COURSE UNIT TITLE

: COLOUR SCIENCE

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
TEX 4530 COLOUR SCIENCE ELECTIVE 1 2 0 4

Offered By

Textile Engineering

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR GÖKHAN ERKAN

Offered to

Textile Engineering

Course Objective

Describing and spectrophotometric properties of colour, standart light sources, colour measurement methods, lightness, chromaticity coordinates,CIE system, whiteness degree,colour tolerances, colour mixtures,determination of tristimulus values,colour differences, functions of colour measurement and calculating of dyeing recipes.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Describe the color and color harmonies
2   Relate the color and color measurement systems. Define and compare the light sources.
3   Infer and discuss the color values.
4   Compare the whiteness indexes. Calculate the metamerism, yellowness indexes and tristimulus values
5   Calculate the dyeing recipes.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to color science: definitions, history of color measurment, color circle, color harmonies and mixtures.
2 How can we see colorful Eye and brain. Structure and functions of eye. Mechanism of see.
3 Principles of electromagnetic radiation and natural and artifical light. CIE standard light sources.
4 Color science: standard observer, reflection values. Practice of calibration and measurement of reflection.
5 Color science: K/S values, Tristimulus values, Practice of Metameri ve K/S values.
6 Relations between tristimulus values and color. Calculation of tristimulus values from reflectionvalues.
7 Color systems (CIE, Munsell, Ostwald Systems), color scales, one and three dimension color diagrams).
8 Pantone colors. Practice color systems in computer.
9 Measurement of whiteness: formulas of degree of whiteness, yellowness index, measurement of brightness and their practice.
10 Evaluation of color differences, formulas of color differences, pass/fail tolerance, and their applicaions for fastness.
11 Color measurement apparatus (with computer software), fundamental of color measurement, instrumental color measurement.
12 Recipe calculation (single dye and mixtures), basic dyeings and their measurements, calorimetric calculation, recipe correction
13 Practice of automatically recipe calculation using spectral photometer.
14 Practice of automatically recipe calculation using spectral photometer.

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Principles of Color Technology,F. Billmeyer,M. Saltzman, John Wiley,0-471-03052- X,New York,1981
2. Tekstilde Renk Ölçümü ve Reçete Çıkarma, Kerim Duran, Ege Üniversitesi,975-483-496- 2, Izmir, 2001

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Course contains the theoretical lessons and laboratory practice.

Assessment Methods

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


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Exams contain subjects which are described at the lessons.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

Students should provide their personal protective equipment (i.e. gloves, apron), laboratory file, calculation machine, glass hardwares.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Yrd. Do.ç. Dr. Gökhan Erkan
Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Mühendislik Fakültesi Tekstil Mühendisliği Bölümü Tınaztepe
Yerleşkesi Buca Izmir
Tel: +90232 301 77 17
Fax: +90232 301 77 50
email: gokhan.erkan@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Monday: 3-4
Tuesday: 5-6th hours

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 1 14
Labratory 13 2 26
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 2 28
Preparing report 13 1 13
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Preparation for midterm exam 1 8 8
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 103

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11
LO.111
LO.22345
LO.34445
LO.44445
LO.545555

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

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