CIVIL ENGINEERING

Civil Engineer is a technical staff engaged in training and research about the planning,

projecting, construction and supervision structures responsible for all kinds of buildings, dams,

airports, bridges, tunnels, roads, ports, water treatment structures, wastewater treatment

facilities, water distribution, sewerage systems and industrial buildings. In addition, civil

engineers are powerful executive candidates who can produce fast, practical, economical,

robust and realistic solutions to the problems facing with their analytical thinking ability.

GENERAL FEATURES THAT A CIVIL ENGINEER SHOULD HAVE

It is foreseen that civil engineers who will be employed nationally and internationally should

have the following characteristics at the point of successful professional career and highest

social benefit:

1. Ability to apply mathematics, basic sciences and engineering knowledge,

2. Ability to design and perform an experiment, to do data analysis and to have

interpretation ability,

3. Ability to design a system, components or solution methods with the desired features,

4. Ability to work within an interdisciplinary group,

5. Ability to identify, model and solve problems,

6. Be aware of professional and ethical responsibilities,

7. Ability to communicate effectively,

8. Ability to create wide perspective on the effects of engineering solutions in the universal

and social concept,

9. Ability to continue lifelong learning,

10. Having knowledge about the regulations and other legal legislation in force,

11. Ability to use modern engineering tools, skills and techniques for engineering

applications.

WHAT IS THE WORK FIELD OF CIVIL ENGINEERING? WHAT IS ITS JOB

OPPORTUNITY?

Civil Engineering according to work field, has a very wide coverage area. The field that

construction sector contained is directly related with the basic needs of people and

communities’ requirements such as harbouring, clean water, energy, transportation etc.

Thus, Civil engineering has a prominent position on world economies.

Civil Engineers can work at many public institutes, private sectors, worksites, project

offices etc. The Public Institutes that civil engineers are mostly employed;

- The Ministry of Environment and Urban

- The Ministry of Forestry and Water Affairs

- The Ministry of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Communications

- General Directorate of State Hydraulic Works

- General Directorate of Highways

- İlbank

- General Directorate of State Airports Authority

- General Directorate of Turkish State Railway

- All municipalities

- Public Procurement Authority

- Ministry of Development

- All Universities.

WHAT IS THE MAIN PURPOSE OF CIVIL ENGINEERING PROGRAM?

Civil engineering department purposes to educate candidate of civil engineers who have

the following characteristics:

Having fundamental professional information for creating a regular environment and

increasing life quality of people,

Having the academic ability for accomplishing in any university or research center,

Having the ability for working in any area and stage of construction sector and having

initiative soul,

Having the conscious of the ethical rules required by profession,

Having the compatible personality in team works and ability to have leadership role,

Having the self-confident personality and ability to express him or herself written or

verbally,

Being able to follow technological developments and renew themselves with the awareness

of continuous development,

Being able to manage the identification, modelling and solution processes of an

engineering problem and suggest practical/quick solutions,

Having their professional/legal responsibilities and having ability to assessing engineering

problems with social, environmental, health and work safety factors.

İNŞAAT MÜHENDİSLİĞİ BÖLÜMÜ

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