Forest Construction and Transportation Division is one of the nine divisions in the Department of Forest Engineering. Education activities in the Department of Forest Engineering started in the academic year of 1996-1997. The first students graduated from the department in 2000. Graduate level education in Forest Construction and Transportation Division started in 2010.

The main research areas of the division are forest roads planning; construction and maintenance techniques; forest roads hydraulic structures; mechanization in forestry; mapping, surveying and cadastral studies in forestry; planning and occupational safety in forestry and ergonomics; forest commissioning, transportation and harvesting techniques in forestry; forest transportation planning; geographic information sciences (GIS) in forestry.

Undergraduate courses offered by the Forest Construction and Transportation Division

GIS in Forestry
Surveying and Mapping in Forestry
Forest Roads
Forest Transportation Techniques
Forestry Ergonomics
Forest Construction
Forest Mechanization

Graduate courses offered by the Forest Construction and Transportation Division

GIS Applications in Forestry
Forest Labour and Ergonomics
Forest Roads Planning, Construction and Maintenance Techniques
Forest Roads Hydraulic Structures
Forest Machinery
Forest Harvesting, Transportation and Depot Techniques
Transport Planning of Reduced Impacts and Logging
Environmental Damages of Forest Harvesting
Image Processing in Remote Sensing with Matlab
Data Mining in GIS

Academic Staff

Division Head: Assist. Prof. Dr. Ender BUĞDAY