Master's Program in Earthquake Risk Reduction
Head of Program : Prof. Dr. Halûk Özener
Professors : D. Sinan Akkar, Mustafa Aktar*, M. Nuray Aydınoğlu*, Eser Çaktı, Ayşe Edinçliler, Mustafa ErdikI, Semih Ergintav, Cemil Gürbüz*, Onur Gürkan*, Hayrullah Karabulut, Nurcan Meral Özel, Haluk Özener, Erdal Şafak, S. Bülent Tank, Niyazi Türkelli*
Associate Professors : Fatih Bulut, Çağrı Diner, Aslı Doğru, Ufuk Hancılar, A.Özgün Konca, Gülüm Tanırcan
Assistant Professors : Karin Şeşetyan.
Intructors: Dr.H.Onur Yılmaz
* Part-time
† Professor Emeritus
A broad spectrum of topics from earthquake physics to earthquake damage mitigation strategies are offered with the purpose of establishing a graduate program to those who need to specialise in earthquakes and earthquake risk mitigation due to their professional employment (in insurance sector, disaster affair departments, engineers and architects in municipalities, earthquake rescue teams, etc.) and thus to increase the number of educated and trained people in earthquake risk mitigation in related sectors.
The program requires three semesters to complete a minimum of 35 credits of course work with a minimum of 12 courses and a graduate project. It is required to take a minimum of 14 credit from the required courses and a minimum of 6 elective courses. A maximum of 3 courses may be selected from the undergraduate programs if the student did not take these courses during his or her undergraduate education.
The students who have successfully completed the requirements of the Earthquake Risk Reduction Program will receive a Master of Science (M.S.) in Earthquake Risk Reduction degree.
Required Courses
| First Semester | Cr. | |
| ERR 500 | Communication Skills | 2 |
| ERR 501 | Statistics and Probability | 3 |
| ERR 502 | Seismology and Plate Tectonics | 3 |
| ERR 510 | Introduction to Applied Geophysical Methods | 3 |
| ERR 514 | Strong Ground Motion and Simulation | 3 |
| ERR 520 | Experimental Methods in Earthquake Engineering | 3 |
| ERR 524 | Urban Information Systems | 3 |
| Second Semester | ||
| ERR 503 | Seismic Hazard on Microzonation | 3 |
| ERR 505 | Introduction to Vulnerabilities | 3 |
| ERR 512 | Observational Seismology | 3 |
| ERR 518 | Earthquake Response Analysis of Structures I | 3 |
| ERR 522 | Structural Monitoring and System Identification | 3 |
| ERR 526 | Earthquake Protection of Historical Structures | 3 |
| ERR 532 | Space Geodetic Techniques | 3 |
| ERR 536 | Urban and Regional Planning | 3 |
| Third Semester | ||
| ERR 504 | Urban Earthquake Loss Assessment | 3 |
| ERR 516 | Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering | 3 |
| ERR 528 | Vulnerabilities II | 3 |
| ERR 530 | Earthquake Response Analysis of Structures II | 3 |
| ERR 534 | Earthquake Insurance | 3 |
| ERR 538 | Urban Sociology and Disasters | 3 |
| ERR 590 | Project | 3 |
