Faculty of Computer Sciences

The demand for products and services of Information Technologies has been steadily increasing within the past 30 years. This steady increase is a natural result of widening of application areas and size and complexity of IT products. While IT industry creates its own demand within itself, its products also have become absolute necessities of competitiveness in all areas of production and service industries.

IT products and services possess an increasing strategic importance for countries and corporations, as they have been the driving factor behind most innovations in civil and military technologies and management. The primary resources needed to create IT products and services are Knowledge and Information, therefore the need for well educated people in IT technologies is continually rising. This rising demand for people educated in areas of Computer Sciences, Information Systems and Engineering can barely be supplied and this deficiency is mostly alleviated with people educated in general sciences and engineering.

The speed of innovation and expansion of application areas of IT make it rather difficult in our times to offer a single course of study in Computer Sciences and Information Technologies. In countries where the IT needs of industries vary greatly, different courses of study in areas such as Computer Engineering, Informatic Systems Engineering, Software Engineering and others are being offered. For example, there are more than 120 different courses of study in IT in U.S.A. Our University, in consideration of these facts, has established the Faculty of Computer Sciences.

The aim of this Faculty is to become a leading source of knowledge and information for the Turkish Informatic industry, to expand and improve principles, processes and techniques in Computer Engineering, Software Engineering and Industrial Systems Engineering, and to educate the much needed experts and scientists.

Three separate departments are formed within the Faculty: Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, and Industrial Systems Engineering. Courses of study in each department conform to principles and suggestions of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Elektronics Engineers) and ACM (Association for Computing Machinery). Student and Faculty exchange programs established with foreign universities will be utilized extensively.

"Computing & Creative Technologies" department of Abertay Dundee University in Great Britain is one of such exchange cooperations. Additionally, a "Center for e-Commerce" is established to further information exchange and research information transactions between firm-to-firm, firm-to-customer, customer-to-customer and firm-to-government. It is our aim to provide our students with all the necessary knowledge and skills in hardware, software, and all products of Information Technologies sufficient to satisfy the needs of national or international, public or private employers.