GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION
WOODEN BUILDING PHYSICS/5221338
Course Title: WOODEN BUILDING PHYSICS
Credits 3 ECTS 7.5
Course Semester 1 Type of The Course Elective
COURSE INFORMATION
 -- (CATALOG CONTENT)
 -- (TEXTBOOK)
 -- (SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTBOOK)
 -- (PREREQUISITES AND CO-REQUISITES)
 -- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION
  Turkish
 -- COURSE OBJECTIVES
 -- COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES
Gaining the professional knowledge on woodworking (Wooden Construction, Furniture and Decoration) industries, production of theoretical and practical
Gaining the identification of design and engineering problems, description, project reading, production reflection ability; selecting and implementing
Gaining the ability to use contemporary techniques and tools for engineering applications.
Gaining the ability to work efficiently as individual or in a group in wood products industrial engineering discipline or in interdisciplinary studies
Gaining the ability to communicate efficiently by expressing his/her opinions in Turkish verbally or in written form in a concise manner. Gaining abil
Gaining the ability to grasp the significance of the concepts in areas such as business entrepreneurship, innovation and gaining ability for planning
Gaining the ability of awareness about self-renewal concept by comprehending the necessity of lifelong learning.
Gaining the ability to have professional and ethical responsibility.
The development of personality such as self-confidence, undoubting in the face of difficulties, consistency and patience.
Awareness about problems concerning with social, economic, environmental, etc. in our age and realization of the engineering profession by keeping min
 -- MODE OF DELIVERY
  The mode of delivery of this course is face to face
 --WEEKLY SCHEDULE
1. Week  Building physics, importance and history of building physics
2. Week  Atmospheric factors affecting wooden building Building loads
3. Week  Material properties affecting wooden building
4. Week  Structure of wood
5. Week  Mechanical factors and building physics problems
6. Week  The water effects and building physics problems
7. Week  The water effects and building physics problems
8. Week  EXAM
9. Week  Thermal factors and building physics problems
10. Week  Thermal factors and building physics problems
11. Week  Sound effects and building physics problems
12. Week  Sound effects and building physics problems
13. Week  Physico-chemical factors and building physics problems
14. Week  Physico-chemical factors and building physics problems
15. Week  Fire effect and building physics problems
16. Week  FINAL
 -- TEACHING and LEARNING METHODS
 -- ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
 
Quantity
Total Weighting (%)
 Midterm Exams
1
40
 Assignment
1
20
 Application
0
0
 Projects
0
0
 Practice
0
0
 Quiz
0
0
 Percent of In-term Studies  
60
 Percentage of Final Exam to Total Score  
40
 -- WORKLOAD
 Activity  Total Number of Weeks  Duration (weekly hour)  Total Period Work Load
 Weekly Theoretical Course Hours
14
3
42
 Weekly Tutorial Hours
0
0
0
 Reading Tasks
4
2
8
 Searching in Internet and Library
6
5
30
 Material Design and Implementation
5
4
20
 Report Preparing
5
2
10
 Preparing a Presentation
5
2
10
 Presentation
2
2
4
 Midterm Exam and Preperation for Midterm Exam
6
2
12
 Final Exam and Preperation for Final Exam
10
4
40
 Other (should be emphasized)
5
2
10
 TOTAL WORKLOAD: 
186
 TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25: 
7.44
 Course Credit (ECTS): 
7.5
 -- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM
NO
 PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES
1
2
3
4
5
1Ability to develop scientific research, evaluate, interpret and apply knowledge in engineeringX
2Ability to use current techniques and methods applied in engineeringX
3Ability to complete and apply knowledge by scientific methods using limited or missing dataX
4Ability to learn new and developing applications of the professionX
5Ability to construct engineering problems, develop methods for solving problems and apply innovative methods in solutionsX
6Ability to develop new and / or original ideas and methods and to develop innovative solutions in system, component or process designsX
7Ability to design and apply analytical, modeling and experimental researchX
8Ability to take leadership and responsibility in multi-disciplinary teamsX
9Knowledge of at least one foreign languageX
10Ability to explain the process and results of his / her studies in national and international settings in a systematic and clear manner, either orally or in writingX
11Ability to describe the social and environmental dimensions of engineering applicationsX
12Ability to learn current techniques and methods and their limitations applied in engineeringX
13Ability to observe social, scientific and ethical valuesX
 -- NAME OF LECTURER(S)
   (Assoc. Prof. İhsan KÜRELİ)
 -- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)
   ( www.gazi.edu.tr/~ikureli)
 -- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)
   ( ikureli@gazi.edu.tr)