The Department of Chemical Engineering was opened in 2010 within the Faculty of Engineering and started admitting students to the Master`s Program in the 2011-2012 academic spring term. The undergraduate program of the department started to admit students to both regular education and secondary education in the 2012-2013 academic year. The academic staff of the department consists of 1 professor, 4 associate professor, 4 doctoral faculty members, 3 doctoral research assistant, 2 research assistants and 1 doctoral lecturer (specialist) and 1 administrative staff is structured.
- Department of Basic Operations and Thermodynamics
- Chemical Technologies Department
- Department of Process and Reactor Design
Today, chemical engineers have the opportunity to work in a wide range of industries, and these fields cover very different applications from nano-technology to biotechnology, from food industry to petrochemical industry, from textile and paper industry to material-metallurgy industry, from cement industry to fertilizer industry. A chemical engineer can be involved in any field of study, from design to production, from process control to research and development.
In the first two years of the undergraduate program, courses in basic sciences such as Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry are predominant, and from the second year, basic engineering and field-specific courses are given. There are Project Planning and Designing courses for the use of the information obtained in undergraduate education in professional life, and laboratory and application courses for chemical engineering laboratory studies. With the elective courses available in the undergraduate program, the student is given the opportunity to take courses in the fields of interest, from the undergraduate programs of different departments, non-technical elective courses and social issues. In addition, successful students have the opportunity to graduate from a different program other than the Chemical Engineering Department program, thanks to the double major program structure.