COURSE UNIT TITLE

: SEMINAR

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
TKS 4000 SEMINAR COMPULSORY 0 2 0 3

Offered By

Textile Engineering

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR MUZAFFER SEVIL YEŞILPINAR

Offered to

Textile Engineering

Course Objective

Aim of the seminar is to create awareness about the social and environmental effects of engineering applications, give information about the essential working ethic codes, regulations about safety and health at work, rights and obligations as a worker in textile engineering.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Awareness of the social and environmental effects of engineering applications.
2   Knowledge of working ethic codes for engineering.
3   Ability to analyse ethical behaviours and solve ethical conflicts via case studes.
4   Awareness of the responsibilities of engineers about safety and health at work.
5   Knowledge and awareness of how textile processes influence the environment and the legal regulations about environment.
6   Knowledge and consciousness of the rights and obligations as a worker or an employer.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Section 1: Ethic values and principles in engineering 1.1. Definitions and common knowledge 1.2. Basic ethic values
2 1.3.Basic principles of ethic, the ethical decision process 1.4.Ethical conflict
3 1.5.Engineering ethic principles, ethic codes
4 1.6. Evaluation of ethical behaviour, tests applicable during decision process, case studies
5 Section 2: Engineering applications and environment 2.1.Introduction and common knowledge: Environment in technical terms, factors influencing the environment, basic approaches about environment
6 2.2.Applications to prevent pollution: waste treatment facilities, filters, solid waste management
7 2.3.Influence of textile factories on environment. 2.4.Legal regulations about environment for textile factories.
8 Section 3: Safety and health at work 3.1. Basic terms in work safety: Work health, work safety, danger, injury, risk, industrial accident, industrial disease
9 3.2.Workfield and workers safety
10 3.3.Work safety and health risks in textile engineering, cautions and regulations
11 Section 4: Employment law 4.1. Basic terms about individual and common employment law: Employee, apprentice, trainee, employer, employer representative, workin place, factory, employment contract, working hours, free hours, cancellation, consideration money etc
12 4.2.Rights and obligations of employees and examination of the related court decisions with examples
13 4.3. Rights and obligations of employers and examination of the related court decisions with examples
14 Midterm exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Mühendislik Etiği Vakaları: www.onlineethics.org
http://www.feexam.ou.edu/
Küreselleşme, Etik Kodlar ve Örgütler. TMMOB Elektrik Mühendisleri Odası. Yeniden
Düzenlenmiş Ikinci Baskı. Ankara. Mart 2007.
DVD : Incident at Morales,Texas University College of Engineering
TMMOB Mesleki Davranış Ilkeleri , TMMOB 38. Olağan Genel Kurulu Kararı, 27~29 Mayıs
2004, http://www.tmmob.org.tr
Iş Sağlığı, Güvenliği ve Çevresel Etki Risk Değerlendirmesi, Özlem Özkılıç, MESS
Endüstri Ilişkileri Yayınları, 2008.
Iş Sağlığı ve Güvenliği, Namık kemal Özdemir, Istanbul Barosu Yayınları.
Iş Hukuku, Alpaslan Işıklı, Imaj Yayıncılık, Ankara, 2003.
Iş Hukuku ve Uygulamaları, Prof. Dr. Fevzi DEMIR, 5. Bası, Ocak 2009, Izmir.
Iş ve Sosyal Güvenlik Hukuku, Istanbul Barosu Yayınları, 2010.
Iş Hukuku Kavramları ve Yargıtay Ilke Kararları, Istanbul Barosu Yayınları, 2009.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Presentation, discussion and evaluation, educational DVDs, examination of the previous court decisions and case studies

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 FIN FINAL EXAM
2 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE FIN*1
3 RST RESIT
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE RST*1

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Midterm examination 50% + Final Examination 50%

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 14 2 28
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 3 42
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 70

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11
LO.1355
LO.25355
LO.35355
LO.44345
LO.54355
LO.64345

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