Environmental Protection and Control

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND CONTROL

The Environmental Protection and Control Program, affiliated with the Department of Environmental Protection Technologies, is a program that provides theoretical and practical training on the solution and control of environmental problems resulting from the pollution of natural resources such as water, air and soil as a result of industrialization and rapid population growth, as well as the sustainable use of natural resources.

The aim of the program is to train professional staff who are aware of environmental problems and who can meet the needs of private sector and public enterprises in the areas of establishing and operating the necessary facilities for the disposal of wastes that cause air, water and soil pollution without harming the environment, implementing the analyses conducted for the purpose of detecting pollution, investigating environmental pollution and evaluating the results to be obtained, and implementing legal regulations, within the scope of the process of harmonization with the current regulations and laws on the way to Turkey's membership in the European Union, which is of increasing importance today. In recent years, the demand of students who want to receive university education in this regard has also been increasing.

The aim of the program is to contribute to meeting the need for professional staff by ensuring that graduates have the knowledge, skills and equipment to take on responsibilities in the private sector and public institutions and organizations.

Graduates of Environmental Health and Environmental Health Technician departments of vocational high schools can apply for exam-free transfer to the program. They can be placed if they meet the necessary conditions. Graduates of departments or high schools other than the departments of vocational high schools designated for exam-free transfer can be placed in open programs according to their requests and ÖSS scores with additional placement if there are quotas left after the exam-free placement. For this, these people must take the exams conducted by ÖSYM Presidency and receive the sufficient “YGS-2” score. The total number of students in the program, which started education in both daytime and evening classes with 50 quotas as of the 2009-2010 academic year, is 27.

In order for students who are eligible to study in the program to become qualified environmental technicians, they must be interested in and successful in science, especially chemistry and biology, sensitive to environmental problems, able to distinguish colors, perceive details, and be careful and organized.

Information about our department in our district Aksu

Aksu and its region have suitable and sufficient application areas and natural resources specific to the region in terms of the Environmental Protection and Control Program. Especially the Aksu Water Factory, where the resources that spoil the natural beauty of the Aksu Stream, which gives its name to the district, and the cold underground water, which is one of the important values of the district, are processed and bottled and converted into drinking water, are important application areas in the district for the program students.

Since the water resources in Aksu region are suitable for trout production and breeding, the researches that can be done on the effects of pollution load originating from widespread trout production and breeding facilities on aquatic ecosystems provide our students with the opportunity for applications that can be carried out both in field and laboratory conditions. Another opportunity offered by Aksu district in terms of program is that the Environmental Protection and Control and Aquaculture Programs can work together on the quality of waters, which is of great importance in trout farming.

Aksu district has a small population and its people do not have much knowledge about environmental protection and control, therefore there is no established environmental awareness in the district. In this context, with the contributions of the district people, authorized institutions and our College students, it is planned to carry out projects on the collection of household waste oils, used waste batteries and the collection of packaging wastes with economic value (paper, glass, plastic etc.) from homes and making them recyclable in order to prevent and protect the ecological structure of the district.

Aksu Mehmet Sureyya Demiraslan Vocational School
Environmental Protection and Control Department

The Chemistry and Microbiology Laboratory within our school has the capacity and equipment to enable students of both the Environmental Protection and Control and Aquaculture and Organic Agriculture Programs to make experimental observations.

The devices and equipment in the laboratory are listed below:

Oven and muffle furnace
Sterilizer
Pure water device
Microscope
Precision Scale
Spectrophotometer
Thermoreactor
Magnetic stirrer with heater
Filtration unit
Various chemicals and glassware

JOB OPPORTUNITIES

Students graduating from the Environmental Protection and Control Program;

Air pollution, noise pollution, solid waste pollution, measuring devices and facility operation equipment used in drinking water and wastewater treatment,
laboratory instruments and devices,
methods of analyzing environmental parameters and data collection,
Learns to use office tools, machines and materials.

Graduates with the above-mentioned professional skills have the opportunity to find work in various environmental units affiliated with the Ministry of Environment and Forestry and various ministries, environmental protection and management units affiliated with municipalities, and private sector representatives. Environmental technicians can find work opportunities especially in laboratories in the employment areas mentioned. Environmental technicians are in contact with environmental, construction, chemical engineers and technicians, health personnel, city and regional planners, and voluntary environmental organizations to the extent required by the job.

The Communiqué of the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization dated May 23, 2019 and numbered 30782 on Technical Personnel Working in Wastewater Treatment Facilities regulates the qualifications, documentation, duties, authorities and responsibilities of technical personnel to be employed in order to ensure that wastewater treatment facilities are operated effectively, efficiently and in accordance with the legislation. In accordance with the relevant Communiqué, it is mandatory to employ at least one Environmental Technician/Technician in Class A (advanced and secondary treatment facilities) urban and industrial wastewater treatment facilities .

Accordingly; our university's Environmental Protection Technologies Department Environmental Protection Control Program graduates have employment opportunities in urban and industrial treatment plants within this scope . It is announced to our students and candidate students.

TECHNICAL TRIPS

Isparta Municipality Wastewater Treatment Plant, Solid Waste Separation and Recycling Plant and Solid Waste Regular Storage Area Technical Tours (Spring Semester of 2009-2010 Academic Year, April 2010): In the first leg of the technical tour

organized within the scope of the Solid Waste and Wastewater Treatment courses being taught in the Environmental Protection and Control Program in the spring semester of 2009-2010 academic year by the Lecturer in charge of the course, Engin Ayar, and the Head of the Environmental Protection Technologies Department, Lecturer Hüseyin Yazıcı, with the participation of approximately 45 students, the students were informed about the processes through which domestic and industrial wastewater collected from the city center of Isparta province is rendered harmless to the environment at the Isparta Municipality Wastewater Treatment Plant and about the operation of the plant. In the second leg of the tour, technical information was provided on how solid wastes collected by separating at the source in Isparta province and having economic value are separated, how they are recycled and what products they turn into after being recycled. In the last leg of the tour, technical information was provided on the operation of the landfill area, gas formation and disposal of garbage leakage water in the regular storage, which is one of the disposal methods of solid wastes collected from the city center and districts of Isparta province.

Technical Visits to Lara Advanced Technology Biological Wastewater Treatment Plant Affiliated to ASAT, 100th Year Compost Plant Affiliated to GATAB and Kemer Wastewater Treatment Plant (2009-2010 Academic Year Spring Semester, May 2010):

As a similar technical visit to the one previously organized for Isparta province mentioned above, a one-day technical visit was organized in May of the 2009-2010 academic year spring semester within the scope of Solid Waste and Wastewater Treatment courses by the Lecturer responsible for the course, Engin Ayar, and the Head of the Environmental Protection Technologies Department, Lecturer Hüseyin Yazıcı, with the participation of approximately 50 students. Unlike the previously organized technical visit, the students were given technical information about composting, another disposal method for solid wastes. In addition, during the technical visit organized to Lara Advanced Technology Biological Wastewater Treatment Plant affiliated with ASAT, students were given detailed information about how wastewater collected from hotels, especially in the region where tourism is intense, is treated with advanced technology and the stages it goes through in the plant.

With these technical trips organized to two different cities, students had the opportunity to observe the differences in the disposal of solid waste and wastewater, get to know the work fields they will encounter in their future professional lives, and gained a productive experience in terms of their professional development.