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| Course Title | Code | Language | Type | Semester | L+U Hour | Credits | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Furniture Construction | AEM100 | Turkish | Compulsory | 2. Semester | 3 + 0 | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| Prerequisite Courses | |
| Course Level | Undergraduate |
| Mode of delivery | Required |
| Course Coordinator | Prof. Dr. Hüseyin PELİT |
| Instructor(s) | Prof. Dr. Hüseyin PELİT (Bahar) |
| Goals | This course aims to enable students to understand the basic concepts, principles, and systems of furniture construction; the relationship between production technologies and construction; traditional and modern jointing techniques used in solid wood and panel furniture; and the operating principles of carcass, door, drawer, and auxiliary connection systems. It also aims to equip students with the knowledge and skills to develop the correct construction solution by considering appropriate material selection, function, strength, assembly, suitability for mass production, economy, and aesthetics. |
| Course Content | 1. Explains the basic concepts, importance, main types of furniture construction, and the design-production relationship. (Understanding) 2. Explains radial and tangential cutting in solid wood materials, dimensional changes, and the principles of producing panels/boards. (Understanding) 3. Classifies traditional jointing techniques used in solid wood furniture and modern fastening elements used in panel furniture. (Application) 4. Analyzes furniture carcass, door, drawer, and auxiliary mechanism systems in terms of material, function, and assembly relationships. (Analysis) 5. Selects and justifies the appropriate construction, jointing, and fastening solution for a given furniture use scenario according to criteria of strength, economy, manufacturability, and aesthetics. (Evaluation) 6. Demonstrates willingness to consider quality, safety, economical material use, and user requirements in furniture construction. (Affective - Valuing) |
| # | Öğrenme Kazanımı |
| 1 | Explains the basic concepts, importance, main types of furniture construction, and the design-production relationship. (Understanding) |
| 2 | Explains radial and tangential cutting in solid wood materials, dimensional changes, and the principles of producing panels/boards. (Understanding) |
| 3 | Classifies traditional jointing techniques used in solid wood furniture and modern fastening elements used in panel furniture. (Application) |
| 4 | Analyzes furniture carcass, door, drawer, and auxiliary mechanism systems in terms of material, function, and assembly relationships. (Analysis) |
| 5 | Selects and justifies the appropriate construction, jointing, and fastening solution for a given furniture use scenario according to criteria of strength, economy, manufacturability, and aesthetics. (Evaluation) |
| 6 | Demonstrates willingness to consider quality, safety, economical material use, and user requirements in furniture construction. (Affective - Valuing) |
| Week | Topics/Applications | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Week | Introduction to furniture construction: the concept and importance of construction in furniture, basic principles, the design-production relationship, and types of construction. | Lecture, Question and Answer |
| 2. Week | Relationship between production technologies and construction: the effects of machinery and production processes on construction design, assembly principles, and suitability for mass production. | Lecture, Discussion, Case Study |
| 3. Week | Producing panels from solid wood material: general properties of wood, radial and tangential cutting, dimensional changes, and key considerations in panel production. | Other Activities, Lecture, Problem Solving |
| 4. Week | Traditional jointing techniques I: edge joints and their basic principles of use. | Other Activities, Lecture, Case Study |
| 5. Week | Traditional jointing techniques II: length joints and their basic principles of use. | Other Activities, Lecture |
| 6. Week | Traditional jointing techniques III: corner joints; joints with grain parallel to the corner and grain perpendicular to the corner. | Lecture, Discussion |
| 7. Week | Traditional jointing techniques IV: frame corner joints, finger corner joints, and leg-to-rail joints. | Other Activities, Lecture |
| 8. Week | Modern jointing techniques (panel furniture): joining accessories and fastening elements. | Lecture, Case Study, Problem Solving |
| 9. Week | Furniture body (carcass) structure: base/plinth and leg systems; the connection hierarchy of side, bottom, and top panels and rails; back panels and crown materials; assembly methods. | Other Activities, Lecture, Discussion |
| 10. Week | Movable elements - doors: doors classified according to operating system, position in furniture, material type, and production method. | Interview, Lecture, Case Study |
| 11. Week | Movable elements - drawers: drawer construction techniques; drawers classified according to operating system, position, and material type. | Other Activities, Lecture, Discussion |
| 12. Week | Other material systems I: hinges, drawer slide systems, sliding mechanisms, handles, and pulls. | Other Activities, Presentation (Preparation), Lecture |
| 13. Week | 13 Other material systems II: screws, nails, dowels, and pegs. Lecture, demonstration, matching exercise | Other Activities, Presentation (Preparation), Lecture |
| 14. Week | Integrated construction analyses: joint evaluation of carcass, doors, drawers, and fastening elements in given product examples; holistic evaluation of appropriate construction solutions for different furniture types. | Question and Answer, Discussion, Problem Solving |
| No | Program Requirements | Level of Contribution | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |||
| 1 | Students gain an advanced and contemporary knowledge and practical skill after general or vocational high school qualification. To obtain an ability to support his/her knowledge and practical skill with technical sources and equipment and to use basic and principle technical terminology of wood works industrial engineering. Student gain an insight to the subject to analyze, discuss, evaluate and bring about solutions for the problems in metal technologies and related teaching subjects. He/She gains an ability to solve problems in wood works industrial engineering using general and foundational since and knowledge. | ✔ | |||||
