Department of Physics, belonging to Faculty of Arts and Sciences of Düzce University founded in 2006, started its educational program in 2009 and its language of education is Turkish. Department of Physics, giving undergraduate education in various fields of physics since the day it was founded until the end of 2011-2012 educational year, will be giving graduate education in 2012-2013 educational year. Department of Physics gives daytime education. Academic staff consists of three professors, one associated professor, one assistant professor and two research assistants. Department of Physics has a student laboratory and two research laboratories and great effort is spended for keeping up with the technological advances. Therefore, we have modern classes and laboratories for students. Department of Physics consists of five subdepartments such as Condensed Matter, Atomic and Molecular Physics, High Energy and Plasma Physics, Nuclear Physics and General Physics. Research areas of the academic staff of Department of Physics are semiconductor devices, renewable and clean energy, liquid crystals, dielectric spectroscopy, field effect transistors, condensed matter optics, magnetism and structural properties of metal nano-alloys.
The mission of the department of physics is to raise individuals who comprehended the fundamental concepts of physics, can apply the gained knowledge and skills in the experimental applications, choose scientific method as a guide to themselves, in the mean time who does not ignore the innovations and who can create value by making qualified studies in both business and academical life.
The vision of the department of physics is to be a department which keeps both educational and scientific activities about physics at international level and have a say in those activities, can follow advanced technologies, supports the national education with educational and research activities, and to be a leading department which raises undergraduate and graduate individuals contributing scientific and technological researches.
| No | Program Requirements |
|---|---|
| 1 | Retaining and administering the fundamentals of theoretical and experimental applications of Classical and Modern Physics. |
| 2 | Interpreting the encountered problems in accordance with the principles of physics and attaining the ability of problem solving. |
| 3 | Gaining the ability of establishing the connection between the theories and applications of physics. |
| 4 | Gaining the ability of following and interpreting physics literature. |
| 5 | Gaining the ability of analytical thinking by looking at the cases from physical perspective. |
| 6 | Utilizing the knowledge of other disciplines and using their approaches in physics. |
| 7 | Retaining the ability of gathering, comparing and analyzing physical data, and producing and presenting solution for it. |
| 8 | Attaining basics of following up to date physics literature and utilizing it through communicating with colleagues. |
| 9 | Setting theoretical model, solving problems related with the model, approaching the model experimentally and interpreting the obtained experimental data by analyzing. |
| 10 | Understanding the importance of life-long learning in physics which is open for new advances and staying in connection with life-long learning. |
Some graduates of Physics undergraduate programme are continuing their academic career. Some graduates are working in middle schools or in private or state sectors where applied physics is demanded. Also, they have the opportunity to work at physics laboratories of Turkish Atomic Energy Authority, laboratories of private institutions, as researcher in Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources and Ministry of Industry. Moreover, they can work as technical staff in some institutions such as ASELSAN and Türk Telekom.
The total amount of local credits students need to complete to graduate from the department of Physics is 153, 36 of which constituted by elective courses, and the total amount of ECTS credit amount specified is 240 by completing 30 at each semester. The period of study for the department of Physics consists of 4 years. In every semester, there are assessment tools such as midterm exam, homework, project, etc during the 14 weeks of semester and a final exam at the end of the semester. Moreover, students are required to write a graduation thesis in the scope of required courses of Research Project I and Research Project II in 7th and 8th semesters.
