It is aimed for our graduates to approach problems with a scientific research-based analytical approach, adopt the principle of lifelong learning, gain engineering design ability, produce projects according to scientific research methods, have ethical values, and adopt the principle of lifelong learning, to gain engineering design ability, to produce projects by scientific research methods, to have ethical values and to carry out teamwork with leadership qualities. Our basic education and training principles adopted to achieve these goals are as follows:

Analytical Approach: An educational approach that has, questions cause-effect relationships, and leads to discovering conceptual relations has been adopted. Reference sources in all courses are selected from among the world's leading reference books in line with this main idea. The student is encouraged not to take the information ready, but to produce it herself/himself as much as possible with conceptual relations. Thus, it is aimed to equip our graduates with a rational and analytical engineering perspective.

Lifelong Learning: Learning for an intellectual person is a lifelong cycle like eating and drinking. Learning how to learn is an inevitable need for development. Our curriculum has been prepared by international criteria to equip our students with basic methods and scientific perspectives in science and engineering. On this basis, the individual's ability to learn independently is encouraged. Our graduates will start their careers as engineers who are open to development and aware of lifelong learning. Scientific research is a work discipline that requires creativity, hard work and dedication. Another priority of our department is to provide our students with the discipline of conducting scientific research. The ability to conduct scientific research is universally valid. For this reason, it is ensured that our students perform applications with the discipline of scientific research and it is aimed that they can present their studies by academic writing requirements.

Project-Based Education: As it is known, passing a course or getting a diploma is not enough to make a good start in business life. When students start their university education, they usually start with a blank resume. On the other hand, companies are all expecting a full resume page. For this reason, in the first year of education and training, students are supported with a career planning course. According to their tendencies, their goals are determined with the help of faculty members. It is a primary goal of our department that our students graduate with a project-based education approach and a full curriculum vitae that meets internationally sought-after qualifications. 

Leadership Ability: An engineer with weak social and communication skills is unlikely to be happy in her/his professional life, no matter how good her/his technique is. Effective cooperation and social communication skills are very important in a productive professional life. In addition, the presentation of the work is as important as the technical quality of the work. Sometimes even how well the work is presented or marketed can be more effective than the technical content of the work. Therefore, during the education, our students are supported with courses on public speaking, academic presentation and writing, social communication skills, and leadership skills. In project applications, they are directed to teamwork and each individual in the team must take an active role. In addition, our students are encouraged to study abroad for at least one semester in various European countries through student exchange programs. It is aimed to raise self-confident individuals, who can speak Turkish and English comfortably, can cooperate and lead, and can work in harmony with different cultures.

Engineering Design Capability: The best way to learn a job is to do it yourself. The idea has been adopted as a priority principle in the context of education. Software engineering is not just about software or programming. Our students learn how the computer works like a machine. For this purpose, the design of digital logic circuits and subsequent computer architecture and design courses were added to the curriculum. With these complementary courses, students develop their chip designs, starting with the simplest electronic circuit elements. By combining the chips they have developed, they create and test a simple microcomputer design for educational purposes. Students can design, implement and test their compiler software and their programming language for the microcomputer system they have built. It is very important for our students to design a computer with an approach from the parts to the whole and to gain this self-confidence. A feature that distinguishes software engineers from programmers is that they can make software development decisions with their engineering basic knowledge, engineering perspective, and design capability. This feature highlights software/computer engineers as decision-makers and managers in the execution of large-scale software systems and projects integrated with hardware components. Computer operating systems, computer networks, state machine design, etc. are in the scope of the training. The courses are broadened design capability and hardware understanding. The last two years of the curriculum include specialized courses on software design. Our graduates recognize the processes of software design, the industrial and international norms underlying these processes.

Ethical Values: The approach that prioritizes diligence, virtues, and ethical values has been determined as one of the main principles of education and training. A well-deserved diploma is not only an individual but also a social gain. Strengthening industriousness, virtues and ethical values contribute to both the individual and the society with positive feedback. Societies, where labor and intellectual property rights are appropriately protected, are more amenable to intellectual productivity. Therefore, our students are encouraged to work as hardworking, virtuous, and ethical individuals.

Information on the Problems of the Age: The beliefs of the ancient societies of the past, which they accepted as indisputable and absolute truths, have turned into the mythological legends of today. While social acceptances are drifting in various directions depending on time and power focus, the universal principles based on the scientific approach maintain their validity throughout the ages. For this reason, we aim to educate students who are open to questioning, criticism, and free-thinking, seeking universal truths and adopting a scientific perspective in their lifestyle. We encourage our students to explore why advanced and prosperous societies thrive and why some others lag behind. For this reason, history of civilizations and Turkish history courses were added to the curriculum. Today's problems are the results of what happened in the past. We aim to provide graduates who can compare the philosophies, societies, and cultures of the past without prejudice and who can look at today's problems from an impartial and rational point of view.

Social Activity: Life is not just about business. Human is a social creatures and to ensure a balanced life, it is necessary to enrich the life order with various social relations and activities. Diverse social activities and relationships relax the minds of professionals who work with intense brainpower and reduce the effect of fatigue and reinforce the joy of life. Short breaks that ease your brain make you even more productive at work. For these reasons, in the first years of engineering education, students are encouraged to actively participate in social activities in student clubs according to their interests.

Health and Sports: Mental fatigue is not the only possible problem in the software engineering profession. Another important and precautionary issue is occupational health. Think of the great cavities that dripping water makes on the stone or the great plateaus formed by the streams in the mountains. Physical effects, which are continuous with stability, cause significant wear over time. Similar to nature, long-term and stable loads on the same points of the spine in the human body can cause deformative effects. Sitting at a desk for a long time and looking at the monitor can cause physical damage to the skeletal and muscular system over time. In this type of working order, lumbar hernia, neck hernia, or the need to use glasses may occur in the following years. For these reasons, to protect the health, a working discipline with breaks, a life order that includes mobility and/or sports discipline should be established from the very beginning. To ensure this mobility, we encourage our students to participate in activities that involve regular physical activity. There are various sports clubs, travel clubs, and folklore/dance clubs within our university. Our students are supported and encouraged to participate in activities that provide regular sportive activities during their education.

Interdisciplinary Work: The industrial revolution enabled machines to replace manual power. With the introduction of computers into our lives, all machines have turned into computer systems. Today, almost all of the machines and tools we see around us regarding technology are working with the software. Software is now made not only for machines but also for changing living creatures. For example, the protein structure of a virus and the effectiveness of the anti-virus to be developed are analyzed by software. Similarly, the chemistry of antibiotics effective against bacteria can be designed with software. Now, researchers are trying to discover the human genome structure, in other words, nature's software, with man-made software. As exemplified in these explanations, software engineering is about all branches of science that study nature or uses technological tools. The technical infrastructure necessary to work with different disciplines is created for our students. Students are given the ability to use modern engineering and software development tools.