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CHE University Ranking

Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department

Fakultät für Bau- und Umweltingenieurwissenschaften

Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Fakultät für Bau- und Umweltingenieurwissenschaften
Universitätsstraße 150
D-44780 Bochum
Telephone: +49 234 322-6124
https://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/de
Uni Bochum
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Basic information

Teaching staff at the department

101

Percentage of teaching by practitioners

5.0%

Percentage of teaching by practitioners, master's

5.0%

Teaching in core subjects

  • Basics (e.g., maths): 18.8%
  • Construction Engineering: 28.7%
  • Water Management: 7.9%
  • Ressource Management: 4%
  • Transport Systems, Urban and Regional planning: 12.9%
  • Construction Management: 6.9%
  • Other fields: 20.8%

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

7.9%

Master theses in cooperation with work environment

21.5%

Share of professors with work experience

53.0%

Professors with own engineering company

37.0%

Research

Third party funds per academic

89,700 €

Doctorates per professor

0.8

Further information provided by the department

Special features regarding teaching

The Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering offers a broad range of training in Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering and Computational Engineering. Tutorials and small-group exercises promote access to course content and facilitate intensive supervision of students. Building on the convey of well-grounded fundamentals, the teaching staff’s superb links to professionals in the field mean application-focussed training. The labs and workshops illustrate the acquired theoretical skills as part of various practicals.

Special features regarding the international orientation

The faculty has a broad network of research institutions and industry partners around the world. There are structured programmes for the promotion of international mobility of students and young researchers as part of joint research projects. Students are given intensive support in the planning of periods abroad and practicals (e.g. Erasmus). The international English-language degree course "Computational Engineering" with a sister course at the Vietnamese-German-University (VGU) is in great demand worldwide.

Special features regarding the equipment

The department has excellent IT equipment for use in teaching, including five computer pools with 150 PCs and extensive software packages as well as an extensively equipped virtual reality laboratory (VR lab) where methods and concepts for digital inspection of buildings and planning-oriented tools are created. All technical test facilities in the modern test hall, extensive laboratory facilities and the faculty's own boundary layer wind tunnel are used in teaching.

Special features regarding research activities

In addition to processing of numerous individual support projects, the faculty is involved in several research associations. With a focus on the computer-oriented methods in tunnel construction, for example, the Collaborative Research Centre 837 "Interaction Modeling in Mechanized Tunneling" funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) enables students to pursue a course of study that is closely related to research, as part of coursework and final theses. The same is also true for the two Research Units based in the field of material testing (Research Unit 1498 "AKR") and mechanics (Research Unit 797 "Microplast").

Support for founders

Together with the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration and the two other engineering faculties, the faculty hosts the "Fit für die Gründung" start-up series of events for doctoral students. Workshops, panel discussions and other formats provide information with regard to business start-ups and an opportunity to network with others. The Worldfactory offers free advice, seminars, premises and a tasting workshop taster workshop. In addition, engineering students have the opportunity to attend courses on business start-ups in the faculty of economics.

Other special features

There are numerous individually tailored projects on offer to increase the proportion of female students and women in the academic fields. These include project workshops for female school pupils, Girls Day and the ‘CrossING’ careers event for graduates, which was awarded Ruhr University Bochum’s Lore-Agnes Prize in 2015. Intensive support is provided for students in the initial study phase.

Further information on research activities

Website of the Student Council

Civil Engineering

Facts

Total number of students at the department

1,390

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

470

Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses

Teacher support
Support in studies
Courses offered
Study organisation
Exam organisation

no data

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Digital teaching elements

no data

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Research orientation
Offers for career orientation
Rooms
Library
IT-infrastructure
Overall study situation

no data

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Return rate of the questionnaires

22

Students' assessments on consecutive master's degree courses

Teacher support
Support in studies
Digital teaching elements
Courses offered
Study organisation
Transition to Master's studies
Research orientation
Overall study situation
Return rate of the questionnaires

31

Environmental Civil Engineering

Facts

Total number of students at the department

590

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

180

Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses

Teacher support
Support in studies
Courses offered
Study organisation
Exam organisation
Digital teaching elements

no data

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Research orientation

no data

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Offers for career orientation

no data

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Rooms

no data

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Library

no data

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IT-infrastructure
Overall study situation
Return rate of the questionnaires

16

Students' assessments on consecutive master's degree courses

Teacher support

no data

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Support in studies

no data

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Digital teaching elements

no data

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Courses offered
Study organisation
Transition to Master's studies

no data

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Research orientation

no data

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Overall study situation

no data

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Return rate of the questionnaires

15

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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

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