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: [email protected]
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: