SWOT ANALYSİS

Strengths
1. Having a large number of faculty members
2. Young faculty members
3. It’s being an all time popular program
4. Intense preference by the students
5. Easy employment for graduates
6. Easily done teamworks
7. Location in the city centre
8. Presence of the faculties that graduates can be enrolled through vertical transfer
9. Academic personel can be supported from the other departments of the university
10. Strong unity, coalescence and social cohesion within department

Weaknesses

1. Lack of professional labs
2. Inadequate training course controls
3. Lack of advance in school and industry collaboration
4. Lack of modern built classrooms
5. Poor quality students due to the open admission
6. Not being able to publish the projects after any team work
7. Lack of technological equipments

Opportunities

1. Master degree and doctorate opportunites for our academic staff
2. Institutional reform efforts
3. Peace in the department
4. Effective communication with the other programs and prestige among others
5. Young and dinamic academic staff
6. Need for intermediate staff due to the economic and industrial changes

Threats

1. Absence of faculty members
2. Unfinished reorganization of the department based on European standarts
3. Lack of financial resource
4. Decrease in the quality of enrolled students
5. Negative motivation due to the vertical transfer quota shortage
6. Difficulties in renewing lab equipments due to the fast technological developments