YTU APPLIED URBAN SCIENCE and URBAN INNOVATION

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OBJECTIVES of the PROGRAMME:

  • Researchers and Practioners from multidisciplinary background (City and Regional Planning, Computer Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Electronics/Electronics Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering, Architecture, Civil Engineering, Survey Engineering, Business Administration, Economics, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology, Communication Design) present theoretical and practical knowledge to the students who are interested in the future cities and urban problems with reference to national and international case studies,
  • Developing co-production process methods with all city actors (public, private sector, NGO, etc.),
  • A dynamic and R&D-based graduate education supported by the 'Urban Innovation Laboratory' structured to develop application capacities,
  • To provide students from different disciplines with the ability to analyze multi-spatial, multidimensional and voluminous urban data (qualitative and quantitative) (especially for students working in different sectors and making business developments based on urban data analytics, providing expertise in the field of urban informatics)
  • Having compulsory courses in the field of urban informatics and a pool of elective courses to be selected from three different tracks: environment and climate, digital economy and community with cross-cutting disciplines: ICT and Law and gaining the ability to prepare a project for the solution of a real urban problem with all these courses