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Acting Director : Burak Demirel

Assistant Directors : İbrahim Raşit Bilgin, Ulaş Tezel

Professors : İbrahim Raşit Bilgin, Nilgün Cılız, Burak Demirel, Ferhan Çeçen, Nadim Kamel Copty, Ayşen Erdinçler, Bahar İnce, Turgut Tüzün Onay, Melek Türker Saçan, Miray Bekbölet†, Nilsun İnce†, Fatma Öztürk

Associate Professors : Başak Güven, Ulaş Tezel

Assistant Professors : Pınar Ertör Akyazı, Cem İskender Aydın, İrem Daloğlu Çetinkaya, Berat Zeki Haznedaroğlu, Hasan Fehmi Topal, Melike Kiraz Safari

Instructors : Ceyda Senem Uyguner Demirel, Tamer Atabarut

Assistants :Açelya Eren, Başak Kılıç, Berivan Ülger Vatansever, Elif Bal Özdaş, Fahri Koray Sakarya, Gökçin Gül, Hatice Aygün Karaçay, İzel Uygur, Mehmet Can Tunca, Müge Niğdeli, Ömer Uzun, Recep Can Altınbağ, Suat Vardar, Merve Uzun

*Part-time

† Professor Emeritus

The Institute offers graduate studies in M.S. and Ph.D. levels in the fields of Environmental Sciences and Environmental Technology. The M.S. program requires at least 24 credit hours of course work, 1 seminar and a written thesis. The Ph.D. program requires at least 24 credit hours of course work, 1 seminar, and a written dissertation. The Ph.D. candidates are required to pass a Comprehensive Examination before they commence their thesis work.

In the M.S. and Ph.D. programs the following degrees are given:

Students with an engineering background receive an M.S. or Ph.D. in Engineering upon completion of the M.S. or Ph.D. program in Environmental Technology.

Students with an engineering or pure sciences or social sciences background receive an M.S. or Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences or M.S. or Ph.D. in Social Environmental Sciences upon completion of the appropriate M.S. or Ph.D. program in Environmental Sciences.

Students with a pure sciences background receive an M.S. or Ph.D. in Environmental Technology upon completion of the M.S. or Ph.D. program in Environmental Technology.

Scope and Objectives

The goal of the program is to prepare professional environmental scientists, engineers and researchers who can deal with the complexities of environmental problems, propose scientifically and economically meaningful solutions, develop recommendations for sound policies, and devise means to implement the policies adopted. Furthermore, the Institute aims to emphasize the importance of appropriate environmental technologies, intending to act as a leader institution for developing countries.

Fields of Specialization:

A. Urban Waste Management and Renewable Energy (W2E)
B. Pollution Control and Modeling (PCM)
C. Molecular Ecology and Microbial Biotechnology (MNM)
D. Socio-Ecological Sustainability (SES)

Specified Elective Classes:

A. Urban Waste Management and Renewable Energy (W2E)

ESC 509 Resource Conservation for Energy, Fuel and Chemicals
ESC 518 Fundamentals of Anaerobic Digestion Processes
ESC 521 Air Pollution Modeling
ESC 531 Urban Waste Management
ESC 536 Renewable Energy Sources and Environmental Aspects
ESC 554 Bioenergy and Biofuels

B. Pollution Control and Modeling (PCM)

ESC 503 Transport of Pollutants in the Environment
ESC 516 Water and Wastewater Treatment: Physicochemical Processes
ESC 517 Water and Wastewater Treatment: Biological Processes
ESC 524 Water Reuse
ESC 527 Environmental Modelling
ESC 551 Environmental Chemistry
ESC 572 Global Environmental Systems

C. Molecular Ecology and Microbial Biotechnology (MNM)

ESC 555 Genetic Data Analysis
ESC 557 Environmental Microbiology
ESC 558 Concepts and Models in Ecology
ESC 559 Molecular Ecology and Evolution
ESC 560 Molecular Ecology and Microbial Biotechnology Lab.
ESC 569 Microbial Biotransformation and Genetics

D. Socio-Ecological Sustainability (SES)

ESC 541 Environmental Economics
ESC 549 Climate Change Policy
ESC 577 Dynamic Modelling of Socio-Ecological Systems
ESC 578 Systems and Sustainability
ESC 539 Environmental Governance
ESC 542 Ecological Economics

MASTER OF SCIENCE PROGRAM IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES (WITH THESIS)

Total: 24 Credits / 126 ECTS

* "Specified Elective Courses" must exclusively be selected from amongst a list of courses within the categories of either "Molecular Ecology and Microbial Biotechnology", or "Socio-Ecological Sustainability" concentration areas.

MASTER OF SCIENCE PROGRAM IN ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY (WITH THESIS)

Total: 24 Credits / 126 ECTS

* "Specified Elective Courses" must exclusively be selected from amongst a list of courses within the categories of either "Urban Waste Management and Renewable Energy", or "Pollution Control and Modeling" concentration areas.


DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY PROGRAMS

The course load requirement for the Ph.D. program is 24 credit hours. Students with an M.S. degree in a field other than environmental sciences or engineering may have to complete prerequisite core courses from ESC M.S. programs before starting to take the PhD program courses.

In addition, the students have to register to the non-credit Esc 700 Ph.D. Seminar and Esc 790 Ph.D. Thesis. All students registered in the Ph.D. Program are expected to complete and present a Ph.D. dissertation at the end of their studies to fulfill the requirements of the Institute for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY PROGRAM IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Total: 24 Credits
ECTS: 246

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY PROGRAM IN ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY

Total: 24 Credits
ECTS: 246