ENVÄ°RONMENTAL ENGÄ°NEERÄ°NG
Second Cycle Programmes
(Master's Degree)

D.1. General Information about Program

Research on environmental science and engineering began in 1990 with the establishment of the Environmental Research and Application Center at Hacettepe University. In 1993, a graduate program was developed with the establishment of Department of Environmental Science under the auspices of Institute of Science offering Master's of Science (M.Sc.) and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degrees. This is a sustainability-oriented program ensuring diversity in various topical areas of environmental engineering and science and offering courses that place emphasis on different subfields to balance educational materials from different subfields in the program.

Department of Environmental Engineering has an Advanced Research Laboratory with necessary equipment for research and technology development. The language of the program is Turkish. But to improve English speaking, reading, and writing skills of the students; textbooks, literature and other supplementary materials in English are used as course materials.

D.2 Qualification Awarded

Master's Degree

D.3. Level of Qualification

QF-EHEA: 2
EQF-LLL: 7

D.4. Provisions for Registration

Applications, admissions, and enrollments follow the rules and provisions of ‘'Hacettepe University Graduate Education and Exams Regulations''. Applicants from national/international universities with Bachelor degrees in Environmental, Chemical, Geological, Hydrogeological, Mining, Civil, Physics, Food, Mechanical, Agricultural, Forestry, Industrial, and Electrical Engineering, Urban Planning, Chemistry, Physics, Statistics, Mathematics, Biology, Economics, Public Administration, Law, and Business Administration and whose qualifications are approved by the Departmental Academic Committee may apply for admission.

If required, accepted students may be asked to take Scientific Preparation Program Courses following the propositions of the Departmental Academic Committee and approvals of the Department Chair and Board of the Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering.

D.5. Qualification Requirements and Regulations

Students have to take and successfully complete at least seven courses with 21 national credits, as well as a seminar course with three credits. These courses have to be approved by student's advisor and the Department Head. The total ECTS credits of the courses and the seminar are 60. Students have to complete a total of 120 ECTS credits with 60 ECTS credits allocated to the thesis.

Students are also allowed to take courses offered by other departments in the university or other universities so as to complete their credit requirements with the approval of their advisors.

Students who successfully complete their course requirements must prepare a thesis under the supervision of a faculty member acting as their advisor. The thesis proposals are submitted to the Department for the approvals of the Departmental Academic Committee, Department Chair and Board of the Institute for Graduate Studies in Science and Engineering. Thesis preparation and defence procedures follow the relevant articles of ‘'Hacettepe University Graduate Education and Exams Regulations''.

D.6. Specific Arrangements for Recognition of Prior Learning

Credit and student transfers from equivalent programs follow the rules and provisions of ‘'Hacettepe University Graduate Education and Exams Regulations''.

D.7. Goals and Objectives

Hacettepe University Department of Environmental Engineering Graduate Program aims to educate 21. century environmental engineers that have high level of professional theoretical and applied knowledge, effective communication skills, and ethical responsibility; possess high competence and effectiveness in their fields; take a more active role in the scientific community; lead initiatives for solving local, regional and/or global environmental challenges, and contributing to research for reaching sustainability by providing new ideas and solutions.

D.12. Occupational Profiles of Graduates with Examples

The vast majority of the graduates of the program work in various state agencies or private firms as environmental scientists, engineers, managers.

D.13. Access to Further Studies

QF-EHEA: 3
EQF-LLL: 8

D.14. Profile of the Programme

Students who are accepted to the program must complete 24 national credit courses; corresponds to 120 ECTS. In the program, the share of compulsory courses offered is 71% and the share of elective courses offered is 29%. All the students accepted to the program must take two assigned compulsory courses which are Numerical Methods In Environmental Engineering and Sustainability. In addition to compulsory courses, the students must take at least five courses from the pool of elective courses offered by the department or other departments, and a seminar course. Master students may take doctoral level courses too. This program is a Master of Science with thesis, and the students are oriented to thesis study at the third and fourth terms. The elective courses are taken upon the student superviser's advice compatible with the thesis topic. Thesis subject can be envisioned on the basis to bring a solution to a problem encountered in industry as well as relying on the new technological advances, trends, and innovative approaches. Thesis work can be experimental and computer-aided modeling study.

D.15. Examination Regulations, Assessment and Grading

Examination regulations, assessment and grading are as those set by Hacettepe University Institute of Science Graduate Education Regulations.

D.16. Graduation Requirements

Requirements are as those stated in the “qualification requirements and regulations” set by Hacettepe University Institute of Science Graduate Education Regulations.

D.17. Education Type

1. Full Time Education

D.18. Programme Director

Prof.Dr.Gülen GÜLLÜ

Hacettepe University

Department of Environmental Engineering

06800 Beytepe Ankara-Turkey

E-mail: ggullu@hacettepe.edu.tr

Web Address: http://www.cevre.hacettepe.edu.tr/

Telephone: +90 312 297 7800

Fax: 0090 312 2992053