ECTS - - Civil Engineering Graduate Program without Thesis
Compulsory Departmental Courses
MDES600 - Research Methodology and Communication Skills (3 + 0) 5
Rigorous, scholarly research, particularly theses or dissertations. Literature review, surveys, meta-analysis, empirical research design, formulating research questions, theory building, qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis methods, validity, reliability, triangulation, building evidences, writing research proposal
Elective Courses
CE404 - Occupational Safety and Health (3 + 0) 6
Introduction to safety management, hazard analysis and control, hazard communication program, job hazard analysis, safety supervision and leadership, accident investigation, personal protective equipment, ergonomics, confined space entry, fall protection, preventing workplace violence, electrical safety, fire prevention.
CE411 - Design and Construction of Transportation Facilities (3 + 0) 6
Transportation systems, geometric design of transportation facilities based on operational capacity, site constraints, and safety considerations, pavement design and rehabilitation, terminals as components of transportation systems engineering, operations planning and construction of transportation systems.
CE418 - Slope Stability (3 + 0) 6
Overview of slopes and stability concepts, examples of slope failure, causes of slope failures, review of soil mechanics principles and shear strength of soil: drained and undrained conditions, total and effective stress, drained and undrained shear strength, laboratory and field Testing of earth materials for slope stability.
CE419 - Deep Excavations and Retaining Structures (3 + 0) 6
Introduction to type of retaining walls; importance of site investigations for deep excavations; active and passive pressures acting on the retaining wall; type of support systems like ground anchors, strutted excavations, anchor bulkheads; monitoring of deep excavations; limitations for lateral and vertical displacement of the retaining structures.
CE420 - Tunnelling (3 + 0) 6
Introduction to tunneling: art and engineering; geological aspects of tunneling; tunneling methods: soft ground, rock or adverse ground conditions; ground treatment in tunneling; stresses and displacements associated with excavation of tunnels; design and support of tunnels; application of numerical analysis codes for tunneling.
CE423 - Structural Optimization (3 + 0) 6
Formulation of structural optimization problems, graphical solution procedure, sizing, geometry, and topology optimization, steepest-descent method, Newton?s method, branch and bound method, multi-objective structural optimization, evolutionary algorithms, sensitivity analysis techniques, and practical applications.
CE425 - Construction Planning and Cost Estimating (3 + 0) 6
Introduction to construction project management, tendering process, public procurement law, public procurement contract law, tender documents, cost engineering and quantity surveying, contractor`s bid price, progress payments, and taking-over and performance certificates.
CE437 - Structural Dynamics (3 + 0) 6
Dynamics of lumped mass systems (single- and multi-degree of freedom systems); free vibration; response to harmonic and periodic excitations; response to impulsive excitations; response to general dynamic loading; earthquake response of linear elastic and inelastic structures; generalized single-degree-of-freedom systems; modal analysis; response history analysis; response spectrum analysis.
CE440 - Earthquake Engineering (3 + 0) 6
Seismic ground motion, introduction to earthquakes, causes of earthquake, seismic waves, factors affecting earthquake motion at a site, prediction of motion at a site, recording and processing of earthquake ground motion; single degree of freedom systems, formulation of the equation of motion, free vibration analysis.
CE442 - Advanced Materials of Construction (3 + 0) 6
Mechanical and durability properties of construction materials, properties and microstructure of concrete in fresh and hardened state, microstructure, types and various aspects of steel, plastics and composites in construction, innovative materials of construction and the interaction of construction materials with the environment.
CE443 - Advanced Concrete Materials (3 + 0) 6
Cement, aggregates and admixtures for concrete, properties of concrete in fresh and hardened state, types and various aspects of concrete, durability characteristics of concrete, future of concrete studies and the interaction of concrete with the environment.
CE447 - Computer Aided Analysis and Design in Structural Engineering (3 + 0) 6
Introduction to Excel and Visual Basic, introduction to Excel and Visual Basic programming, programming in excel, design of reinforced concrete beams, design of reinforced concrete columns, deflection of reinforced concrete beams, design of steel beams, design of steel columns, introduction to SAP2000, use of Excel and SAP2000 simultaneously.
