This course will explore both the digitalization and transformation dimensions of Digital Transformation. It will introduce key technologies that drive digital transformation, including IoT, Cloud/Edge Computing, Blockchain, AI and GenAI, Smart and Collaborative Robots, A/V/M Reality, the Metaverse, and Additive Manufacturing. The course will cover the history, current state, and future trends of these technologies, along with real-world use cases, best practices in business and society, and their potential to create new business models. On the transformation side, the course will focus on strategies and methods for decision-making in an increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous digital landscape. It will also examine frameworks such as Design Thinking and The Lean Startup, which help entrepreneurs and innovation teams navigate uncertainty as they explore new opportunities.
Digital Transformation (IE 404)
Programs\Type | Required | Core Elective | Area Elective |
Microelectronics | * | ||
Telecommunications | * |
CONTENT
LEARNING OUTCOMES
- ? Explore and compare the historical evolution, current applications, and emerging trends of digital transformation technologies to evaluate their impact on engineering, business, and society.
- ? Critically assess case studies and use cases of digital transformation technologies in various industries, identifying best practices and potential pitfalls in implementing transformative digital solutions.
- ? Demonstrate proficiency in developing strategies for decision-making in volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous environments, integrating technology, data, and human-centric approaches.
- ? Apply knowledge of digital transformation technologies to design innovative solutions and business models, leveraging frameworks such as Design Thinking and The Lean Startup to address real-world challenges.
- ? Synthesize insights from historical developments, current trends, and emerging innovations to forecast future opportunities and challenges in digital transformation.
PROGRAMME OUTCOMES
1. Understand the world, their country, their society, as well as themselves and have awareness of ethical problems, social rights, values and responsibility to the self and to others.
2. Understand different disciplines from natural and social sciences to mathematics and art, and develop interdisciplinary approaches in thinking and practice.
3. Think critically, follow innovations and developments in science and technology, demonstrate personal and organizational entrepreneurship and engage in life-long learning in various subjects; have the ability to continue to educate him/herself.
4. Communicate effectively in Turkish and English by oral, written, graphical and technological means.
5. Take individual and team responsibility, function effectively and respectively as an individual and a member or a leader of a team; and have the skills to work effectively in multi-disciplinary teams.
1. Possess sufficient knowledge of mathematics, science and program-specific engineering topics; use theoretical and applied knowledge of these areas in complex engineering problems.
2. Identify, define, formulate and solve complex engineering problems; choose and apply suitable analysis and modeling methods for this purpose.
3. Develop, choose and use modern techniques and tools that are needed for analysis and solution of complex problems faced in engineering applications; possess knowledge of standards used in engineering applications; use information technologies effectively.
4. Have the ability to design a complex system, process, instrument or a product under realistic constraints and conditions, with the goal of fulfilling specified needs; apply modern design techniques for this purpose.
5. Design and conduct experiments, collect data, analyze and interpret the results to investigate complex engineering problems or program-specific research areas.
6. Possess knowledge of business practices such as project management, risk management and change management; awareness on innovation; knowledge of sustainable development.
7. Possess knowledge of impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, health and societal context; knowledge of contemporary issues; awareness on legal outcomes of engineering solutions; knowledge of behavior according to ethical principles, understanding of professional and ethical responsibility.
8. Have the ability to write effective reports and comprehend written reports, prepare design and production reports, make effective presentations, and give and receive clear and intelligible instructions.