Abstract
Technical education in Turkey evolved from the Ottoman Empire. This characteristic prevailed until late 1700s when defeats of the Ottoman military led to the establishment of the institutions for technical education that drew on the positive sciences. At the end of the 19th century, military engineering institutions were transformed into civilian ones. With the foundation of an independent and secular Republic of Turkey in 1923, engineering education became one of the priorities of the new nation-state to develop industry and increase the wealth of the country. By the 1950s, the expansion and liberalization of the economy required new engineering institutions. The presence of foreign engineers led Turkish engineers to create the Union of Turkish Chambers of Engineers and Architects, thus restructuring the institutional features of the engineering field. Liberalization of the economy after the 1980s resulted in an exponential increase in the number of universities and engineering faculties. Currently, Turkey as 77 universities, 62 of which have engineering schools.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 26-35 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | IEEE Technology and Society Magazine |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue number | 2 |
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| Publication status | Published - Jun 2006 |
Funding
Travel support from the U.S. National Science Foundation for one of the authors (Tantekin-Ersolmaz) to attend the 2004 ASEE Annual Conference is gratefully acknowledged. The authors also wish to thank Ahmet F. Öncü from the Sabanci University in Istanbul for providing two of the listed references.
| Funders | Funder number |
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| U.S. National Science Foundation |