CE449 - Computer Aided Analysis and Design of Reinforced Concrete Structural Members (3 + 0) 6
Material properties, moment curvature relationships of beams, serviceability, ductility of beams, slender columns, two-way slabs, biaxial bending of columns, punching shear, behavior under shear and torsion, seismic design principles.
CE454 - Computer Applications in Geotechnical Engineering (3 + 0) 6
Definition geotechnical problems, preliminary studies and design consideration in geotechnic, FEM, Plaxis, exercises and case studies are based on the Plaxis computer programs, preparation of on geotechnical problems solving project by Plaxis.
CE456 - Design and Construction of Tall Building Systems (3 + 0) 6
Overview of design philosophy and selection of the structural systems for tall buildings; criteria and loadings; structural modeling and analysis; structural and foundation design; fire safety engineering; construction planning and management of tall building projects.
CE464 - Construction Scheduling and Cost Control (3 + 0) 6
Introduction and some advanced studies in a computer application like MS Project, extensively used for construction scheduling and cost control; time extension clauses in international construction contracts; cause-effect relationship to prove construction claims.
CE471 - Integrated Coastal Zone Management (3 + 0) 6
Definition of coastal zone and its physical and ecological properties, coastal landforms, the global ocean and the climate system, coastal processes, coastal structures, pressures on the coast, coastal pollution, sustainability, integrated coastal zone management (ICZM) and ICZM in Turkey.
CE479 - Applied Water Resources Engineering (3 + 0) 6
Introduction to water resources projects and most commonly used hydraulic structures, reservoirs, capacity determination of reservoirs, planning and construction of dams, dam types, design of dams, stability analysis of dams, spillway types, stilling basin types, hydroelectric power plant types, hydroelectric power/energy calculation, turbines.
CE508 - Computer-Aided Highway Design (3 + 0) 5
Introduction to MicroStation CAD platform, introduction to InRoads platform, digital terrain model and point types symbology and feature creation for DTM, horizontal alignment and profile extraction, vertical alignment, typical cross sections, roadway modeling, superelevation, final evaluation of the course.
CE511 - Design and Construction of Transportation Facilities (3 + 0) 5
Transportation systems, geometric design of transportation facilities based on operational capacity, site constraints, and safety considerations, pavement design and rehabilitation, terminals as components of transportation systems engineering, operations planning and construction of transportation systems.
CE512 - Principles of Geographic Information Systems (2 + 2) 5
Geographic information systems (GIS) technologies as a variety of geospatial data including remotely sensed imagery from the satellites, the basic concepts, software used and available data types used by GIS, exploration of geospatial data and the construction of cartographic products.
CE518 - Slope Stability (3 + 0) 5
Overview of slopes and stability concepts, examples of slope failure, causes of slope failures, review of soil mechanics principles and shear strength of soil: drained and undrained conditions, total and effective stress, drained and undrained shear strength, laboratory and field testing of earth materials for slope stability.
CE522 - Tunnelling (3 + 0) 5
Introduction to tunneling: art and engineering, geological aspects of tunneling, tunneling methods: soft ground, rock or adverse ground conditions, ground treatment in tunneling, stresses and displacements associated with excavation of tunnels, design and support of tunnels, application of numerical analysis codes for tunneling.
CE525 - Construction Planning and Cost Estimating (3 + 0) 5
Introduction to construction project management, tendering process, public procurement law, public procurement contract law, tender documents, cost engineering and quantity surveying, contractor`s bid price, progress payments, and taking-over and performance certificates.
CE527 - Earthquake Engineering (3 + 0) 5
Seismic ground motion, introduction to earthquakes, causes of earthquake, seismic waves, factors affecting earthquake motion at a site, prediction of motion at a site, recording and processing of earthquake ground motion, single degree of freedom systems, formulation of the equation of motion, free vibration analysis.
