Our department was established in 2011 and started education in the same year. Our department employs three professors, six associate professors, four assistant professors, and nine research assistants. In addition to the laboratories within the department, the facilities of the Central Research Laboratory (MERLAB) are also used effectively for education and research activities. Along with undergraduate education, master's and doctoral degrees are also offered under the Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Materials Engineering program.
Our department is located in the 15 July Martyrs Building in Etlik. Our academic staff, who graduated from leading universities in Turkey and the world, continue their education and research activities in the fields of metallic, ceramic, polymer, composite, and nano materials.
To provide our graduates with a comprehensive and versatile engineering education in line with the needs of industry, higher education, and the state; to conduct advanced research in the developed areas of the field, and to play a pioneering and integrative role in interdisciplinary studies.
To produce highly cited scientific publications through education, research, and social contribution activities, to assume an outstanding leadership role in the field, and to become a nationally and globally recognized department by raising highly qualified graduates.
The main source of progress in technology is the developments made in the field of materials. Academic publications produced in the field of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering have left behind fields such as Mechanical, Electrical-Electronics, and Computer Engineering, as well as basic sciences like Physics and Chemistry, constituting 6.1% of the articles within the scope of the expanded Science Citation Index (SCIE). This clearly demonstrates the interdisciplinary importance of our department.
Our department conducts studies on current topics such as metals, nanocomposite materials, ceramics, thermodynamics, advanced materials, and solid-state physics. We prepare our students with an interdisciplinary vision for a successful career in the aviation, biomedical, automotive, energy, and telecommunication sectors, as well as in academic and public institutions.
The main fields where our graduates can find job opportunities: