Course adjustment and exemption procedures are carried out in accordance with the Exemption and Adjustment Procedures Regulation of Istanbul Technical University.
Exemption and Adjustment Procedures Regulation

1. Graduates will demonstrate proficiency based on current and high-level specialistic knowledge and skills essential to innovative and interdisciplinary context of textile engineering.
2. Graduates will be recognized for excellence and independence in generation of new ideas, methods, designs and applications contributing to the progress in the field of textile engineering.
3. Graduates will demonstrate broadened perspectives and skills in the development of social, scientific and ethical values.
4. Graduates will have talent and equipment above the average of our country and the world in terms of academic background; They will show leadership in distinguishing and solving unknown structures of problems in the field of textile engineering and in generating knowledge to contribute to the development of science, technology and society.

Evaluating Student Success
The student success is evaluated considering Articles 56, 57, 58, and 59 of the Istanbul Technical University Graduate Education and Training Regulation Senate Principles.

ARTICLE 56 - Before the enrollment for the courses begins, the faculty member who offers the course informs the Program Executive Committee about the types, number and contribution percentage to the final grade of the studies within the semester, as well as requirements for a right to take the semester final exam. These requirements shall be finalized by approval of the Program Executive Committee and approval of the chair of the department, who declares them to the student and informs the Graduate School.

ARTICLE 57 - A student may appeal the final grade of a course within one week following the announcement of the grades. Appeals must be submitted to the Graduate School in writing. The relevant faculty member shall re-evaluate the student's success status and submit the result to the Graduate School within one week. Appeals not submitted within the prescribed time frame shall not be considered by the Graduate School.

ARTICLE 58 - Courses in graduate programs shall be evaluated according to the following grading system.

Grade Description	Grade	Scale
Excellent	AA	4.00
Very good plus	BA+	3.75
Very good	BA	3.50
Good plus	BB+	3.25
Good	BB	3.00
Conditional Pass	CB+	2.75
Conditional Pass	CB	2.50
Conditional Pass	CC+	2.25
Conditional Pass	CC	2.00
Fail	FF	0.00
Fail(No Exam)	VF	0.00

ARTICLE 59 - Students who wish to improve their cumulative grade point average may retake courses during the course-taking period. The most recent grade will be counted for the repeated courses.

There is no internship in this program.

1) The aim of the Ph.D. program; students will be able to conduct independent research, interpret and analyze scientific results with a broad and deep perspective, and identify the steps necessary to reach new syntheses. The thesis that will be prepared at the end of doctoral studies;

a) Innovation in science,

b)Development of a new scientific method,

c) Applying a known method to a new field,

it must fulfill one of those qualities.

(2) Doctorate program consists of at least seven courses, seminars, proficiency exams, thesis proposals and thesis studies for not less than twenty one credits for undergraduate graduate students and forty two credits for students who are accepted at undergraduate level not less than fourteen courses, seminars, proficiency exam, thesis proposal and thesis study.

(3) Ph.D. programs can also be organized in the form of integrated doctoral programs both at national and international levels.

(4) A student who has successfully completed at least twenty four credits and had been accepted to the Ph.D can be transferred to MSc programme. The transition to the master's program is determined by the Senate.

(5) Qualifying examination is held twice a year at the end of the fall and spring semesters. The students who complete the credits, the graduate with a weighted GPA of at least 3.00 and the accepted student must take the proficiency exam at the latest at the end of the fifth semester and at the end of the seventh semester at the latest. If it does not, he fails.

(6) Students who apply for admission to the proficiency examination are considered to be unsuccessful if they fail to take the proficiency examination.

(7) Students who fail the proficiency examination are taken back to the next semester. The student who has failed twice in the proficiency examination is dismissed from the University.

(8) The student who successfully completes the doctoral qualifying examination submits the thesis proposal, which includes the purpose, method and study plan of the research to be carried out, to the institute and the thesis monitoring committee, and defends it orally in front of the thesis monitoring committee within six months at the latest. In case the thesis proposal is not submitted twice in a row or the thesis monitoring committee is found unsuccessful two times in a row, the student is dismissed from the University.

(9) Student accepted as thesis proposal; The institute presents a written report on the development of the thesis work twice a year, once between January-June and July-December, and in front of the thesis monitoring committee within twenty-one days following this report. This report refers to the work he / she has done and the work plan he / she will make. The thesis work of the student is evaluated as successful or unsuccessful by the committee and it is informed to the institute director through a program executive board with a record. The student who has failed two times or intermittently three times by the thesis monitoring committee is interrupted.

(10) In order for the student to submit his/her doctoral thesis; One international scientific article produced from the thesis and written with the address of ITU among the institutions and institutions to which the student is affiliated, has been published in the international indexed and peer-reviewed journals given in the A1 category in the ITU Academic Promotion and Appointment Criteria for the relevant department, or has been accepted for publication in an international conference, with the thesis at an international conference. It is required that the relevant paper has been submitted.

Degree : Doctor of Philosophy    Title : Doctor of Philosophy

The textile engineers graduated from ITU are successfully recruited by a variety of companies in private sector and public foundations. The engineers graduated from Textile Engineering Department are equipped with the knowledge of the behavior of textile materials and the functions of machinery in textile and clothing technologies. They also have strong basic engineering knowledge, analytical thinking and problem solving skills, understanding of their professional and ethical responsibilities, high level of communication skills and they can renew themselves with their investigating character. They are employed in departments of textile plants and companies varying from small to big scale, i.e., production, planning, quality control, sales or marketing or in agencies of domestic or foreign companies for textile products and textile machinery, concentrated in different regions of Turkey. The graduates who wish to carry out their further studies are successfully accepted by national and international graduate schools.

Graduate Statistics

Prof. Dr. Nazan Okur
E-mail: okurn@itu.edu.tr
Web: https://research.itu.edu.tr/tr/persons/okurn

Prof. Dr. Nevin Çiğdem Gürsoy
E-mail: tekstillee@itu.edu.tr
Web: https://research.itu.edu.tr/tr/persons/tekstillee