CE533 - Design of Coastal Structures (3 + 0) 5
Introduction to coastal engineering, wave parameters and classification, wave transformation, wave generation and statistical analysis, design wave selection, wave-structure interactions, design of harbor structures, coastal sedimentation, design of shore protection structures, planning and design of coastal structures in Turkey.
CE542 - Advanced Materials of Construction (3 + 0) 5
Mechanical and durability properties of construction materials, properties and microstructure of concrete in fresh and hardened state, microstructure, types and various aspects of steel, plastics and composites in construction, innovative materials of construction and the interaction of construction materials with the environment.
CE543 - Advanced Concrete Materials (3 + 0) 5
Cement, aggregates and admixtures for concrete, properties of concrete in fresh and hardened state, types and various aspects of concrete, durability characteristics of concrete, future of concrete studies and the interaction of concrete with the environment.
CE554 - Computer Applications in Geotechnical Engineering (3 + 0) 5
Definition of geotechnical problems, Preliminary studies and design consideration in geotechnics, finite element method, Plaxis, exercises and case studies are based on the Plaxis computer programs, solving geotechnical problems by Plaxis.
CE555 - Research Methods in Civil Engineering (3 + 0) 7.5
Rigorous, scholarly research, particularly theses, literature review, empirical research design, formulating research questions, theory building, validity, reliability, quantitative and qualitative approaches, writing research proposal and publication, preparing for oral presentations.
CE556 - Design and Construction of Tall Building Systems (3 + 0) 5
Overview of design philosophy and selection of the structural systems for tall buildings, criteria and loadings, structural modeling and analysis, structural and foundation design, fire safety engineering, construction planning and management of tall building projects.
CE563 - International Construction Contracts (3 + 0) 5
Legal and contractual terminology in construction contracts, EPC and PC contracts, structure and breakdown of standard construction contracts, contractual documents, standard provisions as to the time of contract, cost of contract and advanced payment, provisions regarding the quality and acceptance of construction work completed.
CE564 - Construction Scheduling and Cost Control (3 + 0) 5
Introduction and some advanced studies in a computer application like MS Project, extensively used for construction scheduling and cost control, time extension clauses in international construction contracts, cause-effect relationship to prove construction claims.
CE566 - Advanced Mathematical Methods in Civil Engineering (3 + 0) 5
First-, second- and higher-order linear ordinary differential equations, system of differential equations, power series solution of differential equations, Laplace transforms, partial differential equations, numerical integration and derivation, numerical solution of differential equations.
CE567 - Computer Aided Analysis and Design in Structural Engineering (3 + 0) 5
Introduction to Excel and Visual Basic, Excel and Visual Basic programming, fundamentals of Excel, database and pivot tables, design of reinforced concrete beams, design of reinforced concrete columns, userforms, analysis of reinforced concrete beams, design of steel beams and columns, introduction to SAP2000, simultaneous use of Excel with other p
CE571 - Integrated Coastal Zone Management (3 + 0) 5
Definition of coastal zone and its physical and ecological properties, coastal landforms, the global ocean and the climate system, coastal processes, coastal structures, pressures on the coast, coastal pollution, sustainability, integrated coastal zone management (ICZM) and ICZM in Turkey.
IE441 - Optimization in Data Analytics (3 + 0) 5
The concept of linear algebra, probability, linear programming, integer programming, mixed-integer programming, and non-linear programming applications in data analytics such as regression, classification, neural networks; introduction to Python programming and using different Python programming packages to solve data analytics problems.
SE427 - Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Technologies (2 + 2) 5
Introduction.Blockchain Basics.Consensus Algorithms.Cryptography Fundamentals.Blockchain Networks. Blockchain Programming. Blockchain Transactions, Mining, and Wallets. Smart Contracts. Cryptocurrencies. Blockchain Applications. Decentralization. Blockchain Security. Legal Aspects, Finance, and Economy. Future of Blockchain Technologies.
SE550 - Software Engineering (3 + 0) 5
Introduction to software engineering and related topics; software process and project metrics; project planning; scheduling and tracking; configuration management; software quality assurance; requirement analysis; data flow diagrams and related topics; design concepts and methods; implementation; testing methods and test strategies; object-oriented