About the Program
It consists of seven courses, seminar, proficiency exam, thesis proposal and dissertation study. (240 ECTS total) The normal duration of this program is 8 semesters and the maximum duration is 12 semesters.
a.In order for a student who is enrolled in a doctoral program to graduate, at least one of the following conditions must be fulfilled.
- Two papers presented at national or international scientific meetings,
- An article published in a peer-reviewed/ indexed journal, accepted for publication, or received a DOI number,
- Two papers presented at Social / Science symposiums organized by IZU.
Program Objectives & Goals
Objectives
- Bilgisayar Bilimi ve Mühendisliği alanlarında öğretim üyelerinin araştırma yapabilmesi için insan kaynağına ihtiyaç vardır ve lisansüstü öğrencileri özellikle doktora, bu amaçla araştırma projelerinin parçası olacaktır. Bilgisayar Bilimi ve Mühendisliği doktora Programı, öğrencilerin teorik ve pratik formasyon kazanmalarını sağlayacak şekilde yapılandırılmıştır. Program, Bilgisayar Bilimleri ve Mühendisliği konularını içermekte olup disipline arası özelliklere sahiptir.
- Doktora Programının amacı, Bilgisayar Bilimleri ve Mühendisliği konularında bilimsel araştırmalara katkıda bulunmak, ülkemizde gereksinim duyulan kaliteli öğretim üyesi ihtiyacını karşılayacak özgün çalışmalar yürütebilme becerisine sahip araştırmacılar yetiştirmektir. Bölümümüzde kablosuz algılayıcı ağları, yapay zeka, veri kümeleme, veri madenciliği, yazılım mühendisliği, sinyal işleme, robotik vb. konular üzerinde çalışmalar yapılmaktadır. Bilgisayar Mühendisliği Anabilim Dalı öğrencilerine araştırmalarında katkıda bulunmakta ve onlara yeni ve güncel çalışma alanları sunmaktadır.
Teaching Methods
The most frequently used Instructional Methods of the educational programs of Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University are given below.
- Expression
- Question-Answer
- Discussion
- Exercise and Practice
- Presentation
- Guided Practice
- Role Playing
- Group Study
- Simulation
- Brain Storming
- Six Hat
- Case Study
- Experiment - Test / Lab/ Workshop / Field Practice
- Self study
- Problem Solving
- Project Based Learning (Including Field Work)
Assessment Methods
The most frequently used Evaluation Methods of the educational programs of Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University are given below.
- Testing (Essay / Tests: True-Falls, multiple-choice, short answer, matching)
- Oral Exam
- Homework
- Project / Design
- Portfolio
- Performance Assignment ( Lab / Workshop / Field Work / Seminar / Presentation / Completion Study / Thesis
Admission Requirements
-Bachelor degree in Computer Engineering or Software Engineering and graduate degree in Computer Engineering / Computer Science and Engineering or Software Engineering with thesis
-Candidates coming from outside the field are applied scientific preparation program.
-Get at least 55 points from ALES (SAY-point type),
-To get a score of at least 55 from YDS or YÖKDİL, or from the foreign language exams accepted as equivalent by ÖSYM,
-Graduates of the Master's program without thesis cannot apply to the doctoral program. However, students who are enrolled in non-thesis master's programs and who have graduated before 06/02/2013 can apply to the doctoral program,
-The courses of this program are given in İstanbul Sabahattin Zaim University Halkalı campus.
Graduation Requirements
Completing the courses successfully, with a GPA at 3.00 or above, and being successful in the thesis examination; for the student who submitted at least two copies of the bound thesis to the Institute within one month from the date of entrance to the thesis examination and whose theses endorsed by the format shall be granted by a doctoral diploma / Ph.D..
Access to Further Studies
The students graduating from this program may apply to Postdoctoral Programs.
