COURSE UNIT TITLE

: HISTORY OF SCIENCE

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
EED 3010 HISTORY OF SCIENCE COMPULSORY 2 0 0 2

Offered By

Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

DOCTOR BARIŞ BOZKURT

Offered to

Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Course Objective

1: To learn about most exciting and productive facts in the history of science
2: Have the way of knowing the World of different cultures
3: To learn about origins of the science
4: Understanding relations among scientific and technological discoveries and inventions
5: Future of scientific process

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To see historical perspectives on civilization, engineering, philosophy and arts
2   To gain more understand of methodology of science and research
3   To learn about how has scientific knowledge been related to other enterprises such as religon, literatüre and commerce
4   To understand definitions of science
5   To learn more about Inductive and deuctive process

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Science and human mind, the mastery of fire
2 Science and the ancient World, Aristotles inductive and deductive method
3 Rebirth of science: Copernicus to Newton
4 The science of light, Newton s Optics
5 Science, communication, the electric telegraph
6 Discovering electricity, static electricity and the electrodynamic revelotion
7 Relativity and Time Dilatation
8 Chemistry: Mater and its transformations
9 Mid-Term Exam
10 Greatest science discoveriesof all time: Oxygen, vaccinations and human circulatory system
11 Greatest science discoveriesof all time: Antibiotics, anesthesia, vaccinations
12 Greatest science discoveriesof all time: Radioactivity, relativity, conservation of energy
13 Greatest science discoveriesof all time: Fault lines, Oceans control global weather, atmospheric layers
14 Modern Physics and Epistemology

Recomended or Required Reading

1 - A Brief History of Science, Thomas Crump, Carrol&Graff Publishers, 2001
ISB 0-7867-0907-3

2- Science and Technology in World History
James E. Mc Clellan, H. Dorn, John Hopking University Press,2006,ISBN: 0-8018-8359-8

3- 100 Greatest Science Discoveriesof all Time, Kendall Haven, Libraries Unlimited, 2007, ISBN: 978-1-59158-265-6

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lectures with active discussions help to provide a deeper understanding on how the scientific progress shape today. Also Exam Questions and Homework should help students to gain a deep understanding on to how the science shaped somehow today

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.25 + ASG * 0.25 + FIN * 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.25 + ASG * 0.25 + RST * 0.50


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Mid-Term %30, Homework consist 20% and final examination consist %50 of the Final Grade.

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

students will be encouraged to contribute actively and discuss the topics in the lesson.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Prof. Dr. Haldun Karaca
Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi, Mühendislik Fakültesi
Elektrik-Elektronik Mühendisliği Bölümü
Tınaztepe Kampusü, 35160 Buca - Izmir
Tel: 1307168 Room
haldun.karaca@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 2 24
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 1 12
Preparation for midterm exam 2 2 4
Preparation for final exam 1 4 4
Preparing assignments 1 4 4
Midterm 2 1 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 52

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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CONTACT INFORMATION
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Phone: +90(232) 412 12 12 - Fax: +90 (232) 464 81 35

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