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The Department of Control and Automation Engineering is a young, dynamic, well-equipped, innovative, and inspiring department with a strong faculty and a wide range of infrastructure resources. Our department, which was established as a Division under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Galip Cansever—who worked in the fields of Measurement, Instrumentation, Electronics, and Automatic Control within the Department of Electrical Engineering—along with a few faculty members, has, since 2009, become one of the four active departments within the Faculty of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Yıldız Technical University—one of Turkey’s most renowned educational institutions in the field of engineering, with a history spanning over a century.
In a short time, our Department has established itself among the University’s departments with the highest admission scores and has begun to be recognized as one of the best in the country in its field. Highly specialized in the fields of automatic control and industrial automation, our Department offers two undergraduate programs: one in which all courses are taught in English, and another in which 30% of the courses are taught in English. In addition to the undergraduate programs, our Department offers master’s and doctoral programs. In these graduate programs, most courses are taught in English, and students who meet the language requirement may, if they wish, write and defend their theses in English. Currently, more than 900 students are pursuing undergraduate degrees, while more than 350 students are pursuing master’s and doctoral degrees. The undergraduate and graduate courses taught in English make our Department attractive to international students as well. |
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In a short time, our Department has established itself among the University’s top-ranked departments in terms of admission scores and has begun to be recognized as one of the best in its field in our country. Highly specialized in the field of automatic control and industrial automation, our Department offers two undergraduate programs: one with all courses taught in English and the other with 30% of the courses taught in English. We also offer Master’s and Doctoral programs. Currently, more than 500 students are pursuing their undergraduate degrees, while over 100 students are pursuing master’s and doctoral degrees.
The Department maintains strong relationships with both academic and research institutions as well as with industry. The effectiveness and continuity of these relationships are ensured through participation in scientific, technological, and industrial support programs. The department is structured as a center of excellence that contributes to the advancement of knowledge and expertise in the field of Control and Automation Engineering in Turkey and around the world through applied and theoretical research. The Department’s activities contribute to the development of science and technology in our country and their transformation for the benefit of society, spanning areas from the defense industry to modern transportation systems, from process control to the automotive industry, and from environmental modeling and monitoring systems to factory automation.
Academic Activities The Department’s goal is to equip students with engineering skills—ranging from computer engineering to electronic and electrical engineering—grounded in a solid theoretical foundation. Our Department, which offers Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Doctoral programs, admits students who have graduated with high grades from leading high schools for undergraduate degrees, and highly qualified students who have graduated from universities in Turkey and abroad for graduate degrees. For students admitted to our Department, student exchange programs with many universities abroad are available, supported by financial aid from ERASMUS, MEVLANA, the EU, and various government agencies. Our students can also benefit from scholarship opportunities funded by project budgets while working on research projects led by our Department’s faculty members. Students who achieve outstanding academic success are recognized with awards, admitted directly into graduate programs, and assisted in securing employment at leading institutions in their fields. Our Department, which provides carefully selected candidates with a broad and fundamental scientific foundation through high-level academic instruction, enables them to assimilate knowledge in a field that is changing and evolving at a rapid pace today. This ensures that our graduates are not only capable of tackling today’s engineering challenges but are also prepared for the demanding conditions of the future.
Excluding the one-year English preparatory program, undergraduate programs typically span four years. If we divide this period into three parts, the first consists of mathematics and physics courses offered as foundational sciences across a broad spectrum. During these first two years, students devote most of their time to these foundational science courses. The second phase consists of required departmental courses that include laboratory and practical sessions. Laboratory courses are concentrated toward the end of the second year and throughout the third year. These courses expose students to various fields within Control and Automation Engineering. Efforts are made to ensure students are not confined to a narrow field; rather, they are encouraged to gain broad-based engineering and technology knowledge, experience, and skills through experiments and projects in various subjects. In the third and final year, students are introduced to elective professional courses grouped by subject clusters. The courses in each cluster help students delve deeper into specific areas. Students select the courses they wish to take from these various groups, taking their own interests and preferences into account.
The top students from our department and other renowned institutions around the world are encouraged to pursue master’s and doctoral degrees and to specialize in specific fields by writing theses. In this way, the high-level education that outstanding students consciously choose to pursue paves the way for them to become tomorrow’s leaders in technology and academia. With approximately 100 graduate students, our department is on its way to becoming one of the most ambitious and sought-after departments in master’s and doctoral education. Upon completing their graduate studies, our graduates—who earn the titles of Master of Engineering and Doctor of Philosophy—continue their brilliant careers by advancing to key positions at prominent research institutions recognized in Turkey and around the world, as well as at high-tech and R&D companies and universities.
Research Activities Given the interdisciplinary nature of Control and Automation Engineering, our Department conducts research across a wide range of topics spanning diverse application areas. Our faculty members conduct their theoretical and experimental work both independently and in collaboration with leading experts in the field—within our Department, Faculty, and University, as well as nationally and internationally—publishing their findings as articles in prestigious journals and presenting them as papers at national and international conferences. Through an effective academic advising service, we encourage graduate and even undergraduate students to ensure that the research, design, and capstone projects they are required to complete during their studies contribute to existing knowledge and experience, provide solutions to industry problems, or are structured and completed in a way that leads to the development of new products. As members of a Department with such broad application areas as Control and Automation Engineering, our goal is to produce solutions, products, and process improvements that integrate the latest capabilities of rapidly evolving electrical-electronics-mechatronics, control, and automation technologies—that are integrated with the latest capabilities of these fields. Accordingly, the following research topics are among the primary areas of interest for our Department:
• Design, development, and applications of automatic control systems • Real-time control • Modeling and control of complex systems and processes • Robotics • Aeronautical Electronics (Avionics Engineering) • Transportation systems and traffic control • Cloud-based control and embedded network architectures • Process control • Environmental monitoring and modeling • Automotive Systems • SCADA and human-machine interface • Advanced automation systems • Parallel computing systems for control and automation • Communication networks in control engineering • Electronic systems and devices • Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing (CAD/CAM) • Signal processing and system analysis • Image processing and computer vision in control applications • Internet of Things • Electric drives • Security • Sensor and actuator technologies
Prof. Dr. Şeref Naci Engin Chair of the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, YTÜ
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