Study Plan
1th Semester
Number of Compulsory Courses: 4 Number of Elective Courses: 0
| Code | Course Name | Type | Language of Instruction | T | P | L | H | ECTS | Cr. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BLS 001 | Departmental Elective Course | Departmental Elective | Turkish | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7.5 | 3 |
| BLS 002 | Departmental Elective Course | Departmental Elective | Turkish | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7.5 | 3 |
| BLS 003 | Departmental Elective Course | Departmental Elective | Turkish | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7.5 | 3 |
| BLS 004 | Departmental Elective Course | Departmental Elective | English | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7.5 | 3 |
| Total: | 12 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 30,0 | 12,0 | |||
1th Semester Elective Courses
| Code | Course Name | Type | Language of Instruction | T | P | L | H | ECTS | Cr. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CSE 505 | Machine Learning | Departmental Elective | English | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7.5 | 3 |
| CSE 507 | Distributed Systems | Departmental Elective | Turkish | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7.5 | 3 |
| CSE 509 | Wireless Sensor Networks | Departmental Elective | Turkish | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7.5 | 3 |
| CSE 511 | Image Processing | Departmental Elective | English | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7.5 | 3 |
| CSE 513 | Information Retrieval | Departmental Elective | Turkish | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7.5 | 3 |
| CSE 515 | Multimedia Systems | Departmental Elective | Turkish | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7.5 | 3 |
| CSE 517 | Data Analysis and Visualization | Departmental Elective | English | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7.5 | 3 |
| CSE 519 | New Trends in Information and Communication Technologies-I | Departmental Elective | Turkish | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7.5 | 3 |
| CSE 521 | Machine Translation | Departmental Elective | English | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7.5 | 3 |
| CSE 597 | Scientific Research Methods | Departmental Elective | Turkish | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7.5 | 3 |
| CSE 603 | Advanced Artificial Intelligence | Departmental Elective | English | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7.5 | 3 |
| CSE 605 | Parallel Algorithms | Departmental Elective | Turkish | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7.5 | 3 |
| CSE 607 | Pattern-Recognition | Departmental Elective | Turkish | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7.5 | 3 |
| CSE 609 | Big Data Systems | Departmental Elective | English | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7.5 | 3 |
| CSE 611 | Introduction to Social Networks | Departmental Elective | Turkish | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7.5 | 3 |
| CSE 613 | Advanced Computer Architecture | Departmental Elective | Turkish | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7.5 | 3 |
| CSE 615 | Advanced Systems Integration | Departmental Elective | Turkish | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7.5 | 3 |
| CSE 617 | Mobile Robots Modelling and Controling | Departmental Elective | Turkish | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7.5 | 3 |
| CSE 619 | Natural Language Processing | Departmental Elective | English | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7.5 | 3 |
| CSE 621 | Advanced Data Mining | Departmental Elective | English | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7.5 | 3 |
| CSE 623 | Smart Grid | Departmental Elective | English | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7.5 | 3 |
| CSE 625 | Deep Learning | Departmental Elective | Turkish | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7.5 | 3 |
| CSE 627 | Internet of Things | Departmental Elective | Turkish | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7.5 | 3 |
| CSE 629 | Advanced Algorithms I | Departmental Elective | Turkish | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7.5 | 3 |
| CSE 631 | Advanced Topics in Network Systems | Departmental Elective | Turkish | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7.5 | 3 |
| CSE 633 | Advanced Topics in Software Engineering | Departmental Elective | Turkish | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7.5 | 3 |
| CSE 635 | Advanced Topics in Robotics | Departmental Elective | Turkish | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7.5 | 3 |
| Total: | 81 | 0 | 0 | 81 | 202,5 | 81,0 | |||
2nd Semester
Number of Compulsory Courses: 4 Number of Elective Courses: 0
| Code | Course Name | Type | Language of Instruction | T | P | L | H | ECTS | Cr. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CSE 699 | Seminar | Compulsory | Turkish | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7.5 | 2 |
| BLS 001 | Departmental Elective Course | Departmental Elective | Turkish | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7.5 | 3 |
| BLS 002 | Departmental Elective Course | Departmental Elective | Turkish | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7.5 | 3 |
| BLS 003 | Departmental Elective Course | Departmental Elective | English | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7.5 | 3 |
| Total: | 11 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 30,0 | 11,0 | |||
2nd Semester Elective Courses
| Code | Course Name | Type | Language of Instruction | T | P | L | H | ECTS | Cr. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CSE 506 | Computer Networks and Communications | Departmental Elective | English | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7.5 | 3 |
| CSE 508 | Cloud Computing | Departmental Elective | English | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7.5 | 3 |
| CSE 510 | Advanced Software Engineering | Departmental Elective | Turkish | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7.5 | 3 |
