Our Strategic Goals

2026 Educational Goals

• Producing graduates with the university experience to lead the sector.
• Providing opportunities for our students to discover their potential.
• Providing learning experiences involving the most advanced technological and engineering applications.
• Ensuring the MÜDEK accreditation criteria in engineering education.
• Providing students with learning experiences they can add to their CVs through project-based elective courses in order to gain expertise in the sector.
• Maintaining undergraduate education and training on sound academic foundations with innovative and creative approaches.
• Evaluating holistic approaches in undergraduate programs and a MÜDEK-based curriculum specific to HKÜ Engineering.
• Increasing and enabling internationalization and nationwide promotion in undergraduate programs.
• Expanding teaching beyond the closed classroom environment through projects, and encouraging teaching methods based on experiment and project work.
• Increasing the level of research in undergraduate education and strengthening graduate education and teaching with innovative and creative approaches.
• Establishing mechanisms to encourage successful students with a high GPA in graduate programs.
• Improving the qualifications and increasing the number of PhD graduates, and developing methods to reach a more advanced level in the field of research.
• Encouraging undergraduate and graduate students to gain experience both domestically and internationally and increasing their job opportunities.
• Increasing the efficiency of graduate thesis processes.
• Renovating instruments and equipment worn out through the use of laboratories over time, and establishing new laboratories such as electromagnetics and antennas according to technological needs.
• Conducting studies in line with the aim of guaranteeing that students acquire the desired knowledge, skills and behaviors.
• In this context, preparing students for engineering practice through a capstone design experience that uses the knowledge and skills acquired in previous courses and includes engineering standards as well as realistic constraints and conditions.
• Achieving progress through the implementation of the MÜDEK program within the scope of our faculty’s accreditation process.
• Monitoring and improving activities in the fields of the graduation project course, M.Sc. thesis supervision and course load within the scope of education and training activities.
• Implementing new technologies in educational activities.
• Placing greater emphasis on laboratory course practices, which provide the environment for the practical teaching of courses during the academic year.
• Increasing laboratory facilities.
• Measuring the extent to which qualifications are achieved and making the necessary improvements through surveys.
• Applying project-based education as the main teaching method in HKÜ engineering education and introducing project-based education as a way of thinking in engineering education.
• Establishing nationally and internationally recognized engineering curricula and standards by ensuring MÜDEK accreditation and requirements.
• Developing and updating the physical infrastructure to provide a quality learning environment and facilities.
• Building an academic staff with high skills and capacity to contribute to faculty activities in the fields of education, research and entrepreneurship.
• Taking into consideration the following adopted program outcomes.

Program Outcomes

• PO1. To provide the ability to use mathematics, basic science and engineering knowledge.
• PO2. To provide the ability to design and carry out a project and to analyze and interpret the data necessary to reach a desired result.
• PO3. To provide the ability to design a system or process for specific needs.
• PO4. To gain the ability of interdisciplinary teamwork.
• PO5. To gain the ability to identify, formulate and solve civil engineering problems.
• PO6. To gain professionalism and ethical responsibilities in the profession.
• PO7. To improve written and verbal communication skills.
• PO8. To help understand the effects of the engineering profession at the global and social level.
• PO9. To provide an understanding of the necessity of lifelong learning and the ability of lifelong learning.
• PO10. To provide knowledge about current events and the effects of these events on the engineering profession.
• PO11. To provide the technical knowledge, ability and the skill to use modern engineering tools necessary for civil engineering applications.
• PO12. To provide the ability to analyze different engineering systems with an integrated approach.

Within the scope of the Built Environment Research and Innovation Center (YAÇEM), to develop interdisciplinary research groups, to increase and deepen the research culture and to advance scientific expertise in the fields of Computer, Electrical-Electronics and Civil Engineering, including the following subjects:

• Artificial Intelligence
• Computer Vision
• Energy
• Material
• Building Information and Management

2026 Research Goals

• Creating research groups focused on specific subjects in the fields of Engineering and Architecture.
• Carrying out research and development projects oriented to economic/social needs, and application projects oriented to society/industry, in fields such as Energy, Construction Material Technologies, Building Information Technologies and Management, Cultural Heritage, Artificial Intelligence and Computer Imaging.
• Maximizing the research potential of academic staff and gaining depth.
• Developing global information exchange, cooperation and partnerships.
• Becoming an effective and contributing faculty in the field of the Built Environment on a regional, national and international scale.
• Strengthening the culture of science, research, creativity and innovation at the HKÜ Faculty of Engineering.
• Maintaining qualified research and disseminating this culture.
• Making science, research, creativity and innovation visible.
• Strengthening the academic staff and resources, and increasing opportunities for greater use of research resources.
• Developing opportunities to transform research into economic value and social benefit.
• In this context, making progress by taking into consideration the criteria and scoring in the fields of funded projects, patents, TTO expert modules, SCI and publications, books and conferences.
• Taking measures to bring the academic studies carried out in our faculty to a better and more effective level and to turn them into practice.
• Further increasing interdisciplinary joint work and project topics.
• Determining topics that may be of common interest to the fields of Civil, Electrical-Electronics and Computer Engineering in a way that supports this interdisciplinary work in an incremental manner.
• Carrying out an integrative implementation across the whole faculty in phases, starting from the student level up to the academic staff level.
• Presenting the determined study topics to all our students and academics through an introduction at the faculty, and increasing the level of interest and awareness.
• Ensuring that the communication and academic work environment between academic staff and students becomes more efficient and productive, and that the results obtained are reflected in courses and find a field of application through projects.
• Integrating the Built Environment Research Center (YAÇEM), established to conduct research and development activities, more effectively into its field of activity.
• Ensuring that the existing culture is advanced further and that maximum benefit is obtained from the master’s and doctoral studies carried out at the Institute of Science to which the faculty is affiliated.
• Within the scope of the Strategic Plans, establishing interdisciplinary research groups with the Built Environment Research Center, increasing and deepening the research culture, and creating scientific expertise in the fields of Computer, Electronics and Civil Engineering.
• In addition, monitoring each year whether the research and development targets are achieved through the required publication performance evaluation and faculty member workload reports.
• Developing students’ analytical thinking capacities by having them carry out research and project studies, and providing them with lifelong learning skills and abilities.
• Having academic staff produce outputs such as books, articles, papers and patents through research projects, publications and sector-related application projects, and deepening the research culture by strengthening the Built Environment Research Center composed of research groups.

