MISSION
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OBJECTIVES
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| The Department strives |
To fullfil the Mission, the Department is committed |
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to graduate contemporary ME’s who will be able to work in different industries where they can add value, have the qualities to progress to top level management |
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to attract high quality students. |
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to offer a flexible undergraduate program.
to educate undergraduate students |
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who have mastered the fundamental notions and principles of ME discipline, |
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who are able to independently learn various applications, examine, critically evaluate and find solutions, |
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who are open to team work, inquisitive, innovative and take initiatives, |
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who perform effectively through oral, written and graphical communication, are sociable, well rounded and have broad interests, |
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who are aware of their professional and ethical responsibilities. |
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to graduate MS level ME’s who know well and are able to apply the fundamentals of Mechanical Engineering and their specialty areas; to develop PhD students who can do research creatively, develop new knowledge in the global context and can share this through publications and other means. |
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to attract high quality graduate students. |
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to offer a rich graduate program.
to educate undergraduate students |
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who can appreciate the value of and benefit from scientific and technical publications, |
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who are in touch with current scientific and technological world, |
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who can engage in multi directional research, |
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who can share and discuss with, and enthusiastically transfer the results of this multi directional research to appropriate parties. |
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to develop globally acceptable new knowledge and be able to apply it appropriately and creatively to improve Turkey’s scientific and technological know-how. |
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to contribute to scientific environment at BU, as a whole.
to have faculty members |
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who can follow scientific and technological developments, |
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who can contribute to knowledge in their area of specialty, |
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who can form teams with different colleagues, |
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who can become a focal point for global research, |
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who can become first point of contact for the area of specialty in Turkey. |
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to have PhD students and post-doctoral fellows in sufficient number and quality. |
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to develop infrastructures for advanced technologies. |
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to be able to transfer this technology to industry and to share its knowledge and experience with industry and society at large. |
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to take necessary steps towards mutually trustworthy collaborations with industry. |
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to provide life long learning (LLL) possibilities. |
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to develop technology transfer channels and mechanisms . |
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to have the capacity for continuous learning and to be committed to self improvement and improvement of the university system |
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to start a quality assurance system to introduce a quality culture. |
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to enhance stakeholder participation. |
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to develop multiple sources of income. |
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to engage in public relation activities addressing students, industry, academic circles and society at large. |
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to keep the undergraduate quota within -0%,+10% limits |
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to introduce additional elective slots in the curriculum to allow for HSS and Admin. Sci. sequences |
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to start co-op program |
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to establish award systems for good students |
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to develop systematic relations with student representatives |
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to evaluate the course contents, conduction, compatibility and success of basic courses in the curriculum |
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to emphasize use of computers (tools such as excel, word as well as modeling) |
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to follow up computer availability and keep it at a satisfactory level |
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to adopt “learning by doing” approach; expand the use web environment |
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to improve senior project course to satisfy both students and faculty. |
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to establish the links of senior project course with industry |
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to introduce mentoring - informing and guiding along the profession |
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to develop exchange programs |
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to add to courses (in particular to project courses) written and oral presentation techniques |
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to emphasize professional ethics, scientific ethics; attitude at work |
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to raise graduate student numbers to 100 |
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to introduce additional MS programs such as a, co-terminal b, non- thesis c, automotive |
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to increase the number of RA and TA |
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to provide office space and dormitory to graduate students |
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to support RA’s through contract research + fellowships + TÜBİTAK programs |
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to arrange scientific seminars /conferences |
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to encourage MS theses to be multidisciplinary, joint with other departments, supervised by two advisors and linked with industry |
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to have a PhD curriculum involving disciplines outside that of the thesis |
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to have seminars where faculty and graduate students share the scientific work they carry out |
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to implement the requirement to publish for PhD students before graduation |
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to implement the requirement to prepare a presentation in the ASME format for MS students |
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to support all affords to increase IT facilities (library, internet,..) |
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to establish award (appreciation) mechanisms within the Department |
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to spread the use of sabbatical opportunity |
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to encourage faculty to visit research institutions in the summer |
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to encourage membership to professional societies (ASME, SAE, AİAA, ASTM, SAMP, Turkish S. ME,..) |
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to expect faculty to attend a international conference and present a paper every two years. |
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to increase the ratio of SCIE publication per faculty per year to one. |
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to aim at receiving large number of citations |
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to arrange conferences and symposia |
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to aim at filing patents |
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to aim at joint projects with international partners, to develop links to realize “integrated PhD program” |
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to have at least two national and two international cooperation programs as a Department in five years |
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to have one visiting scholar every year. |
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to focus strength; to assess existing research areas vs. aimed strong areas |
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to develop technologies which may increase the competitive advantage of Turkey |
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to increase the visibility of the Department .Which of the national/ international activities feels the Department to be engaged with. |
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to establish chair professor positions |
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to increase the number of PhD students to 30 within five years |
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to increase the number of post-doctoral fellows to 3 within five years |
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to emphasize USA/EU contacts to enable integrated doctoral programs |
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to be able to offer different alternatives to non standard PhD candidates |
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to determine space requirements of the Department |
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to determine small /large maintenance requirements of the Department |
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to determine the need for equipment (teaching + research) |
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to determine the need for technicians and support personnel |
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to make the arrangements for part time instructors from industry to offer at least one special topics course every semester. |
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to offer continuing education courses/life long learning courses in cooperation with members from industry |
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to attempt to identify strategies in mechanical engineering and priorities of Turkey, in cooperation with industry, state and universities. |
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to be able to offer at least three LLL activities per year, at the and of five years |
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to carry the specialties of the Department to the WEB to provide an infrastructure for continuing education activities |
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to establish joint laboratories with industry in areas of excellence of the Department and to create know-how and technology in the university which can be applied towards product development |
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to have cooperation with and consulting to industry one day per week (at least five members are expected to have developed such links within five years) |
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to support other higher education institutions |
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to have TQM methodologies routinely applied within the department and lead the university to adopt it |
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to go through ABET 2000 accreditation procedures |
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to make self-assessment based on outputs |
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to develop mechanisms to have objective evaluations such as GRE, FE, PE..
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to keep in touch with the alumni; to arrange yearly feed back meetings |
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to continue more actively with the industrial Advisory Board and to include non-alumni business–men |
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to arrange a search conference to reach a larger range of stakeholders |
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to get the feedback of industry/business sector |
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to campaign to provide financial / in kind support of alumni |
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to support realization of entrepreneurial university model |
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to work towards including income generating activities into the evaluation criteria |
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to prepare public relations / promotion brochures for
a) students b) industry c) research units |
