Istanbul Medeniyet University Physics Engineering Department has started undergraduate education as of 2016-2017 academic year and continuous its educational activities in Göztepe North Campus of the university. Although our department are newly established, there are broad research opportunities in the fields of Semiconductors, Optoelectronics, Spintronics, Nanomaterials, Health Physics and Computational Materials Physics with the national and international projects.
Physics engineer is a person who examines the structure of matter in the universe and the interaction between them according to the basic rules and disciplines of physical science, and carries out education and research activities in order to transform the findings into technology and all kinds of applications.
Our graduates can easily find jobs in public and private companies or institutions where high technology is produced and used such as Aselsan, Havelsan, Roketsan, State Hydraulic Works, TUBITAK, Turkish Atomic Energy Agency, MTA, TSE, Turkish Armed Forces, private and public hospitals. Beside that our graduates are employed or take part as founders in the energy, health technologies, electronics, computer sectors and in many small and medium-sized enterprises engaged in innovation work.
Our academics are interested in research and projects to advance our perception of how nano and micro-sized materials behave and how electronic behavior changes. Some of our researchers are in the field of spintronics. The spin state of the electron enables the production of faster and more memory-stable electronic devices, semiconductor solar cells, organic and perovskite solar cells, light-emitting organic diodes (OLED). They are also working on materials and optoelectronic structures that have priority in the fields.
Our graduates will be able to work in different branches of science, make oral and written scientific publications and work on international projects. It is aimed that our graduates are primarily qualified to coordinate and direct the studies based on R&D. In addition, our graduates will have the authority to do business and sign on the issues specified in the Regulation of the Union of Chambers of Turkish Engineers and Architects, published in the Official Gazette dated 21.06.2007 and numbered 26559.
In our department, we have a research laboratory with state-of-the-art devices at all stages, from the production of basic device technologies to characterization and wet floors to measurement rooms.
Our department students participate in national and international competitions and get research support for their projects.
Our department has signed an ERASMUS agreement with the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain.
The undergraduate program of the Department of Physics Engineering consists of 8 semesters. The undergraduate program of the Department of Physics Engineering consists of 8 semesters. In the program, there are 58 courses with a total of 240 ECTS, 30 of which are ECTS courses in each semester. Among these courses, there are compulsory, field elective and non-field elective courses. Out of 240 ECTS courses, 179 ECTS is compulsory and 61 ECTS is elective (50 ECTS field elective, 11 ECTS non-field elective). 25% of the program courses are elective. Elective courses start to be given from the third semester. Students take one non-field elective course in the third, fourth and seventh semesters, two field elective courses each in the fifth and sixth semesters, and three area elective courses in the seventh and eighth semesters. Non-field elective courses can be taken from the elective course pool of Istanbul Medeniyet University or from the elective courses offered by other departments.
The courses in the undergraduate program of the Department of Physics Engineering are for a semester. In the application-oriented program, it is aimed to make the students use professional terminology and to gain manual skills in the laboratories. In elective courses, it is aimed to prepare the student for professional life in line with his/her field of interest. While the courses in the first and second years of the program give the student basic information about the field. The courses in the third and fourth years in addition to the basic information about the field aim to provide the knowledge, skills and competencies of the special fields that is required to focus on the future. The student takes the Graduation Work course in the year he/she will graduate. In this course, the student conducts a literature review on a specific subject, makes experimental and theoretical designs under the guidance and supervision of the faculty members, and presents what is learned in a scientific format to a jury that is determined by the department.
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