2026 Industry-Specific Activity Goals

• Collaborating with the sector in the field of the Built Environment, which requires interdisciplinary work, through YAÇEM.
• Providing scientific support to the sector through the exchange of ideas among academics from different disciplines.
• Creating an eco-system in which an environmental culture is instilled together with the ability to think critically and scientifically.
• Contributing to the environment, society, the city and the economy, particularly in the field of sustainability, which constitutes the principal aspect of our research vision.
• Providing our students with work experience and maturity by working in the sector while still students, at the final stage of project-based education, through Applied Education in Industry (COOP Training).
• Carrying out joint work with Kalyon Group in construction and energy systems projects, and deepening cooperation at various levels by contributing to research and development.
• Increasing cooperation with industry (Technopark – clustering); establishing close cooperation with engineering chambers and non-governmental organizations; and establishing and deepening the industry-academia network where the latest technology and knowledge in engineering applications is shared.

2026 Entrepreneurship Goals

• Supporting our students and graduates in establishing their own workplaces through campus-based and sector-based technoparks.
• Creating a network oriented to the business world, where the latest engineering practices and knowledge are shared and where practitioners can update their knowledge and skills through training and seminars.
• Developing strategic partnerships with Kalyon Group in the fields of energy systems and construction.
• Providing contribution and support to the entire construction sector in the field of BIM (Building Information Modelling and Management), which encompasses an interdisciplinary design and construction philosophy.

2026 Administrative Management Process Goals

• Ensuring that processes for the decisions taken at the Hasan Kalyoncu University Faculty of Engineering are conducted in a more participatory manner, and that the views of academics are obtained through meetings, informal discussions and e-mail held by the dean, vice deans and department heads.
• Ensuring that students’ expectations are taken into consideration through the interviews held with students during both office hours and class hours.
• Planning communications and interviews with important representatives of the sector who are also on the MÜDEK external advisory board, with employer organizations, with companies engaged in industry-cooperative education, with graduate students and with part-time faculty members.
• Applying the identified inputs in decision-making processes.
• Ensuring the continuous monitoring and improvement of processes, and creating suitable environments for this purpose.
• Creating processes to be developed for both MÜDEK and the programs.
• Carrying out a Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) analysis within the scope of the evaluation process at our Faculty of Engineering.
• Keeping the laboratories, classrooms and related departments of our faculty under control, and providing technical service in case of any such need.
• Indicating, with a list and room number, which department is responsible for places such as classrooms, rooms, laboratories and support systems in our faculty, in order to make control more effective.

2026 Planning and Execution Process Goals

• Following up on the full and accurate entry of data from the relevant departments — such as OBS data entry in student registration and renewal, student attendance status, COOP status and course repetition — and ensuring corrective measures are taken if necessary.
• Ensuring the follow-up of students’ data and keeping it regular and error-free.
• Establishing a course registration, control, follow-up and correction system.
• Including the topics identified according to administrative process needs in the agenda of the Faculty Board Meeting and ensuring that a solution is reached.
• Having department heads organize process and operation meetings with department faculty members at certain intervals, and creating a department culture.
• Ensuring that this culture created within the department is integrated with the common culture to be established within the Faculty.
• Developing this culture in accordance with the engineering dimension of our departments and faculty, in addition to the matters set out in the legislation.
• Presenting this common culture to faculty members newly joining our faculty within the scope of the orientation program, and planning how, with whom, when, where and what to do.
• Applying an engineering orientation program to our newly enrolled students as well.
• Developing a process definition for each unit in our faculty and, for this purpose, developing job descriptions including the tasks each staff member carries out, to whom they are responsible, how they will report, what is expected of them, and what they should pay attention to and how when planning.
• Increasing the institutional structure and efficiency oriented to the planning and implementation of academic duties and responsibilities, in which the workload model, evaluation processes and standards, student registration regulations and ethical principles are applied with precision.

2026 Education and Training Process Goals

• The process of becoming accredited in the education and training processes within the scope of the MÜDEK program is ongoing, and ensuring development in this process in a way that best meets the conditions of our faculty and students.
• Putting the most appropriate questions on the agenda in order to determine what the target is and what is to be measured in the surveys to be conducted.
• Obtaining feedback in order to make a collective effort to increase our students’ success levels, and enabling staff to carry out their own internal self-assessment.
• Making program proposals and ensuring their dissemination for the development of our students’ English level, and creating a support program on this subject.

2026 Social Activity Process Goals

• Carrying out social activities within the departments and across the faculty during certain weeks of the month, with the participation of research assistants, faculty members, relevant staff and students.
• Creating a system to obtain our students’ views through interviews; increasing mutual trust, perceiving unexpressed problems, and creating opportunities to convey solutions where any exist.
• Increasing the satisfaction rate of academic staff.
• Increasing the satisfaction rate of administrative staff.
• Increasing student satisfaction.
• Instilling, at all levels, the awareness of fulfilling the necessary responsibilities towards society and the environment.
• Training, attracting and developing qualified human resources.