Makine Mühendisliği Doktora Diploması

• Engineering graduates with sufficient theoretical and practical background for a successful profession and with application skills of fundamental scientific knowledge in the engineering practice.
• Mechanical Engineering graduates with skills and professional background in describing, formulating, modeling and analyzing the engineering problem, with a consideration for appropriate analytical solutions in all necessary situations.
• Engineering graduates with the necessary technical, academic and practical knowledge and application confidence in the design and assessment of machines or mechanical systems or industrial processes with considerations of productivity, feasibility and environmental and social aspects.
• Ability of designing and conducting experiments, conduction data acquisition and analysis and making conclusions.
• Ability of identifying the potential resources for information knowledge regarding a given engineering issue.
• Ability for effective oral and official communication skills in Turkish Language and, at minimum, one foreign language.
• Engineering graduates with motivation to life-long learning and having known significance of continuous education beyond undergraduate studies for science and technology.
• Engineering graduates with well-structured responsibilities in profession and ethics.

The students are subjected to various evaluation methods such as exam(s), homework, project(s), practice(s) and final exam. The evaluation methods include: written exam(s), true-false test(s), short-answered test(s), multiple-choice test(s), oral exam(s), homework, project(s), designs(s), portfolio, and performance duties (application/laboratory/workshop/field work/seminar/presentation/term paper/dissertation). This part is explained in detail on the individual course information page for each course. All exams and other activities are graded based on 100 points. The midterm and final exams represent 40% and 60% of the final grade, respectively. However, a student who gets a grade below 30 out of 100 is graded as FF. A student obtaining one of the grades of (AA), (BA), (BB), (CB), (CC), (G), and (B) is considered successful in that course. To enter exams, students must meet following requirements that are specifically outlined in “İskenderun Technical University Regulation for Vocational and Undergraduate Education and Examination”: a) Enrolment for the course in question, b) At least 70% attendance of the course, c) At least 80% attendance of the practices in the course, d) Successfully completing practical projects. Other matters related to learning and exams are given in “Iskenderun Technical University Regulation for Vocational and Undergraduate Education and Examination”. Grade conversion is carried out from the 100 grade scale into the Letter grade scale and 4 point grade scale using the table given below for Bachelor’s Degree Programs at Iskenderun Technical University. Grade in Points Grade in Letters Grade in Points Status 90-100 AA 4,00 Successful 85-89 BA 3,50 Successful 80-84 BB 3,00 Successful 75-79 CB 2,50 Successful 70-74 CC 2,25 Successful 65-69 DC 1,75 Fail* 60-64 DD 1,25 Fail* 55-59 FD 0,75 Fail 0-49 FF 0,00 Fail NA 0,00 Not Attended/Not fulfilled practice requirement S: Successful in non-credited courses, U: Unsuccessful in non-credited courses, P: Successful in yearly courses at the end of first semester, EX: Exempted as a result of examination carried out by Mustafa Kemal University, NI: Not included in the calculation of Grade Point Average (GPA). To obtain the degree / to complete the program, it is required to have 60 ECTS credits of graduate courses and to complete the courses successfully. After completing the courses, a thesis must be submitted on a subject selected with the supervision of the advisor. The thesis study and research area courses must have a total of 180 ECTS credits. In addition, after the acceptation of the student’s thesis accepted, the student is required to make oral presentation his/her thesis in front of the assigned jury.

Original documents or their copies approved by the Institute necessary for registration are accepted. Registration process is based upon the applicant’s declarations on the status of the compulsory military service and the judicial records. The documents presented for the application shall not be asked again from the applicants who are entitled for the registration. Applicants must fulfill the conditions and succeed the prerequisite exam(s) necessary set by university and the HEC, in order to register to a certain program. Students who are already enrolled to programs in other universities in Turkey or programs abroad can apply to be transferred to the corresponding program as long as fulfilling the conditions set by the program, Institute and the University. Evaluation procedure is carried out at the beginning of the semester according to the circumstance of the student and the program applied for. Conditions of acceptance and registration are pronounced in the web page before the beginning of each fall and spring semester of the year.

The graduates of the Doctorate programme have many opportunities of work in various government and private sector organizations.

Qualification is continuous