician; in his/her work, he/she is an intermediate technician who has more theoretical knowledge than technician and has more application skills than engineer between senior manager and/or engineer and technician. In these qualifications, a technician can assume the role of management in small and medium-sized enterprises. Construction Technicians; is a professional group who take active role in construction of buildings such as dams, roads, airports, dwellings, and control services; besides working as technical staff in natural resource, transportation/road, building sections and material test laboratories of public or local administrations.
As the Department of Construction Technology, our aim is to enable our students to be trained as a practice-based intermediate element in the construction field with the knowledge of using the best knowledge and technology tools in the construction offices, drawing on the computer, having enough information about the construction techniques, preparing projects and obtaining the necessary financial calculations.
Vision
Our vision is to be a program both educating Construction Technicians aiming to transform science and technique to the benefit of our country and humanity, knowing how to learn, research and question, having the ability to compete in the international field, being equipped with contemporary knowledge, having national and universal culture and leadership trait; and also doing high level research and contributing to science.
Due to the importance of the construction sector, especially in developing countries; has the task of educating specialized staff who can transfer the theory to practice, can balance the technical and general issues and can adapt to all kinds of technological developments.
Mission
Our mission is to train qualified technical staff, who have adopted concepts and principles, design the projects required to create new systems required by the construction industry, have the necessary skills to ensure manufacturing the products according to the relevant standards and earthquake regulations, have the accumulation to control and ensure that all kinds of productions in the construction sector are made in accordance with the technique, be able to work in public and private sectors, have the habit of continuous learning, enterprising, be prone to team work, can produce solutions, have the ability to research, analyze and synthesize, open to technological developments, sensitive to environmental and cultural values, beneficial to his country and humanity, make scientific research and produce technology to increase the quality of life of the society, have universal thinking ability, have an open mind, have the knowledge and awareness of social responsibility, ethical values and social security rights on issues related to the field.
Concurrently, assisting our students for undergraduate completion in the transition to civil engineering and architecture departments with a vertical transition exam.
Contents of the Program
The Construction Technology Program is a two-year program consisting of 4 semesters of 14 weeks. In this two-year period, theoretical courses, laboratory practices and industry-based instruction are provided. The program is designed to teach students the basic concepts of building and construction of all kinds of structures, as well as to develop hand skills in industrial and laboratory applications.
Achievements of the Program
Upon successful completion of the program, students are awarded with associate degree in the field of “Construction Technology Program”. The graduates of the program can transfer to the Civil Engineering Undergraduate Programs and Architecture Programs with a Vertical Transfer Exam. Our university offers a wide range of scholarship opportunities to our graduates. In addition, our graduates can also register directly to the economics and business administration departments of the Open Education Faculty.
As a result of the two-year Construction Technology Associate Degree Program, we are making sure that our graduate students are equipped with the following qualifications by conducting in-class activities and group work, preparing assignments, projects and presentations, and making applications:
- Have good computer skills,
- Be able to make drawings with classical method and Auto-CAD,
- Be able to conduct architectural and static projects
- Can make construction management,
- Know the methods of land surveying and use tools,
- Be able to prepare construction quantity survey and construction estimatingreport,
- Can conduct experiments related to construction materials in construction laboratories,
- Can make road construction and parceling works,
- Can recognize construction materials,
- Know how to use, design, manage and control the appropriate material, equipment and reinforcement in constructions,
- Can perform material and concrete tests,
- Be able to conduct ground investigation studies of constructions together with their experiments,
- Have knowledge about water structures, drinking water, sewerage, rainwater and can read their projects,
- To be able to organize work site, prepare work program, know contract management,
- Can prepare quantity survey, construction estimatingreport and progress payment,
- Can use CAD design programs and package programs of static and reinforced concrete calculations of buildings,
- Know the preparation of road application projects and road construction techniques,
- Know the design principles of steel, wood and prefabricated structures and can read and conduct their projects,
construction technicians.
Assessment and Grading
Students must register for courses in the program at the beginning of each semester. They are required to attend in at least 70% of the classes and the practical training. Students are assessed by at least one mid-term and one final exam. Their grade are determined by calculating the contribution of mid-term (grades from homework, laboratory exam and practical works can also be regarded as mid-term grade) and final exam. Contribution of the mid-term and the final exam is determined between 40%-60% by the lecturer of the course.
Graduation Requirements
Students who have successfully completed all courses in the Construction Technology Program (equivalent to 120 ECTS credits), have at least 2.00 on a 4.00 weighted grade point average, have completed their summer internship for 30 working days and participate in 8 cultural events are eligible to graduate with a pre-license degree in Construction Technology Program.
Occupational Profiles of Graduates
The graduates of the Construction Technology Program receive the title of Construction Technician. The program graduates have employment opportunities as Construction Technician in construction sector which is the most important sector of our country; both in the public sector (Environment and Urban Planning Ministry, Transport, Maritime Affairs and Communications Ministry, Forestry and Water Affairs Ministry and organizations affiliated to these ministries, State Hydraulic Works, Turkish Republic Highways, Provincial Bank, provincial and district municipalities, etc.), and in the private sector.
Graduates can work in airways constructions, construction of transportation structures such as roads, railways, bridges, infrastructure structures such as drinking water, sewage, treatment plant, coastal harbor structures such as harbor, breakwater, pier, prestressed concrete and reinforced concrete sector, wooden house sector, restoration companies, cement factories, building decoration sector, ceramics, granite and marble sector, clay and clay products sector, model sector, rebar sector, ground technologies sector, steel structure sector, national palaces, prefabricated building sector, wooden joinery workshops, PVC manufacturing and installation sector , facade systems sector, insulation sector, roof systems sector, formwork systems sector, concrete plants, construction laboratories, construction companies, building audit companies, soil improvement companies, oil research companies, concrete plants and construction material laboratories, project offices producing static, architectural, reinforced concrete and geotechnical projects etc. as technical personnel.