OCCUPATIONAL PROFILES OF GRADUATES

Graduates of Geodetic and Photogrammetric Engineering are employed in public institutions or organizations, and the private sector producing and using maps in the following topics:

• Regulations and legal affairs related to urban and rural areas,
• Cadastre applications, zoning applications, condemnation and real estate valuation,
• Production of large, medium, small scale digital and printed topographic and thematic maps,
• Implementation of road, rail, bridge, dam, subway, tunnel and building construction projects to the land,
• Monitoring of the Earth's surface movements, controlling of engineering constructions, deformation measurements and analysis,
• Satellite based positioning (GPS) and vehicle tracking systems,
• Data collection and processing by the help of aerial and satellite imagery,
• Constructing Spatial databases and Geographical Information Systems (GIS),
• Drawing restoration plans using Close-Range Photogrammetry and Laser-Scanning data,
• Establishing horizontal and vertical control networks
• Publishing spatial data and maps on web and mobile devices

Generally in private sector, graduates are employed in private engineering offices, construction and infrastructure firms, companies working on GIS platform, companies providing technical equipment and services, companies working on real estate valuation and land evaluation and software companies. In public sector, Geodetic and Photogrammetric Engineers are employed in Ministry of Environment and Urban Planning and its associated organizations namely, General Directorate of Land Registry and Cadastre, General Directorate of Highways, General Directorate of Disaster Affairs, Housing Development Administration, Turkish State Railways, General Directorate of State Airports Authority; General Command of Mapping, Ministry of Energy And Natural Resources and its associated organizations namely, General Directorate of Mineral Research and Exploration (MTA), General Directorate of State Hydraulic Works (DSİ), Turkish Petroleum Corporation (TPAO); Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock, Ministry of Forestry and Water Affairs, and provincial and district municipalities.