COURSE UNIT TITLE

: SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND ETHICS IN PUBLISHING

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FBE 6077 SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND ETHICS IN PUBLISHING ELECTIVE 1 1 0 5

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

Offered to

Statistics (English)

Course Objective

The purpose of this course is to introduce the ethical issues to be faced in their professional life and the necessary rules to adhere to, to the young who are candidates for a higher level in engineering by making scientific and technical researches. The old and new theories of ethics will be introduced and ethical principles of academia profession will be discussed in the dynamic nature of science and engineering. Common methodologies used by professional engineers in society, the relationship between society and research, engineering technologies and the place and the future of technology in society s life will be discussed. Thus, the vocational problems to be faced and the ethical principles to overcome these problems for the engineers and the academics of the future, will be examined. The methodology to be used is the discussion of the many samples of problems faced in academical life, scientific researches and in engineering, with the students.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Scientific and technical research; introduction and general issues.
2 Ethics, moral theories and philosophical approachesI
3 Ethics, moral theories and philosophical approachesII
4 Research and engineering profession
5 The responsibilities of the researcher / Document Control
6 Engineer's responsibilities
7 Mid term exam I
8 The future s researcher engineer, sustainable use of resources and environmental awareness
9 What s a research
10 How and why a research is published
11 Using a laboratory, data storage and evaluation of ethics
12 Teamwork and joint publication
13 Arbitration and report evaluation
14 Mid term exam II/ Document and term homework submission

Recomended or Required Reading

Lots of books are available in DEU Library electronic books series. Ofthese particularly,
Michael Davis, Ethics in the University, 1999. Routledge , named book in Ebrary series, is the main book of the course. Also the lecture notes in Turkish of Engineering and Ethics course of the faculty member will be used. During the course, internet resources will be given as ("www.ethicsonline") having a large number of experienced and valued source of information of the event.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE 1 MIDTERM EXAM 1
2 MTE 2 MIDTERM EXAM 2
3 PRJ PROJECT
4 ASG ASSIGNMENT
5 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE 1 * 0.25 + MTE 2 * 0.25 + PRJ * 0.30 + ASG * 0.20


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

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 2 5 10
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 5 65
Preparing assignments 1 10 10
Midterm 2 2 4
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 115

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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