Fırat University
| Firat University | |
|---|---|
| Fırat Üniversitesi | |
 University Seal | |
| Established | 1975 |
| Type | Public |
| Rector | Prof.Dr.Kutbeddin Demirdağ |
| Academic staff | 1,134 |
| Admin. staff | 339 |
| Students | 31,361 |
| Undergraduates | 29,164 |
| Postgraduates | 1,682 |
| Doctoral students | 515 |
| Location |
Elazığ, Turkey 12°20′42″N 98°45′54″W / 12.345°N 98.765°WCoordinates: 12°20′42″N 98°45′54″W / 12.345°N 98.765°W |
| Campus | Urban |
| Former names | Elazığ Technical College, Elazığ State Academy of Engineering and Architecture |
| Language of Education | Turkish and English |
| Colors | Burgundy and White |
| Website | www.firat.edu.tr |
Fırat University is a state university based in Elazığ, Turkey. The university was founded in 1975 and named after the Turkish name of the Euphrates River which originates near Elazığ. Being one of the major academic institutions in the Eastern Turkey, the university has twelve schools, four institutes, one state conservatory, three vocational high schools and twenty one research centers with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological advancement and research.
History
Initially opened as Elazığ Technical College in 1967, and renamed as Elazığ State Academy of Engineering and Architecture, Fırat University was established and gained its current name in 1975 with the School of Veterinary Medicine making up the core program and structure of the university. The School of Veterinary Medicine which was founded in 1970 as a distant school of Ankara University Elazığ, still continues to be one of the best veterinary schools in the country. With the opening of the university, the School of Arts and Sciences was created and The Academy of Engineering and Architecture was restructured and renamed as the School of Engineering. School of Medicine and School of Technical Education were established in 1983, followed by the School of Fisheries in 1992, the School of Education in 1998 and School of Communication in 2001.
Faculties
- Faculty of Education
- Faculty of Communication
- Faculty of Sciences and Letters
- Faculty of Economics and administrative Sciences
- Faculty of Theology
- Faculty of Communication
- Faculty of Engineering
- Faculty of Fisheries
- Faculty of technical Education
- Faculty of Technology
- Faculty of Medicine
- Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
Faculties
- Faculty of Engineering
Department of Bioengineering
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Department of Mechanical Engineering is one of the first departments established with Department of Civil Engineering in 1967. With a history stretching back over 34, students, research studies of academic stuff and local industries have been served with the Manufacturing and Machine tools Lab, Internal Combustion Engineer Lab, Mechanic Lab, Mechanism and Machine Design Lab, Material Lab, Materials Lab, Measurement Lab, Heat Transfer Lab, Heat Technique Lab, Fluid Mechanics Lab and Hydraulic Mechanics Lab. Department of Mechanical Engineering continues activities of education training and researches by using all possibilities of the modern technology with its building total usage area of around 6450 m2 consisting of two blocks, each of them has classrooms, offices and laboratories. It has very important possibilities to contribute to students, academic staff and local industries in modern laboratories and work shop formation and, it’s proud of performing these activities and being better than yesterday.
By giving professional and graduate education, to train up and guide Mechanical Engineers with Bachelors and/or Doctorate Degrees, who are creative enough to participate in manufacturing, application and Research Development studies in industrial enterprises and research institutes successfully; have a systematic point of view at solving problems, are suitable for team works, environmentally – conscious, social, having economical and Professional ethic consciousness and responsibility, owning leading characteristics; and making researches providing information and technology development at international level form our mission.
Our vision is to be an internationally known department which gives an education at international level, targets to achieve scientific information and to develop technology, contributes to the development of economy and society standards.
Main Branches
Thermodynamics
Mechanics
Energy
Construction
Machine Theory
Manufacturing
Dynamics
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
The department is in the engineering campus and is the closest building to the student residents. The department has largest cafeteria at the engineering campus. It has 8 lecture rooms and 5 large Labs, which permit a range of experimental studies and provide essential support for both undergraduate and postgraduate students. The students have facilities to access to internet and there are several PCs and Labs to use for both computer aided study design and final year projects.
Electrical and electronic engineering continue to be buoyant industries, as indicated by the current demand for graduates. The School’s 4-year Eng course is designed to qualify students for careers in a wide range of industries, as well as in government and commercial organizations. These typically embrace electrical energy production, electrical drives and power electronics, electronic hardware and software, automation, robotics and control, communications, radio and television. 14 lecturers and 13 research assistants direct research and education in the department. Three technicians work in the labs as full-time.
