COURSE UNIT TITLE

: GENERAL PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY FOR ENGINEERS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MTS 3037 GENERAL PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY FOR ENGINEERS ELECTIVE 2 0 0 3

Offered By

Faculty of Engineering

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR TOLGA GÖNENÇ

Offered to

Industrial Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering (Evening)
Faculty of Engineering
Geophysical Engineering
Mining Engineering
Environmental Engineering
Civil Engineering
Civil Engineering (Evening)

Course Objective

Within the scope of engineering education, knowledge related t mapping, geographic information systems and spatial location designs are used in many engineering branches, especially in geosciences.
General Physical Geography covers the basic knowledge and concepts of all these trainings. The aim of this course is to make students, who will use Geographical information Systems, Mapping and so on, learned with the basic definations and facts related to general physical geography.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   LO1. To be able to explain the subject and principles geography.
2   LO 2. To be able to explain the basic concepts and facts related to geomorphology and generaal characterictics of major land forms
3   LO 3. To be able to explain the basic concepts and facts related to hydrography and the general characterictics of water cycle, rivers, lakes, oceaan, ground water on earth.
4   LO 4. To beable to explain the basic concepts of map informations
5   LO 5. To be able to explain the basic concepts and the facts related to climatology and general features of climate in the world.
6   LO 6. To be able to explains the basic concepts and facts related to biogeography soil geography in general.
7   LO 7. To be able to use geographical knowledge in engineering

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 1. Defination of Geography, Theoretical and Conceptual Framework.
2 2. Formation of the Universe and Earth
3 3. Structure of the and Earth
4 4. Internal forces Effective in Shaping the Earth Surface
5 5. External forces Effective in Shaping the Earth Surface
6 6. Introduction to Hydrography Part 1
7 7. Introduction to Hydrography Part 2
8 8. Mid Term exam
9 9. General Mathematical Geography Part 1
10 10 General Mathematical Geography Part 2
11 11. General Mathematical Geography Part 3
12 12. Fundamental of Climatology
13 13. General Biogeography, Soil Geography
14 14. Mapping of information obtained from different enginnerng disciplines and comparisons. Oral and written presantations of the overall Project or Homeworks by the students and in virtual class discussion.
15 15. General Discussion

Recomended or Required Reading

To be announced.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

The lecture will be conducted in the form of oral discussion,homework/project assignment and exam.

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 * 0.20 + ASG * 0.30 + FIN * 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.20 + ASG * 0.30 + RST * 0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Project assigntment: %30
Mid-Term Exam : %22,5 LO 1-2-3
Homework/Project assigntment: %30 LO 1-2-3-4-5
Final Exam %50 LO 1-2-3-4-5-6

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

tolga.gonenc@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 2 24
Preparation for midterm exam 2 3 6
Preparation for final exam 1 6 6
Preparing assignments 1 3 3
Project Preparation 0 0 0
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
Project Assignment 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 69

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15
LO.1
LO.2221
LO.311
LO.43313
LO.51
LO.61
LO.733131

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