Associate in Textile Technology
With its advanced technological level and economic efficiency, Turkey’s textile sector is one of the country’s leading industries. To remain competitive, companies in our country must increase their production-quality level; in order to do so, having a qualified workforce is essential. The demand for the employment of Individuals who have received superior applied training in textile technologies within their related fields is gaining importance in the pursuit of such a qualified workforce.
Since the textile sector covers the entire production process from fiber to the finished product, textile education at Istanbul Beykent University Vocational School’s Department of Textile is applied through the reflection of scientific and technological developments occurring in all phases of textile (fiber-yarn-weaving-knitting-finishing-apparel) throughout our four-term educational program.
Our Textile Technology Program details the processes of all stages of textile production, providing students with the basic knowledge and skills of each stage. Proper education is ensured to train qualified professionals; enabling them to use textile machines and to have the required knowledge and skills relating to fiber, yarn, weaving, knitting, finishing, and apparel technologies.
Our Textile Technology Program is a two-year associate degree program.
Within the program’s curriculum, “Textile Materials” classes encapsulate fiber-related topics, as fibers are the raw material of textile. The “Yarn Technology” classes theoretically teach the production of yarn through the spinning of fibers. And our program’s “Weaving Technology” and “Knitting Technology” classes both theoretically and practically teach the formation of fabric from yarn, in the weaving and knitting workshop. The “Fabric Analysis” classes provide theoretical and practical training as concerns different fabrics and the evaluation of their general properties. Apart from these, “Pattern Preparation Techniques” and “Model Application Techniques” classes teach pattern preparation and model application. “Apparel Workshop” as well as “Product Development” classes teach sewing techniques and product production processes, in the apparel workshop.
In addition to applied directed study throughout the 4th term, our educational program involves a 30-working day professional internship.
Our graduates are left with a wide range of career opportunities in various areas of the textile sector. They may work in ready-to-wear, apparel, yarn, weaving, knitting, textile dyeing and finishing; in categories such as production-planning, customer representation, research and development, modeling, and quality departments. In addition, they may teach master classes in schools and courses affiliated with Public Education Centers and municipalities.
Program Specific Requirements
- None.
Learning Outcomes
- The Programme includes all the details relating to production processes, and aims to educate prospective professionals who are able to explain the structure, management, and workflow of a textile business, and gain expertise through works carried out in collaboration with the university and industry, have the basic knowledge and skills such as the knowledge of laboratory devices for textile with different features, sewing and embroidery techniques, and sewing machines, as well as the skills of clothing production, and design skills.
Career Opportunities
- Our graduates will have a wide range of career opportunities in various areas of the textile sector. They can work as customer representatives, outsourcing supervisors, modelists, etc. in production planning, ready-to-wear clothing, apparel, weaving, yarn, knitting, painting and finishing, and computer aided pattern and design departments. They can also work as master trainers in schools and course centres affiliated with the Public Education Centres and municipalities.
- They can start their career even with a little amount of capital and a small workshop, or even with a sewing machine, an iron, and a piece of fabric in a room of their house. Those who improved their skills in pattern design and modelling applications can start production individually.
- Students with Turkish citizenship who take and pass the Vertical Transfer (Transfer from a Two-Year College to a 4-Year One) Examination (DGS) can enrol at an undergraduate degree programme. International students can enrol at an undergraduate degree programme relevant to their field.