Graduation Projects

MECH/MECT4902 Graduation Design Project Implementation

1. MECH/MECT4902 Graduation Design Projects are offered both in Fall and Spring semesters. 

2. Students must meet the prerequisites/corequisites to be eligible to take the project (See Course Catalogue Forms of MECH4902 and MECT4902)

3. The project is carried out in teams of minimum 2 and maximum 5 students (preferentially 3 students), under the supervision of an advisor throughout the semester.

4. MECH4902 teams may include students from disciplines other than Mechatronics Engineering depending on the decision of the coordinator. 

5. MECT4902 teams are composed of Mechatronics Engineering students only, but when necessary, students from other disciplines may also participate depending on the coordinator’s decision. 

6. Project teams are formed by the Project Coordinator during the course registration week, a faculty member advisor is assigned to each team, a project topic is defined for each team, and the teams are announced in the first week of semester.

7. Teams make interim presentations of their projects in front of a jury composed of faculty members from Mechanical Engineering Department, in the 9th or 10th week of the semester.

8. Design Project reports are submitted to the project advisors at the end of the semester.

9. The approved Design Project reports by advisor are printed in two hard copies according to the specified format (See Guidelines to prepare Design Projects) and submitted to the Department before final presentation and examination.

10. After final examinations of the semester, oral presentations and examinations of Design Projects are held in front of a jury composed of faculty members from the Department and when necessary from other departments.

11. In-semester evaluations of the projects are done by the advisors separately for each team member, and the final presentation evaluation is done by the jury members for each team.

12. Advisor evaluation contributes for 50 % and jury evaluation contributes for 50 % to the final letter grades of students.

13. After the final presentation/exam, necessary corrections are made to the reports (if any), and a copy of the corrected report is submitted to the Department after advisor’s approval for each team.

14. Students' letter grades are announced via e-Campus after the corrected and revised Design Reports are submitted to the Department.

15. There is no discrimination in the formation of project teams, the execution of work, or the end-of-semester evaluations and grading.

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT