General Information

Fırat University Civil Engineering Department offers formal education programme at undergraduate degree. The programme are carried out in Turkish. At the end of four years of undergraduate education, graduates receive the title of ‘Civil Engineer’.

The education and teaching period of the formal ‘Civil Engineering’ programme affiliated to the Faculty of Engineering of Fırat University is carried out in the Fall and Spring semesters consisting of at least 14 weeks each. The academic calendar applied every year is determined by the decision of the University Senate.

The Department of Civil Engineering is one of the first departments of the Faculty of Engineering in 1967. The courses and applications, which were initially carried out by faculty members from Middle East Technical University and Istanbul Technical University, have reached a situation where they are carried out completely by their own staff within a development process of approximately 50 years. In this process, the technical facilities of the department and its laboratories and equipment have also reached the level required for a modern education. Education and training is carried out in the independent Construction Department building. There are 5 classrooms, 2 laboratories and a computer laboratory equipped with 50 computers in this building with a total area of 3276 m². The total area of the classrooms is 975 m2 and the total area of the laboratories is 508 m². There is a two-storey service building in the department where teaching staff and administrative staff work. In addition, there is a Hydraulics Laboratory with application and research laboratories and academic staff rooms, the foundation of which was laid in October 1995 and put into service in the 1998/1999 Fall semester. This laboratory is independent from the main building of the Civil Engineering Department and has a total area of 3400 m² and three floors. A significant part of the equipment in the laboratory was acquired by the department with a British loan in 1995. In addition, TUBITAK and SPO projects completed by the faculty members of the department have provided important equipment to the department.