Department History and Introduction

In 1962, with the Law No. 165 “Law on the opening of a new technical school in Zonguldak”, the Mining Technical School, whose building construction started in Zonguldak, was transformed into the State Academy of Engineering and Architecture with the Law No. 1184 while the building construction was continuing. According to Law No. 1184, the academy, which included the Mining, Mechanical, Electrical and Civil Engineering Departments, was transformed into the Faculty of Engineering consisting of the Mining and Mechanical Engineering Departments with the Decree Law No. 41 enacted in 1981, and was affiliated to Hacettepe University on 20.07.1982 under the name Zonguldak Engineering Faculty. Upon the establishment of Zonguldak Karaelmas University in 1992 with the law numbered 3837, the Department of Mechanical Engineering within the Faculty of Engineering, which forms the basis of the university, has reached today.