ME 481 is the first half of the senior capstone, where you take a real engineering problem from a vague customer need to a fully specified design on paper. You work in a team with both an academic and industry mentor, and the semester is paced by deliverables — statement of need, concept selection with a design matrix, preliminary design report, and a detailed design report — interleaved with committee presentations and the option to package the work as a TÜBİTAK grant proposal. It's where the analysis-heavy courses from earlier years finally get pointed at one concrete deliverable, and ME 482 in the spring is where you actually build and test what you spec'd here.
→ STARS müfredatı (resmi syllabus)
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| Dönem | Course CPA | |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-2026 Fall | 3.77 | 4 sec · 166 öğr |
| 2024-2025 Fall | 3.65 | 2 sec · 150 öğr |
| 2023-2024 Fall | 3.52 | 2 sec · 68 öğr |
| 2022-2023 Fall | 3.28 | 2 sec · 166 öğr |
| 2021-2022 Fall | 3.41 | 2 sec · 146 öğr |
| 2020-2021 Fall | 3.28 | 2 sec · 154 öğr |
| 2019-2020 Fall | 3.25 | 2 sec · 202 öğr |
| 2018-2019 Fall | 3.18 | 2 sec · 186 öğr |
| 2017-2018 Fall | 3.25 | 2 sec · 200 öğr |
| 2016-2017 Fall | 3.20 | 2 sec · 90 öğr |
Aggregate course GPA — Bilkent STARS'tan public data. Hoca-bazlı per-section detayı için STARS evaluation report →. Öğrenci anket cevapları KVKK kapsamında defter'de tutulmaz.
Course Learning Outcomes: Course Learning Outcome Assessment Able to identify and clearly explain a design problem together with its requirements and constraints. Company Mentor/TA Evaluation Progress Presentation Final Presentation Reports (Need statement, Concept selection, Preliminary design, Detailed design) Able to prepare a project plan, which includes work-packages, milestones and load sharing among team members. Company Mentor/TA Evaluation Progress Presentation Final Presentation Report