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GENERAL INFORMATION
Cement Engineering is an interdisciplinary graduate
program aiming to provide the engineers with the necessary knowledge
and technical background desired by the cement industry. The program
has been proposed and backed by the Turkish Cement Manufacturers’
Association (TÇMB) representing the Turkish cement industry.
The industry, being one the largest of its kind in the World based
on the capacity and annual production of its 39 factories and
18 grinding plants, usually ranks within the top three in Europe
and top eight in the World. It employs around 8400 people including
about 1500 engineers and technical personnel and also provides
jobs to some 4600 people belonging to various contractors in the
factories.
Currently most of the engineers employed in the
cement industry have either chemical or mechanical engineering
degrees. On the other hand, the manufacturing of cement involves
various stages such as the evaluation and mining of the raw materials
- mainly limestone and clay - and later, crushing, grinding, proportioning
and calcining them. In modern cement plants all the operations
are carried with electromechanical and electronic remote control
systems. Continuous quality control is maintained over the production
and the environmental regulations are strictly followed. Thus,
manufacturing of cement is an interdisciplinary activity related
not only to chemical and mechanical engineering but also to mining,
geological, electrical, industrial, environmental, and civil engineering
fields.
Being aware of the interdisciplinary nature of cement manufacturing,
Turkish Cement Manufacturers’ Association (TÇMB)
has defined a “cement engineer” preferred by the industry,
as “An engineer who possesses the minimum technical and
administrative knowledge related to all of the stages of cement
manufacturing, from mining the raw materials to the utilization
of cement”. The graduate program on cement engineering is
designed to raise such engineers and to fulfill the needs of the
cement industry. Therefore, the aim of the Middle East Technical
University Cement Engineering Graduate Program is to prepare skilled
students to pursue successful professional careers in the cement
industry. However, it is anticipated that the graduates of this
program will not only be preferred by the cement industry but
with their background, they will also have better job opportunities
in similar industries such as concrete, lime, gypsum, ceramics,
brick and tile industries.
OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAM
M.S. Program in Cement Engineering aims to equip the students
with a knowledge and understanding of the theoretical and practical
aspects related to various stages of cement manufacturing and
utilizing cement, both at technical and at administrative levels.
In particular, the program aims to provide the students with:
• Basic knowledge on chemistry and manufacturing of cement;
Constitution of cement components and their phase relations, calcination
reactions in rotary kiln, energy and material balance, hydration
reactions and products,
• Basic knowledge on types, standards and quality control
of cement and cement –based materials (mostly concrete)
and their utilization,
• An understanding of the characteristics of cement raw
materials in relation to cement production and quality, methods
of extracting, crushing and grinding the raw materials like clay
and limestone,
• Basic knowledge on power distribution network and process
automation in cement plants, computer aided process and quality
control systems, plant air and water networks, mechanical aspects
for mills and kilns
• Basic knowledge on sustainable developments in cement
industry and general management systems for cement plant operation.
• An ability to work in various parts of a cement plant
at technical or at administrative levels to perform the required
tasks efficiently with considerations of energy-saving and environmental
issues,
• An ability to develop a vision for the future developments
in the plant, to detect the technical and administrative shortcomings
and propose solutions for them.
ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS
Admission priority is based on the assessment of the applicant’s
capacity to pursue the program. Consideration is given to applicant’s
undergraduate record (CGPA), Graduate Selection Examination (LES)
or Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) score, letters of references,
and English Proficiency.
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