WHAT IS SYSTEMS ENGINEERING?

 Systems Engineering is concerned with the design, production, and maintenance of reliable systems within cost and time constraints. Systems engineers apply an appropriate combination of theories and tools, carried out through the use of a  

suitable methodology and a set of system management procedures, to address   real world problems that are often of large scale and scope. Systems engineering activities vary from requirements definition or specification to the conceptual and functional development of systems.

 The systems engineering program provides the students with the basic concepts, tools and methods useful in dealing with complex systems which can be considered as a single unit with regard to functions and tasks. A complex system generally includes components of various types, such as: technological, human, biological, environmental, industrial, social, political and economic. Systems engineering programs study the problems related to modeling, decision making, control and optimization of such systems, it also considers the relationship and interactions among various components of the system. The computer plays a central role not only for engineering and mathematical computations but also for simulation, automatic control and other information processing and automating tasks.

 The undergraduate systems engineering program offers a broad technical background, with courses in the first two years that provide the necessary foundation in the basic subjects upon which advanced engineering studies depend. The following two years of work provide the professional-level material, including computer applications necessary for the interdisciplinary engineering activities that are required of the modern systems engineers. In the senior year, a senior design project that will cover a wide range of realistic problems in industrial, governmental and service systems applications will allow all students to draw on their creativity, imagination, and motivation, as well as their engineering education. Emphasis in the department curriculum is on the practical applications of the theories on operations research, information systems, decision support systems, digital systems, communication systems, manufacturing and management systems.

 Yeditepe University Systems Engineering Department offers two options; Industrial Engineering and Automation and Control Engineering.