The Department of Chemical Engineering was opened in 2010 within the Faculty of Engineering and started accepting students for the Master`s Program in the spring semester of 2011-2012. The first student admissions for the Undergraduate Program of the department, both for regular education and evening education, started in the 2012-2013 academic year. As of the 2024-2025 academic year, the 7+1 workplace application education model has been adopted. The academic staff of the department consists of 2 professors, 3 associate professors, 5 assistant professors, 4 assistant professors, 1 research assistant and 1 administrative staff, and the department is structured in the following three main branches of science.
- 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.