Project work throughout the course underpins the necessity for a combination of practical and theoretical skills and abilities. In spring term of third year, the students are compulsory divided into four groups according to their interest areas after their graduation. These groups are: Power Electronics and Machines, Electronics and Telecommunication, Power Systems, Control and Computers. Each group takes intensive various courses as well as common courses. In the department there are five groups as listed below:
Circuit
Systems
Power Systems
Electrical Machines
Electronics
Telecommunication
Department of Industrial Engineering Industrial Engineering (IE) is a diverse discipline concerned generally with the design of production systems, operations management and research (OR), ergonomics, automation, CAD/CAM, quality control, information technology (IT), artificial intelligence (AI) and systems simulation, etc. Industrial engineer analyzes and specifies integrated components of people, machines and facilities to create efficient and effective systems that produce goods and services beneficial to mankind. The IE focuses on "how" a product is made or "how" a service is presented, as well as focuses on the "way" those products and services are made. The goal of IE is improving the "how" and measuring the improvement by using two general criteria: productivity and quality. Since IE deals with the "way" something is done, the IE tools emphasize "methods" of understanding systems. The industrial engineers generally work with tools that emphasize systems analysis and design. Since production systems are found anywhere there is an attempt to provide a service, as well as produce a part, the methodologies of IE are very applicable. IE students take the same foundation courses in other disciplines. They also take some of the basic engineering sciences like engineering drawing, statics, strength etc. They take IE specialty courses in their later years. The IE courses also employ mathematical models as a central device for understanding the systems. The IE students take several manufacturing courses, which deal with manufacturing processes and other courses closely associated with the manufacturing. Therefore, manufacturing industry has and remains a manifest concern of the IE. Since a major component in any production system is people, the IE has also a "person" section. The human aspect is called ergonomics, although elsewhere it is called human factors. The IE deals with systems that are measured discretely, rather than metrics which are continuous, that is one of the most subtle differences between the IE and other engineering disciplines. This emphasis becomes evident in optimization of production systems in that the industrial engineers are sequencing orders, scheduling batches, determining the number of materials handling units, arranging factory layouts and finding sequences of motions, etc. They deal almost exclusively with systems of discrete components. Thus, the IE has a different mathematical culture. The undergraduate students also take courses in probability and statistics. IE specialty courses that follow these include quality control, simulation, and stochastic processes. Computer science and Internet have great potential impacts on the IE, like other engineering disciplines, ranging from simulation to distance education and remote machining.
Department of Civil Engineering
Department of Civil Engineering, which was established at 1967 together with Mechanical Engineering, is one of the two oldest departments of College of Engineering. The department gained the capability of carrying out courses and practices by only its own faculty members, which were carried out by the faculty members of Middle East Technical University and Istanbul Technical University at earlier ages, throughout the development over 40 years. During this period, the technical facilities, laboratories, and equipment owned by the department have reached to an essential level for a contemporary education.
Education is given in an independent building of Civil Engineering, with a total residential area of 3276 m2. Department facilities consist of five classrooms (975 m2), two laboratories (508 m2), a classroom equipped with 25 computers, and a two-storey service building in which the faculty and administrative members officiate. There is also a three-storey laboratory (including office rooms for faculty members and laboratories for research and practice with a total area of 3400 m2) for Hydraulics Division, which was laid on foundation on October 1995 and was started service at Fall Semester of 1998-1999 academic calendar. The Hydraulics Laboratory was equipped by using the British Loan in 1995.
Department of Food Engineering
Food Engineering provides the students with an engineering education directed toward the application of modern science and engineering to the process, manufacture, preservation and distribution of food products. The theoretical and practical aspects of food industry ranging from the quality of raw materials to the final usage of products by consumers are the main concerns of food engineering. The food industry is large and of considerable economic and social significance in Elazıg, Turkey and the world. Employment opportunities at the B.S. level include production management, product and process development, process design and project engineering. Food preservation operations and food processing operations are examples of activities that require the skills of food engineering technologists and engineers. Therefore, students with this interest should select subjects to augment their background in chemistry, microbiology and process engineering. The department offers education at both undergraduate and graduate levels (M.S. and Ph.D.). The graduate programme aims to provide more depth and breadth to the undergraduate background of the students in different phases of food engineering such as food science and food technology.
Department of Software Engineering
Software engineering department aims to train software developer to work a wide range of software which is become increasingly critical from the subway, airport management, nuclear reactor management, defense and other areas of our country with close to zero defects in development techniques. This matters, equipped with contemporary theoretical and practical knowledge to train software engineers is very important role to manage technology in terms of economy. This task is given to software engineering department. In addition, to reveal different disciplines to solve problems in computer software based on data models and data structures are among the main objectives of Software Engineering. Students with the degree in Software Engineering:
- By analyzing the needs of the user, generating appropriate solutions
- Archive consensus such as points often leads frictions like time, cost, availability.
