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Program Educational Objectives Program Educational Objectives The graduates of the B.S. program of the METU Mechanical Engineering Department are engineering professionals who
B.S. program of the METU Mechanical Engineering Department aims its students to acquire the following knowledge, skills, and behaviors by the time of their graduation.
The undergraduate curriculum leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering is spread over eighth semesters in four years. Some courses in the curriculum are also offered in summer schools, enabling the students to distribute their course loads, to catch up with the program, as well as to supplement the program with additional courses they are interested in. The technical electives in the fourth year of the curriculum provide the students the opportunity to get specialized in the field of their interest. All undergraduate students of Mechanical Engineering are required to spend a minimum of four weeks, twice during their undergraduate study, in industry to gain practical experience during summers. A culminating feature of the Mechanical Engineering curriculum for senior level students is the Design Project Competition in the compulsory course ME 407 Mechanical Engineering Design. Groups of three-four students tackle with design problems which require analytical ability, judgment, technical skills, creativity and innovation and produce a working prototype of their design. The prototypes are tested and evaluated on the basis of some pre-established merit. The second compulsory course in the fourth year of the curriculum is ME 410 Mechanical Engineering Systems Laboratory. Groups of three students conduct experiments on systems such as internal combustion engine, turbomachinery, energy conversion equipment, metrology-quality control in production, vibrating machinery, machine tools, etc., which might not have been fully covered in the compulsory courses of the curriculum.
There are four types of elective courses in the undergraduate program of Mechanical Engineering; namely,
More information on elective courses.
Click here for the prerequisite map of the undergraduate program. Bold arrows represent mininum DD, normal arrows represent minimum FD prerequisites.
The undergraduate program in Mechanical Engineering was evaluated and judged to be substantially equivalent to similarly named accredited programs in U.S.A. by ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc.) for the first time in 1996, and became the first Mechanical Engineering program in Turkey obtaining such an evaluation. The program was re-evaluated by ABET in 2004 according to EC2000 criteria and again found to be substantially equivalent to similarly named accredited programs in the U.S.A. In the Fall of 2009, the undergraduate program has been evaluated for full accreditation by ABET and the process is still in progress.
* Students who started Mechanical Engineering program prior to 2006-2007 academic year have to take one more NTE or ENG 311 to graduate. Click here for the table showing the recent semesters in which technical electives were offered. |
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