| CSE 512 | Human-Computer Interaction | Departmental Elective | Turkish | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7.5 | 3 |
| CSE 514 | Real-Time Systems | Departmental Elective | Turkish | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7.5 | 3 |
| CSE 516 | Debugger Design | Departmental Elective | Turkish | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7.5 | 3 |
| CSE 520 | New Trends in Information and Communication Technologies-II | Departmental Elective | Turkish | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7.5 | 3 |
| CSE 602 | Mobile Ad-hoc Network | Departmental Elective | English | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7.5 | 3 |
| CSE 604 | Cryptography and Computer Security | Departmental Elective | Turkish | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7.5 | 3 |
| CSE 606 | Artificial Neural Networks | Departmental Elective | Turkish | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7.5 | 3 |
| CSE 607 | Pattern-Recognition | Departmental Elective | Turkish | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7.5 | 3 |
| CSE 608 | The Quality of the Software and Measuring Means | Departmental Elective | Turkish | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7.5 | 3 |
| CSE 609 | Big Data Systems | Departmental Elective | English | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7.5 | 3 |
| CSE 610 | Advanced Natural Language Processing | Departmental Elective | English | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7.5 | 3 |
| CSE 612 | Machine Vision | Departmental Elective | Turkish | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7.5 | 3 |
| CSE 616 | Digital Signal Processing | Departmental Elective | English | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7.5 | 3 |
| CSE 618 | Numerical VLSI Testing | Departmental Elective | English | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7.5 | 3 |
| CSE 622 | Adaptive Control Systems | Departmental Elective | English | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7.5 | 3 |
| CSE 624 | Numerical Methods in Engineering | Departmental Elective | Turkish | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7.5 | 3 |
| CSE 626 | Introduction to General Purpose GPU Programming | Departmental Elective | Turkish | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7.5 | 3 |
| CSE 628 | Special Topics in Control and Automation Systems | Departmental Elective | Turkish | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7.5 | 3 |
| CSE 630 | Advanced Algorithms II | Departmental Elective | Turkish | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7.5 | 3 |
| CSE 632 | Advanced Topics in Data Science | Departmental Elective | Turkish | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7.5 | 3 |
| CSE 634 | Advanced Topics in Computer Science | Departmental Elective | Turkish | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7.5 | 3 |
| CSE 636 | High Performance Computing with GPU | Departmental Elective | Turkish | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7.5 | 3 |
| Total: | 75 | 0 | 0 | 75 | 187,5 | 75,0 | |||
3rd Semester
Number of Compulsory Courses: 1 Number of Elective Courses: 0
| Code | Course Name | Type | Language of Instruction | T | P | L | H | ECTS | Cr. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CSE 600 | PhD Thesis | Compulsory | Turkish | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 180 | 3 |
| Total: | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 180,0 | 3,0 | |||
4th Semester
Number of Compulsory Courses: 1 Number of Elective Courses: 0
| Code | Course Name | Type | Language of Instruction | T | P | L | H | ECTS | Cr. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CSE 600 | PhD Thesis | Compulsory | Turkish | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 0 |
| Total: | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30,0 | 0,0 | |||
5th Semester
Number of Compulsory Courses: 1 Number of Elective Courses: 0
| Code | Course Name | Type | Language of Instruction | T | P | L | H | ECTS | Cr. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CSE 600 | PhD Thesis | Compulsory | Turkish | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 0 |
| Total: | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30,0 | 0,0 | |||
6th Semester
Number of Compulsory Courses: 1 Number of Elective Courses: 0
| Code | Course Name | Type | Language of Instruction | T | P | L | H | ECTS | Cr. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CSE 600 | PhD Thesis | Compulsory | Turkish | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 0 |
| Total: | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30,0 | 0,0 | |||
7th Semester
Number of Compulsory Courses: 1 Number of Elective Courses: 0
| Code | Course Name | Type | Language of Instruction | T | P | L | H | ECTS | Cr. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CSE 600 | PhD Thesis | Compulsory | Turkish | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 0 |
| Total: | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30,0 | 0,0 | |||
8th Semester
Number of Compulsory Courses: 1 Number of Elective Courses: 0
| Code | Course Name | Type | Language of Instruction | T | P | L | H | ECTS | Cr. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CSE 600 | PhD Thesis | Compulsory | Turkish | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 0 |
| Total: | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30,0 | 0,0 | |||
Course Load Summary
| Course Load Summary | T | P | L | H | ECTS | Cr. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grand Total (Number of Courses: 14) | 26 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 390,0 | 26,0 |
| Compulsory Course Total (Number of Courses: 7) | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 337,5 | 5,0 |
| Elective Course Total (Number of Courses: 7) | 21 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 52,5 | 21,0 |
| Course Type | Number of Courses | Ratio (%) |
|---|---|---|
| Zorunlu Ders | 7 | 50,00 |
| Seçmeli Ders | 7 | 50,00 |
| Bölüm Dışı Seçmeli Ders | 0 | 0,00 |
T: Theory, P: Practice, L: Laboratory, WCH: Weekly Course Hours, ECTS: European Credit Transfer System, Cr.: Credit



