The Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Program was established in 2003 under the presidency of Prof. Dr. Fazlı ARSLAN and started its teaching activities in the 2006-2007 academic year. The Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Program, which started its educational and scientific activities under two departments, Materials and Production Metallurgy, has been in an effort to improve both education and research and development infrastructure continuously.

The Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Program, which started its educational activities with a very limited academic staff, made significant progress in the process, and the faculty members (Metallurgy and Materials, Machinery, Manufacturing, Physics, and Chemistry) who have been educated in different disciplines can come together and create joint projects for students. It has reached an academic staff that can bring different perspectives and goals. In addition, while the Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Program had very few experimental and research equipment such as optical microscopes, metallography, and mechanical test devices at the establishment stage, currently optical microscopes, tribology test equipment, particle size measuring device, mechanical test equipment (tensile-macro hardness-micro hardness), sintering and heat treatment units, powder condensation presses (cold and hot condensation), high energy grinders and thermal analyzers have reached a very wide research device infrastructure. The Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering gave its first graduates in the 2009-2010 academic year, and since this date, our graduates have started to work as Metallurgical and Materials Engineers in industrial establishments.

6 Professors, 3 Associate Professors, 1 Doctoral Faculty Member, 11 Research Assistants, and 4 Technicians work within the Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Department. The Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Program has been developing continuously since its establishment and continuously improves both its educational and academic infrastructure.

The Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Program has taken important steps to improve the quality of undergraduate education, as well as to improve its research and development and academic staff infrastructure. Our students were encouraged to apply for TUBITAK Undergraduate projects, and many projects were accepted and carried out by making the necessary contributions by our instructors. In addition, undergraduate students were encouraged to apply and participate in TUBITAK supported research projects carried out by faculty members in order to enable our students to adapt quickly to both business and academic life after graduation and to increase their R&D project development and execution skills. With the addition of courses such as Entrepreneurship, Scientific Project Writing Procedures and Principles, and Occupational Health and Safety to the curriculum, our students were provided with knowledge in other areas they would need as engineers. In addition, the number of elective courses in the 3rd and 4th grades has been increased and the curriculum has been updated so that our students can improve themselves in the field they want.