Our department was established in 2011 and began offering education in the same year. It currently employs four professors, four associate professors, three assistant professors, a lecturer, and seven research assistants. In addition to the laboratories within the department, the facilities available at the Central Research Laboratory (MERLAB) are utilized for education and research. Along with undergraduate education, master’s and doctoral degrees are also offered under the Materials Engineering program of the Graduate School of Natural Sciences.
All levels of education in our department are delivered 100% in English. Our students have the opportunity to attend the English preparatory program provided by the university to enhance their language skills before beginning their faculty education. Those with sufficient language skills can bypass the preparatory year by passing the exemption exam and start their education directly. Our department is located in the 15 Temmuz Şehitleri Binası in Etlik.
Our academic staff, graduates of leading universities in Türkiye and around the world, conduct education and research in the fields of metallic, ceramic, polymer, composite, and nanomaterials.
The mission of the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering is to provide our graduates with a well-rounded materials engineering education in order to meet the needs of industry, academia, and government; to conduct edge-cutting dynamic research at the frontiers of the metallurgical and materials engineering; and to provide an integrating and leadership role to the broad multi-disciplinary metallurgical and materials engineering community.
Through its actions in teaching, research, and public service, the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering aims for a national and international presence in metallurgical and materials engineering as indicated by highly-cited scholarly publications, outstanding leadership in the profession, and the education of a diverse group of highly-qualified graduates.
Metallurgical and Materials engineering has transformed significantly every aspect of the modern life in our times. Reflecting on this public importance, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering formed 6.1% of the scientific papers indexed by the Science Citation Index-Expanded (SCIE) and Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), surpassing all fields of the engineering including Mechanical Engineering and Computer Engineering as well as all the other basic sciences such as Physics and Chemistry. This finding provides for the fact that metallurgical and materials engineering an interdisciplinary field with a great public importance in the society.
Our department is involved heavily in the transformation process by the metallurgical and materials engineering.
Metallurgical and Materials engineering is an interdisciplinary field and we are developing an interdisciplinary B.Sc. curriculum in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering to meet the heavy demands from the society in this way.
Examples of our current departmental research include nanocomposites, ceramics, thermodynamics, advanced materials, solid state physics, and interdisciplinary studies in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering.
We are preparing our students in B.Sc. and M.Sc. programs using an interdisciplinary focus to enable them to meet the industrial and societal demand in the fields including aerospace, biomedical, automotive, chemical, construction, electronics, energy, and telecommunication industries as well as the policy making organizations such as the state departments and the academic institutions.
We lay the foundations for successful careers in the interdisciplinary fields such as academia, state organizations, and industry.
Metallurgical and Materials Engineering graduates are expected to find careers in a wide-variety of fields including
Biomaterials
Biomedical engineering
Biomimetics
Bionanotechnology
Ceramic engineering
Composite engineering
Electronic, optical & magnetic materials
Energy and fuels
Manufacturing
Materials characterization
Materials chemistry
Materials finance
Materials management
Materials modeling
Materials physics
Materials planning
Materials Policy
Materials engineering
Metals and alloys
Molecular engineering
Nanotechnology
Opto-electronics
Photonics
Polymer engineering
Process engineering
