Graduate School of Sciences | Department of Chemical Engineering | Doctorate Degree (Ph.D)

Profile of the Programme

Chemical Engineering Ph.D Program pursues the goal of graduating qualified researchers in the area of Chemical Engineering. The Doctorate degree requires course work and thesis research. The students will conduct original research and prepare a thesis, then make an oral defense of their completed research. Students require about four years beyond the Master's degree to complete a Ph.D. program. This program intends to include all kinds of practical and the theoretical aspects of the field of study and it aims at enabling students with the opportunity to specialize in one of the areas in Chemical Engineering to equip students with the ability to do research in the area.

Programme Director & ECTS Coord.

BÖLÜM BAŞKANI
PROF. DR. ELİF AKBAY
BÖLÜM BAŞKAN YARDIMCISI
ARAŞ. GÖR. MURAT TAMER
ANABİLİM DALI BAŞKANI
PROF. DR. ELİF AKBAY

General admission requirements stated under Info on the Institution on this website are being applied to start this programme.

Recognition of Prior Learning

Depending on the degrees awarded, theoretical or practical courses taken as part of a degree (completed or not completed) may lead to recognition of these as prior learning by the programme administration. The students who have taken courses in another institution in Turkey or abroad can ask for credit and grade transfer. The executive boards of relevant programme will decide on the courses to be transferred covering students' entire academic program once and for all with the condition that the request for transfer be made within the first week of the academic year, the requests cannot be repeated.

Qualification Requirements and Regulations

Access to Further Studies

May apply to post doctorate programmes.

Graduation Requirements

A student with an MA/MS degree is required to successfully complete a minimum of 7 courses, not less than 52,5 ECTS credits on the other hand student without an MA/MS degree enrolling in the doctorate programs is required to successfully complete a minimum of 14 courses not less than 105 ECTS credits. Both groups of students are required take the required Field Specialization course, pass the qualifying exam, have an accepted dissertation proposal and successfully compete doctorate dissertation work with a minimum of 60 ECTS credits, have a minimum GPA of 3.00/4.00 and no letter grades lower than CC and no YT, DZ grades.
The PhD program requires the following:Students with a master’s degree are required to complete a minimum of 7 courses providing no less than 52.5 ECTS credits. They need to pass the qualifying exam, have an accepted thesis proposal, take Field Specialization course and successfully complete doctorate dissertation work with minimum of 60 ETCS credits. Students without a master’s degree are required to successfully complete a minimum of 14 courses providing no less than 105 ETCS credits. They need to take a seminar course, pass the qualifying exam, have an accepted thesis proposal, take a Field Specialization course and successfully complete doctorate dissertation work with minimum of 60 ETCS credits.In the PhD program, the maximum duration to successfully complete credit courses and the seminar course for students who hold a master’s degree is 4 semesters; for those with a bachelor’s degree is 6 semesters. During this period, in the first two semesters or in the any following semester, students having a GPA below 2.00 will be dismissed from the institute. To be considered successful, a PhD student is required to get a grade of CC, YT or above and achieve a minimum GPA of 3.00. Students with a graduate degree at the end of 4th semester, students without a graduate degree at the end of 6th semester will be expelled from the institute if they do not meet these requirements.After successfully completing course requirements the latest date to take the qualifying exam, for students with a graduate degree is the end of the 5th semester; for students without a graduate degree is the end of 7th semester. A student who fails the qualifying exam takes it again in the next semester. If the student fails the second qualifying exam, he/she will be dismissed from the PhD program. A student who successfully passed the qualifying exam, at the latest within 6 months, is required to orally defend the aim, methodology and work plan of his/her dissertation proposal to the thesis committee.A student, whose dissertation proposal was rejected, has the right to choose a new supervisor and dissertation topic. In such case, a new thesis committee can be assigned. The next defense of the dissertation proposal must be held within 3 months for students want to continue with the same advisor; or within 6 months for students who changed their supervisor and dissertation topic. If the dissertation proposal is rejected again, the student will be dismissed from the related institute.For the student whose dissertation proposal was accepted, thesis committee meets twice a year, once in January-June and once in July-December. At least 1 month before the meeting, the student is required to submit a report to the committee members. In this report, a summary of the studies made so far and the future study plan is described. Thesis committee determines whether the study is satisfactory (YT) or unsatisfactory (YZ). A student who gets YZ grade consecutively two or intermittent three times will be dismissed from the related institute.A student in the PhD program is required to write the research results in the accordance with the related institute’s guidelines and orally defend his/her thesis. If the thesis is not accepted at the defense, the student will be dismissed from the related institute.

Occupational Profiles of Graduates

Graduates of the Chemical Engineering Program find jobs mainly in the following areas: petroleum refineries, food and beverage, medicine, paper, polymer, water treatment, electricity production, textile, semi-conductors, perfume and cosmetics, detergent, paint, fertilizer and cement industries, and universities.

Examination Regulations, Assessment and Grading

Grade	Coefficient
AA	4,0
AB	3,7
BA	3,3
BB	3,0
BC	2,7
CB	2,3
CC	2,0
CD	1,7
DC	1,3
DD	1,0
FF	0,0