The Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering is the country’s oldest and most developed institution housing the country’s most prominent scientists and engineers. All the academic staff members either received their Ph.D. degrees from ITU or from reputable universities in the USA, Germany, the UK and Canada. All the academic staff has international work experience. Academic members who received their Ph.D.s from ITU have carried out scientific research activities in universities and research institutions in USA, Germany, Japan, and the UK. Most of the academic staff is active members of national and international scientific and engineering institutions and associations. The academic members in the department have established strong social and scientific relations with colleagues from national and international institutions.

The main strength of the department’s education comes from its academic staff that has the required knowledge, experience and skill for a contemporary teaching in metallurgical and materials engineering field. Through the national and international scientific and applied research projects conducted in the department, new laboratories have been built. These laboratories not only serve the research activities but also contribute to the improvement of the quality education provided by the department. The academic members in the department consider education and teaching as the most important part of their duties and make a considerable effort to improve the way they teach.

Scientific and applied research carried out as well as new topics and courses introduced: resulted in the enrichment of the opportunities offered to the students in terms of research and education. ITU ranked first among Turkish universities in eight subjects, including Materials Science, according to the 2022 QS subject ranking. Considering the ranking by subjects, the department ranks according to QS ranking 2022 is in the range of 251-300. All courses in the department are taught by the academic members of staff. 28 research assistants, who are at the same time Masters / Ph.D. students in the department help the academic members in the practice sessions and running of the laboratories. In addition, volunteer seniors and graduate students also help academic members in their research on a part-time basis and thus gain the opportunity to make the first step towards continuous professional development.

The members of the Department are aware of the importance of social activities on the students’ social being. These activities also provide opportunities to enrich the department’s environment, and team spirit as well. Currently, 35 students are the part of ITU and Faculty sport teams, namely ITU hornet, basketball, soccer, tennis, swimming and water polo. Starting from 1996, the departmental programs have been re-evaluated to meet the ABET EC 2000 criteria. Therefore, during the years of 2000-2002, our department has defined its mission and vision, program educational objectives and outcomes and has put them in effect and evaluated the success of these activities.

In addition to the restructuring of the course loads for the programs, the university has also decided to emphasize the importance of knowing another language preferably English to understand global developments and to communicate in the modern arena. For the enrolled students who do not have the sufficient command of English, an infrastructure providing one year of intensive language education has been set up: new classrooms have been built and language teachers, local and native, have been hired. Our department is maintaining its continuous development endeavor in light of the ABET criteria since 2004.


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Year	Number of Graduates
2014	4
2015	22
2016	34
2017	42
2018	41
2019	34
2020	65
2021	65
2022	63
2023	51
2024	56

Year	Number of Graduates
2013	81
2014	85
2015	61
2016	50
2017	58
2018	71
2019	57
2020	69
2021	74
2022	77
2023	73
2024	77