Department of Biosystems Engineering

Career Opportunities

Biosystems Engineers will graduate from a department (the Biosystem Engineering Department), which includes sub-programs of Agricultural Structures and Irrigation, Agricultural Machinery and Agricultural Energy Systems, which previously provided training in the form of sub-programs under the Agricultural Engineering Program, in the third part of the Regulation on the Duties and Authorities of Agricultural Engineers. Therefore, they will benefit from all of the Duties and Authorities (Irrigation-Drainage, Agricultural Structures, Agricultural Tools and Machines) according to their License and Specialization Areas. Accordingly, Biosystems Engineers work to provide irrigation facilities, ponds to provide irrigation water and animal drinking water, drainage, soil and water conservation facilities to prevent soil erosion, research. They also survey, plan, carry out project implementation and control services related to agricultural structures. do land leveling, field head canals, field group roads, in-field irrigation and drainage facilities, land reclamation, consolidation, distribution and similar soil and water use development projects, soil water plant relations studies, feasibility, planning, project design related to the use of water in agriculture in irrigation facilities to implement and control. They design agricultural tools and machinery,  prepare and sign projects,  examine, test and analyze the necessary documents or licensing procedures for the manufacture, marketing, import and export of agricultural tools and machinery; They will be authorized to make the designs of agricultural energy systems, to prepare and sign projects, to examine, audit and analyze the necessary documents or licensing procedures for the manufacture, marketing, import and export of agricultural energy systems.
Biosystems Engineers who have graduated from the department, regarding the above-mentioned study subjects, can pursue careers in public institutions (special provincial administrations, agriculture and forestry, Ministries of Environment and Urbanization, Municipalities, State Hydraulic Works, Agriculture and Rural Development Support Institution, etc.), land consolidation contracting firms, universities (as teaching staff), Turkey agricultural credit cooperatives, sugar factories, agricultural machinery and tractor production and marketing companies, agricultural consulting organizations, public and private banks, agricultural machinery contracting organizations, agricultural irrigation (drip, sprinkler, etc.) and drainage system elements, companies that produce, market and design, firms that perform land leveling, firms dealing with renewable energy, firms working on greenhouse construction materials and greenhouse construction, firms working on surveying and remote sensing, irrigation unions, irrigation-drainage contracting firms, private engineering and consultancy offices, technology development zones, contracting firms related to agricultural structures, agriculture based international companies There are also employment opportunities in animal husbandry-based machinery industry, food machinery industry and large agricultural enterprises.