Özet:

Academic procrastination, a concept that prevents students from participating in teaching processes efficiently and effectively, can be considered as a problem that they need to solve. Academic procrastination, which is the problem of all individuals, is especially important for engineers who focus on problem solving abilities in education and business life. This research aims to examine the relationship between engineering faculty students' academic procrastination behaviours and problem-solving skills in terms of gender, grade, department, graduated high school type, the region of birth and perceived income level. The data of survey research designed a model of Turkey's largest and reputed engineering school of seven engineering faculty of Istanbul Technical University 400 (152 females and 248 males) were obtained from the participants. As data collection instruments; demographic information form, academic procrastination scale (APS) and problem-solving skills inventory (PSI) were used to the individuals who participated in the research. The findings indicated that the relationship between academic procrastination and problem solving scores is negative and low. In addition, students showed significant differences in problem solving skill levels according to grade and department variables.

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