- Design appropriate solution to integrate engineering approaches using the ethical, social legal and economic interest
- To understand and implement techniques and models of software design, development and implementation
- To work effectively in software development environment, when necessary be able to leadership and communicate with user. In other words, to have project management skills.
- To intent to acquire capabilities such as to follow and apply developments in the various fields.
Department of Computer Engineering
Our department was founded in 1995. There are 16 Academic Staff within the department. The number of the students in our department is 350. There are Master and PhD programs for our department.
By utilizing all the facilities of the modern education, we are working to provide our students with an education level that helps them to compete with the other national and international universities. Our department graduates are being employed in the Public and Private Sector.
Department of Chemical Engineering
The Department of Chemical Engineering offers courses with laboratory training leading to the degrees of Bachelor of Science (BSc), Master of Science (MSc) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD). The courses are designed with consideration of the modern concepts of chemical engineering education and new requirements of the industry. The core curriculum provides a background in basic sciences, engineering sciences and economics to enable the graduates to be leading contributors to several interdisciplinary areas. In the light of these principles, the department of chemical engineering has prepared courses and set-up laboratories to serve undergraduate and graduate students. In the first two years, the undergraduate students take the general and fundamental engineering courses, such as chemistry, calculus, physics, material science etc.
In the last two years, however, the majority of courses are based on the chemical engineering areas. Along with the academic training composed of compulsory courses and 18 elective courses, the students are also required to participate in minimum 40 days industrial summer practicing program, in areas approved by the department, following the second and third years.
Education and teaching at the department are carried out by 20 members:
- 7 professors
- 2 associate professors
- 5 assistant professors
- 2 specialists
- 8 assistants
Major scientific divisions of the department are
1. Chemical Technology
2. Process
3. Unit Operation
4. Thermodynamics
5. Reactor Design
Department of Mechatronics Engineering
The missions of the department are to educate mechatronics engineers having potential to shape the present information age, take responsibilities in all stages of the technological evolution processes, work as a member of team and become excited with their work, integrate the topics of electrical-electronics, mechanical, control and computer engineering with design and manufacturing, and make cooperation with the customers and other teams and to encourage them to think suspiciously, protect ethical concerns, learn through the life and work for their country and also for the humanity.
Department of Environmental Engineering
Our department was founded in 1989. There are 16 Academic Staff within the department. The number of the students in our department is 350. There are Master and PhD programs for our department. By utilizing all the facilities of the modern education, we are working to provide our students with an education level that helps them to compete with the other national and international universities. Our department graduates are being employed in the Public and Private Sector.
Department of Geological Engineering
Our department was founded in 1977. There are 25 Academic Staff within the department. The number of the students in our department is 387. There are Master and PhD programs for our department. By utilizing all the facilities of the modern education, we are working to provide our students with an education level that helps them to compete with the other national and international universities. Our department graduates are being employed in the Public and Private Sector.
Research opportunities
Fırat University has been trying to develop computers, ballistics search, inertial guidance in connection with defense research during the last twenty years. In the past 20 years, Fırat University's educational programs have expanded beyond the physical sciences and engineering into social sciences like economics, linguistics, political science, medical science, dental surgery, architecture and management. Fırat University is characterised by its unique study and research opportunities. Social issues can be studied in the real-life-lab setting of East Anatolia. Major specific location allows in research the results of which are of great international interest. Our approach in research and teaching is proceeding systematically and integrating sustainability right from the start.
Main research areas determining our profile are the environment, material, construction, and information/communication technology, ballistics search and social sciences. Excellent studying conditions in new teaching and lab facilities with modern equipment provide effective learning. And also research expenditures are increasing every year.
Libraries
Fırat University Libraries have including the different parts like physical sciences, medical sciences, engineering resources, social sciences, economics, philosophy, linguistics, political science and management. In addition several academic departments also have their own libraries.Fırat university has at least one hundred thousand book in its own library.
Facilities
Fırat University has a Youth and Sports Club, Aviation Club, Theatre Branch, Folk Dances Group, Mountaineering Branch, and many other social, cultural, scientific and sports clubs. An objective of the University is to develop international links[citation needed].
Since 2006, when Firat University signed its first institutional contract within the Erasmus Programme for student exchange, 1813 students and 415 teaching staff have visited EU countries, and the University has received 374 students for one or two semesters. For the 2011 academic year th University has bilateral agreements with 183 universities in 15 European countries.
Accommodation
The majority of accommodation is within walking distance of the campus. There is mass housing, including 304 flats for academic and administrative staff, and private dormitories for students. Accommodation for each Erasmus student costs 50 euros/month.
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