| 2 | Student can gather and use data to solve well defined problems on wood works industrial engineering subjects. He/She can efficiently use his or her practical and knowledge skills in practical applications. Students know general definitions of engineering drawing subject; he/she can read engineering drawings in wood works industrial engineering and also can design using computer programs. Students are familiar to measuring equipment used in wood works industrial engineering he/she has knowledge and practice to use and maintenance of measuring equipment. | ✔ | |||||
| 3 | Student can gather and use data to solve well defined problems on wood works industrial engineering subjects. He/She can efficiently use his or her practical and knowledge skills in practical applications. Students know general definitions of engineering drawing subject; he/she can read engineering drawings in wood works industrial engineering and also can design using computer programs. Students are familiar to measuring equipment used in wood works industrial engineering he/she has knowledge and practice to use and maintenance of measuring equipment. | ✔ | |||||
| 4 | To gain theoretical and practical skills in joining of furniture materials, implementing quality control in furniture structures and to give training on these subjects. | ✔ | |||||
| 5 | To obtain an adequate theoretical knowledge and practical skills on wood finishing process, furniture design, perspective, wooden surface decoration, modern furniture production techniques and mass production techniques and to use these techniques in teaching and training in vocational schools. Tracing any faults of furniture machines and providing for necessary maintenance and repairing. | ✔ | |||||
| 6 | To obtain an adequate theoretical knowledge and practical skills on composite materials, general structure of wood material, furniture strength, bonding technology, classic furniture design, furniture styles, classic furniture production, production and facility planning and to use these techniques in teaching and training in vocational schools. | ✔ | |||||
| 7 | Students gain skills for technical communication and team work with his/her colloquies and superior on subjects related to furniture technology and wood works industrial engineering such as design and practice. He/she has an ability to use Turkish language effectively in his/her personal or official communication. He/She has skill to represent his company/institution, sharing technical and intuitional information in electronic environment by oral or written communication. | ✔ | |||||
| 8 | Gaining ability to self-learning and also implementing his/her learning subject on wood works industrial engineering. To gain skill to conduct research on his/her subject personally and present results as technical reports. Monitoring new improvements and updating him/herself continuously and also updating and upgrading these improvements to his/her institution. | ✔ | |||||
| 9 | Having use of foreign languages can make communication and follow up new technologies in wood works industrial engineering. | ✔ | |||||
| 10 | Having adequate knowledge level for occupational requirement about software and hardware, computing skill to use office software, internet communication and some CAD sofware such as AutoCAD, 3Dmax. etc. | ✔ | |||||
| 11 | Having an adequate knowledge of health and safety in furniture work sectors and also knowledge of social security, ethic values, quality assurance systems, management and environment. | ✔ | |||||
| 12 | Being aware of Atatürk’s principles and his revolutions. | ✔ | |||||
| 13 | Students have enough theoretical and practical knowledge of teaching on wood works industrial engineering subjects. | ✔ | |||||
| 14 | Having ability to evaluate student’s progress and activities, he/she also provide for an environment to evaluate students each other. He/she can use and share the results obtained from evaluations to make improvements in teaching and training activities. | ✔ | |||||
| 15 | Having ability to self-evaluate him/her self to make progress and improvements. Being open minded to ideas and improvements he/she supports him/her self and institutions. He/she has knowledge of law, regulation and policy related to his/her job and obeys all the rules accordingly. He/she has a respect and awareness of the environment and the society. | ✔ | |||||
| Program Requirements | DK1 | DK2 | DK3 | DK4 | DK5 | DK6 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PY1 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| PY2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| PY4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| PY5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| PY6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| PY7 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| PY8 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| PY9 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| PY10 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| PY11 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| PY12 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| PY13 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| PY14 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| PY15 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Ders Kitabı veya Notu | Ders Kitabı veya Ders Notu bulunmamaktadır. |
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| Diğer Kaynaklar |
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| ECTS credits and course workload | Quantity | Duration (Hour) | Total Workload (Hour) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Ders İçi |
Class Hours | 14 | 3 | 42 |
|
Ders Dışı |
Homework | 5 | 1 | 5 |
| Preparation, After Class Study | 7.5 | 1 | 7.5 | |
| Research | 4 | 1 | 4 | |
| Other Activities | 7 | 1 | 7 | |
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Sınavlar |
Midterm | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Midterm Preparation | 1 | 3 | 3 | |
| Homework | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| Final | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| Classroom Activities | 5 | 1 | 5 | |
| Total Workload | 76.5 | |||
| *AKTS = (Total Workload) / 25,5 | ECTS Credit of the Course | 3.0 | ||
