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Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department

Fakultät Bauingenieurwesen

Hochschule Konstanz - Technik, Wirtschaft und Gestaltung

Fakultät Bauingenieurwesen
Brauneggerstraße 55
D-78462 Konstanz
Telephone: +49 7531 206-211
https://www.htwg-konstanz.de

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Basic information

Teaching staff at the department

22

Percentage of teaching by practitioners

30.0%

Percentage of teaching by practitioners, master's

40.0%

Teaching in core subjects

  • Basics (e.g., maths): 24.9%
  • Construction Engineering: 22.6%
  • Water Management: 11.3%
  • Ressource Management: 18.1%
  • Transport Systems, Urban and Regional planning: 7.2%
  • Construction Management: 15.8%
  • Other fields: 0%

Support during the study entry phase

Total score for support in the study entry phase

10/14 points

Job market- and career-orientation

Bachelor theses in cooperation with work environment

90.4%

Master theses in cooperation with work environment

90.6%

Professors with own engineering company

20.0%

Research

Cooperative doctoral degrees (in three years)

4

Third party funds per professor

no data

Not specified

Further information provided by the department

Special features regarding the equipment

The department features the laboratories listed below. These are available to students for courses as well as for seminar papers and final papers: Surveying laboratory; Hydraulic engineering laboratory (hydraulic engineering and community water management); Light laboratory; Computer laboratories (cf. IT); BIM Lab; Building materials laboratory for concrete and brick, geoengineering and roadbuilding materials and construction chemistry; Demonstration room for building materials; Learning laboratory in environmental chemistry. HTWG also has a Public Testing Laboratory for Building Materials, Geoengineering and Road Building Materials (ÖP).

Special features regarding research and development

Areas of research focus of the Civil Engineering Department are ‘Earthquake-proof building and building dynamics’, ‘Water management systems’, ‘Sustainable building’, ‘Building information modelling’, ‘Environmental and resource management’ and ‘Project management’

Further information on research activities

Civil Engineering

Facts

Total number of students at the department

340

Number of master degree students (w/o teacher qualification)

70

Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses

Teacher support
Support in studies
Courses offered
Study organisation
Exam organisation
Digital teaching elements
Offers for career orientation
Support during practical semester
Rooms
Library
IT-infrastructure
Overall study situation
Return rate of the questionnaires

73

Students' assessments on consecutive master's degree courses

Teacher support
Support in studies

no data

Not specified
Digital teaching elements

no data

Not specified
Courses offered
Study organisation
Transition to Master's studies
Overall study situation
Return rate of the questionnaires

19

Environmental Civil Engineering

Facts

Total number of students at the department

150

Number of master degree students (w/o teacher qualification)

no data

Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses

Teacher support
Support in studies

no data

Not specified
Courses offered
Study organisation
Exam organisation
Digital teaching elements
Offers for career orientation
Support during practical semester

no data

Not specified
Rooms
Library
IT-infrastructure
Overall study situation

no data

Not specified
Return rate of the questionnaires

22

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Acronyms

(S) = Students' judgements

(F) = Facts

(P) = Professors' judgements

CE = Civil Engineering

EnvCE = Environmental Civil Engineering

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Value in points

Euro

Thousand Euro

Last Update 2022: Data collected by the CHE Center for Higher Education
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