Environmental Protection and Control Program

About  Program

Our program was established in 1996. It has 3 academic staff. The total student quota in our program is 60. In our program, we try to provide our students with education at a level that will compete with other universities in the national and international arena by using all the opportunities of modern education.

The Environmental Protection and Control Program, which is affiliated with the Department of Environmental Protection Technologies, is a program that provides theoretical and practical training for the solution and control of environmental problems that arise with the pollution of natural resources such as water, air and soil as a result of industrialization and rapid population growth today, and also for the sustainable use of natural resources.

 

Purpose of the Program

The aim of this program is to train professional staff who are aware of the environmental problems that are becoming increasingly important today, especially in the establishment and operation of the necessary facilities for the destruction of wastes that cause air, water and soil pollution without harming the environment, the application of analyzes for the purpose of pollution detection, the research of environmental pollution and the evaluation of the results to be obtained and the execution of legal regulations. In recent years, the demands of students who want to receive university education in this field have been increasing.

 

Goal of the Program

To contribute to responding to the need for professional staff by ensuring that graduates have the knowledge, skills and equipment to take responsibility in the private sector and public institutions and organizations.

Entry Requirements for Vocational Education

Students are placed according to OSYM scores. For this, these people must take the Student Selection Examination conducted by OSYM and get enough points.

Duration and Content of Education

Environmental Protection and Control programs at the associate degree level, consisting of 4 semi-annual semesters, 2 years of education is given. Our students graduate with 120 ECTS credits at the end of 2 years. The program includes theoretical and applied, compulsory and elective vocational courses and a compulsory 30 working day internship.

Undergraduate Programs that can be transferred with DGS

Those who have successfully completed the Environmental Protection and Control associate degree program can transfer to “Environmental Engineering”, “Chemistry”, and “Biology” undergraduate programs if they are successful in the Vertical Transfer Examination conducted by OSYM.

 

 

 

Environmental Technician

Environmental Technician is defined as a person who assists the environmental engineer in protecting the efficiency of natural resources and arranging the environment in a way that is suitable for human health and well-being. There is a perception in our society that environmental technicians carry out works such as environmental regulation and landscaping. However, Environmental Technician carries out works such as the supply and purification of drinking water, purification of wastewater, operation of purification facilities, and measurements related to water/wastewater/air pollution in laboratories. In this sense, increasing industrialization has increased the employment opportunities of Environmental Technicians.

 

Fields of work and job Opportunities

Our students who graduate from the department have quite a lot of job opportunities. To list these, if they are successful in the Public Personnel Selection Exam (K.P.S.S.) exam, they can work in the Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, the Ministry of Health and the provincial directorates affiliated to the Ministry, universities, municipalities; in private accredited laboratories that conduct measurements in the fields of wastewater, drinking water, air pollution, noise pollution etc. by being equipped with laboratory knowledge, in companies that prepare and provide consultancy for Environmental Impact assessment report (EIA) reports, in infrastructure project companies by learning programs such as AutoCad, WaterCad, StormCad, SewerCad; in the promotion and marketing departments of companies that sell environmental pollution analysis devices (HPLC, GC-MS, NMR etc.), in the environmental units of every industrial organization that produces waste/wastewater. In addition to these, they can easily find jobs in the quality units of companies if they complete their qualifications in the subjects of ISO 9001, ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001. In addition, Higher Education Institution (YOK.) In accordance with the decision of the Presidency dated 01.11.2013 and numbered 75850160-303.01.01/57760, it has been decided that the Environmental Protection and Control associate degree program is equivalent to the Environmental Health Program and that the graduates of the said program can apply for the Environmental Health Technician positions in the K.P.S.S. appointments. In the Communiqué on Technical Personnel Working in Wastewater Treatment Plants dated 23 May 2019 and numbered 30782 of the Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change of the Republic of Turkey (http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/eskiler/2019/05/20190523-21.htm), the qualifications, documentation, duties, authorities and responsibilities of the technical personnel to be employed in order to ensure the effective, efficient and legislative operation of wastewater treatment plants are regulated. According to the relevant Communiqué, it is mandatory to employ at least one Environmental Technician/Technician in Class A (advanced and secondary treatment facilities) urban and industrial wastewater treatment facilities. Accordingly; our university's Environmental Protection Technologies Department Environmental Protection Control Program graduates have the opportunity to work (employ) in urban and industrial treatment facilities within this scope.