Civil Engineering

The master's program in Civil Engineering builds on the bachelor's program in Civil Engineering, broadening the knowledge acquired of the discipline and its methods in accordance with the individual student's priorities.

The activity of the civil engineer can be described mainly as designing and calculating the structural elements and entire assemblies as well as the implementation of the plan in reality. Environmental technology is also a rapidly growing area of ​​application for civil engineers. In principle, the tasks of the civil engineer are the most diverse of all engineering professions, both for ecological and economic reasons.

The master's degree in civil engineering deepens the existing technical and methodological knowledge that was acquired in the bachelor's degree in civil engineering or a related degree. Civil engineers work as employees, freelancers and civil servants in construction companies, public administrations, engineering offices, transport companies, in the real estate industry and in many interdisciplinary fields of work. You work in teams and often organize cooperation between different disciplines.

What you will learn

Civil engineers deal with the conception, planning, manufacture and operation of buildings and infrastructure (traffic, supply and disposal) on an engineering basis. Designing, planning, calculating, constructing and organizing are important job characteristics. In particular, they deal with:

• Concrete, steel, wood and glass structures (e.g. buildings, dams, bridges and tunnels)
• Infrastructure systems (e.g. water supply and disposal, traffic systems)
• Environmental protection and regenerative energies (e.g. energetic renovation, geothermal energy and hydropower)
• safety from natural hazards (e.g. flood protection and earthquake-proof construction, fire protection)
• The management of demanding processes (e.g. approval procedures, construction site management, building in existing stock, building while maintaining traffic flows)
• optimization in terms of safety, comfort, energy requirements, comfort, sustainability, costs