• The privilege of being an ITU student
• The privilege of studying in the department of Electrical Engineering
• The chance to study at an institution that is the pioneer of the firsts and has a long story
• One of the most in-demand professions
• Strong academic staff
• Modern educational and research laboratories infrastructure
• Plenty of employment opportunities after graduation

Electrical engineers work in areas like design, monitoring, protection, control, project plan and management of generation-transmission-distribution of electrical energy, smart grids, electricity markets, high voltage techniques and applications, lighting system electrical machines, electrical cars, electrical drive systems, power electronics circuits, electric vehicles.

Electrical engineering covers issues related to generation-transmission-distribution of electrical energy, smart grids,electricity markets, high voltage techniques and applications, lighting system electrical machines, electrical drive systems, power electronics circuits, electric vehicles, while Electronics-Communication engineering covers issues related to data, audio and video processing, data sensing and storage, design and production of electronic circuits and systems, antenna and electromagnetic wave theory and applications, physics and production of semiconducting electronic elements.

• Generation, transmission and distribution of electrical energy
• Renewable Energy Sources
• Smart Grids
• Power quality and energy efficiency
• Energy markets and resource management
• Electrical machines
• Power electronic circuits and applications
• Electric drive systems
• Battery systems
• High voltage techniques
• Electrical materials
• Illumination techniques

There are different career options in many fields after graduation. We have many graduates working in academia, industry, public and private sectors, Turkey and abroad, R&D field, electrical equipment design companies, electric power system sector, electric motor companies, power system equipment manufacturers and other international companies.

You can see some of companies where our graduates are employed:

• ABB, ALSTOM, ARÇELİK, ASELSAN, AVIVA
• BECKHOFF, BEST TRAFO, BOSCH, BAYKAR TEKNOLOJİ
• DPT, DSİ
• EAE, EEC, ENERJİSA, ENERJİ BAKANLIĞI, ENPAY, ENTES, EPİAŞ, EPDK
• FESTO, FORD OTOSAN
• HONEYWELL, HAVELSAN
• ISBAK
• MERCEDES, METRO İSTANBUL
• NETAŞ
• PETKİM, PIRELLİ
• ROCKWELL AUTOMATION, ROKETSAN
• SCHNEIDER, SIEMENS, SMC, STILAS, SÖNMEZ TRAFO
• TAİ, TEDAŞ ,TEİAŞ, THY, TÜBİTAK, TURKCELL, TUSAŞ
• VESTEL, VODAFONE
• WEIDMANN

A list of Education and Research laboratories of electrical engineering department is given below:

• The Illumination and Indoor Installation Laboratory
• Electrical Distribution Automation Laboratory
• Electric Power Systems Laboratory
• Electrical Machines Laboratory
• Power Electronics Laboratory
• High Voltage Laboratory
• Electrical Energy Systems Laboratory
• Intelligent Condition Monitoring & Diagnostics
• Cognitive Systems
• Smart Grids
• Photovoltaic Systems
• Computational Electromechanical Systems
• Super Conductivity
• Renewable Energy

According to the data of December 2020, there are a total of 14 professors, 4 associate professors, 9 assistant professors, 2 lecturers, and 25 research assistants at the Electrical Engineering Department.

According to the data of December 2020, there are 980 B.Sc, 84 M.Sc. and 16 Ph.D students are registered to our undergraduate and graduate programs.

We have many successful women engineers who graduated with high honours in our department, working in both academia and industry. According to the data of December 2020, 10 out of 25 faculty members are women.

ITU Electrical Engineering Department accepts students for 2 Bachelor’s Degree programs according to the 2020 YKS guide.

Electrical Engineering Department (30% English)

Electrical Engineering Department (100% English)

You can find the curriculum of the Electrical Engineering Department for undergraduate programs from this link.

Our students have many international internship opportunities in various ways such as ERASMUS, IAESTE, AIESEC, and study abroad for 6 months or 1 year under ERASMUS and other international exchange agreements.

In addition, many of our graduates go abroad for postgraduate education after completing their undergraduate education.

The normal duration of undergraduate education is 8 semesters (4 years) except for English preparation. A significant number of our students graduate in 4 years, but our students who have difficulty in attending the course, who start working by interrupting their lessons before the end of their education, who cannot achieve at least 2.00 graduation requirement and who delay their graduation project studies can finish the school in more than 8 semesters. The courses require a solid foundation of mathematics, which is particularly necessary in all engineering. Our students, who do not have much difficulty in the mathematics and physics lessons in the first year, usually graduate in 4 years if there is no delay in their attendance and study tempo.

You can work as a student assistant in ITU departments on campus, such as in the computer center and in the library. You can get additional information on this topic by visiting the Part Time Students pages. We also have students working part-time at Teknokent companies located within the boundaries of ITU Ayazağa Campus, finding a job mostly depends on personal skills. You can follow job opportunities on faculty bulletin boards and internet advertisements. Our students prefer to start working part-time while finishing in the senior year.

According to the current data of 2019, ITU Libraries have a rich information-document presence with 461,628 e-books and 74,432 e-journals, 6,000 rare works, 5,672 maps, 215 databases, 1,012,207 publications and 2,112,000 electronic theses.

 

Under the umbrella of the Library and Documentation Department, there is a center "Mustafa Inan Library (open 24/7)" and 7 branch libraries.

 

Mechanical Faculty Ratip Berker Library

Center for Advanced Studies in Music Library

Faculty of Architecture Library

Maritime Faculty Library

Faculty of Business Administration Library

School of Foreign Languages Library

Conservatory Library

In all undergraduate and graduate programs at ITU, at least 30% of the courses are taken in English. Many of our departments provide 100% English education. Those who cannot pass the Foreign Language Level exam prior to their undergraduate education at ITU must successfully complete one year of compulsory English preparatory education at ITU School of Foreign Languages. The School of Foreign Languages is located in Maçka, on the City Campus. After the preparatory school in a foreign language, additional courses can be taken during undergraduate study.

Our students can improve their international experience and foreign language skills by participating in internships abroad, 6 months or 1 year student exchange programs abroad. In addition, the School of Foreign Languages provides German, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian and Japanese languages, which are included in the elective courses program.

Dormitories in ITU Campuses have approximately 4700+ bed capacity (as of June 2020), undergraduate students can apply to the dormitory-scholarship office to stay in the dormitories.

A double major is a program that enables students who meet the success and other conditions to take two diplomas simultaneously from two undergraduate programs of the same higher education institution. A minor program, on the other hand, is a program that enables a student enrolled in a diploma program to receive a certificate that does not substitute for a diploma (minor certificate) by taking a limited number of courses on a specific subject within the same higher education institution, provided that they meet the prescribed requirements. You can find the necessary information from the ITU Student Affairs Office.

Within the scope of the regulations, there are regulations for undergraduate transfer. For details, we recommend that you read the relevant regulations and ITU student automation pages.