COURSE UNIT TITLE

: COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN IN EARTH SCIENCES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MTS 3026 COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN IN EARTH SCIENCES ELECTIVE 2 0 0 3

Offered By

Faculty of Engineering

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR BAYRAM KAHRAMAN

Offered to

Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering (Evening)
Mining Engineering (Evening)
Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
Environmental Engineering
Geological Engineering (Evening)
Geological Engineering

Course Objective

Nowadays, computer and software is comonly used in earth science and these software help earth scientists. This course will inform to students about computer aided software and it's usage area.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Having information about the software used in Earth Sciences
2   Able to digitizing field data
3   Able to digitizing morphological fiel data
4   Able to collecting field data and inserting computer software
5   Able to creating field model using field data

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The working principle of computer aided software and it's usage are in earth sciences.
2 Preparing digital data to use for computer aieded software.
3 Field data will be given and each group will digitize field data and prepare data base .
4 each group will digitize field data and prepare data base .
5 The presentation will be carried out about digitized field data and data base
6 Preparing 3D model of field will be mentioned
7 application study will be carried out about Preparing 3D model
8 Groups will present and discuss their work about the results of project
9 Lecturer will carry out presentation to fix student's errors.
10 Lecturer will carry out presentation about preparing data base using field data.
11 Each group will prepare data base using digitized drill hole data.
12 Lecturer will carry out presentation about preparing geological model of study field.
13 Each group will prepare their geological model.
14 Each group will prepare their geological model.

Recomended or Required Reading

Education notes

Mining operations and other related books and publications

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Presentation + Teamwork + Homework + Classroom discussion

Assessment Methods

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


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)

bayram.kahraman@deu.edu.tr, Tel: + 09 232 301 75 21

Office Hours

Tuesday, Friday; 10:30-12:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 6 2 12
Case study 8 2 16
Preparing presentations 1 17 17
Project Preparation 1 20 20
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 1 14
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 81

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12
LO.15554
LO.24555
LO.35555
LO.44455
LO.5