COURSE UNIT TITLE

: FIBER AND FLAMENT CHEMISTRY

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
KIM 4266 FIBER AND FLAMENT CHEMISTRY ELECTIVE 2 0 0 4

Offered By

Chemistry

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR ELIF IŞGIN

Offered to

Course Objective

To give basic information about the science of Fiber Chemistry to the students. In order to increase the level of students' knowledge, following the scientific literature related the Fiber Chemistry.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   After undergraduate studies specialize in Fiber Chemistry
2   Students who wish to learn more deeply about the infrastructure can be provided on the subject in the Fiber Chemistry
3   Students have knownlodge and who can be ability to use in an academic or industrial the applications
4   Students can apply of dealing with the challenges faced during in the knowledge about Fiber Chemistry
5   Fiber Chemistry gain the knowledge and skills on methods of synthesis.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Polymers of the basic definitions
2 Types of polymers, properties, synthesis,
3 Geometric properties of the fibers,
4 Chemical and physical properties of fibers,
5 Polymers suitable for the production of fiber structure
6 Mechanical Properties of Polymers
7 Fiber drawing, drawing from the melt, dry traction, wet traction (Student Presentation)
8 Mid-term exam
9 Practice in Legal Institutions
10 Animal fibers, vegetable fibers, inorganic fibers (Student Presentation)
11 Regenerated cellulose fibers, regenerated protein fibers, polyamide fibers, polyester fibers, (Student Presentation)
12 Acrylic and modacrylic fibers, olefin fibers (Student Presentation)
13 Vinyl and vinylidene fibers, elastomeric fibers (Student Presentation)
14 Analysis of fibers, pre-trials, combustion tests, staining tests, microscopic examination, solubility tests(Student Presentation)

Recomended or Required Reading

B.Baysal, Polimer Kimyası, Cilt 1, ODTÜ, Ankara (1981).
Mehmet Saçak, Lif ve Elyaf Kimyası, Gazi Kitapevi, Ankara(2005).

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Question and answer technique of narration, Presentation, Interactive, Project Preparation

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 * 0.30 + ASG * 0.30 + FIN * 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + ASG * 0.30 + RST * 0.40


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

midterm exam, final exam and presentations.

Assessment Criteria

Student will be assessed with questions which will be asked in midterm exam, final exam and presentations.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Student responsibilities: Attendance to at least 70% for the lectures is an essential requirement of this course and is the responsibility of the student. It is necessary that attendance to the lecture and homework delivery must be on time. Any unethical behavior that occurs either in presentations or in exams will be dealt with as outlined in school policy. You can find the undergraduate policy at http://web.deu.edu.tr/fen

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

elif.sahin@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparation for midterm exam 1 20 20
Preparation for final exam 1 25 25
Practice in Legal Institutions 1 5 5
Preparing presentations 1 10 10
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 90

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15PO.16PO.17
LO.15
LO.23
LO.355
LO.42
LO.535