ERCIYES UNIVERSITY ENGINEERING FACULTY DEPARTMENT
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ERCIYES UNIVERSITY ENGINEERING FACULTY DEPARTMENT
ERCIYES UNIVERSITY ENGINEERING FACULTY DEPARTMENT of CIVIL ENGINEERING I. General Information Technical Foreign Language I Course Title ECTS Credits: 2 Spring Term Civil Engineering Department Credits: 2 Dr. Kamil Aydin, Assoc. Prof. Coordinator Erciyes University, Faculty of Engineering, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 38039 Kayseri, TURKEY E-mail: kaydin@erciyes.edu.tr Web Page : II. Course Information CATALOG DESCRIPTION: Technical words and patterns used in Civil Engineering. Rules of English language in writing technical reports along with grammar knowledge at a certain level. COURSE PRECONDITIONS: Undergraduate students LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Objectives of this course are to 1) teach the students the technical terminology employed in Civil Engineering disciplines, 2) help them to understand technical reference books, and 3) base a foundation enabling them to translate technical reports and books from English to Turkish or vice versa. COURSE STRUCTURE: Lecturing of the course materials by the instructor and presentations performed by the students. TEXTBOOK: • Bülent Kandiller Aysun Velioğlu, Reader at Work 1 Revised Edition , Middle East Technical University , Ankara, 2009 • Bülent Kandiller Aysun Velioğlu Nurcan Tugay, Reader at Work 2 Revised Edition, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, 2008 • Sedat Törel, Türkçe-İngilizce ve teknik notlarla çeviri el kitabı, Törel Yayını, Ankara, 1974 • Lynette Beardwood, Hugh Templeton, M. Webber, A First Course in Technical English, Macmillan Education, 1978 GRADING: One midterm and one final written examination. Exams are closed-book. 40 % of the midterm exam and 60 % of the final exam constitute the raw grade of the course. Raw grade is then converted into letter grade through the curve system. The outcomes are e-mailed to the students. TOPICS: (14 Weeks) (Week 1) Technical terminology in Civil Engineering area (Week 2) Popular topics in Civil Engineering area (Week 3) Introduction to writing of technical reports (Week 4) Parts of a technical report (Weeks 6–7) Tense and grammar knowledge about a technical report (Weeks 8–9) Sample reports by students (Week 10) Evaluations (Weeks 12–14) Presentations OUTCOME COVERAGE: