Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department
Fachbereich 3 - Bauingenieurwesen
Fachhochschule Potsdam
Fachbereich 3 - Bauingenieurwesen
Kiepenheuerallee 5
D-14469 Potsdam
Telephone: +49 331 580-1300
https://www.fh-potsdam.de
FH Potsdam
Department on the internet
Kiepenheuerallee 5
D-14469 Potsdam
Telephone: +49 331 580-1300
https://www.fh-potsdam.de
FH Potsdam
Department on the internet
Degree courses with details
- Civil Engineering (B.Eng.)
- Civil Engineering (B.Eng., cooperate education)
- Infrastructure Systems (B.Eng.)
- Infrastructure Systems (B.Eng., cooperate education)
- Community Water Management (B.Eng., cooperate education)
- Building and Conservation (M.Eng.)
- Master’s Civil Engineering – Facility Maintenance and New Construction in Civil Engineering and Construction (M.Sc.)
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Basic information
- Teaching staff at the department
no data
Cooperative Education
- Students in cooperative education
200
Support during the study entry phase
- Total score for support in the study entry phase
11/16 points
International orientation
- Outgoing students
no data
Job market- and career-orientation
- Percentage of teaching by practitioners
26.0%
- Percentage of teaching by practitioners, master's
35.0%
- Bachelor theses in cooperation with work environment
69.1%
- Master theses in cooperation with work environment
73.0%
Research
- Cooperative doctoral degrees (in three years)
no data
- Third party funds per professor
50,900 €
Further information provided by the department
Special features regarding teaching in the bachelor's degree programme
Interdisciplinary teaching formats such as the Flex modules and the Interflex programme (strengthening the disciplines and promoting individual initiative); Collaborations and interdisciplinary working procedures in teaching and research; Teaching of knowledge and skills on specialist software required in practice
Special features regarding teaching in the master's programmes
Interdisciplinary teaching formats such as the Flex modules and the Interflex programme (strengthening the disciplines and promoting individual initiative); Collaborations and interdisciplinary working procedures in teaching and research; Teaching of knowledge and skills on specialist software required in practice
Special features regarding the international orientation
Regular exchange with visiting scientists from Uzbekistan at university level (delegations to both Germany and Uzbekistan)
Special features regarding the equipment
Laboratories and workshops (e.g. construction laboratory for structural civil engineering, building materials laboratory, laboratory for foundation engineering and soil mechanics, hydraulic engineering laboratory, asphalt laboratory) with equipment such as: Test hall, test rooms, climatic chambers, test frames, testing machines, mobile testing equipment, field and laboratory equipment for determining soil characteristics, flow channels, chemical and biochemical analysis equipment; Library stock (partly together with the CITY | CONSTRUCTION | CULTURE Department): about 25,000; 35,000 printed media and 4,000 e-books; Purchase of e-media as national licences; In addition, subject-specific technical regulations
Special features regarding research and development
Research projects in the profile line of Potsdam University of Applied Sciences (FHP) "Design-Build-Maintain", among others; InNoWest (joint sustainability project); PHOTECH; Ki;learn (AI Learn) – new media in structural civil engineering; WIR!-Bündnis GOLEHM (initiative for clay construction); https://www.fh-potsdam.de/hochschule-karriere/profil/profillinie-gebauter-raum-entwerfen-bauen-erhalten
Other special features
Establishment and impact of the Institute for Building Research and Building Conservation (IBB) to promote sustainability in the construction sector, including Symposium 2024 https://www.fh-potsdam.de/hochschule-karriere/organisation/wissenschaftliche-einrichtungen/institut-bauforschung-und-bauerhaltung-ibb; Creation and regular updating of the gender equality concept and gender equality report of Potsdam University of Applied Sciences (FHP)
Further information on research activities
Information on access restrictions
Website of the Student Council
online-application
Civil Engineering
Facts
- Total number of students at the department
460
- Number of master degree students (w/o teacher qualification)
90
Teaching in core subjects
- Basics: 34.3%
- Constructive engineering: 38.4%
- Water Management: 6.1%
- Ressource Management: 1.5%
- Transport Systems, Urban and Regional planning: 6.1%
- Construction Management: 13.6%
Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses
- Learning and working spaces
- Teacher support
- Support in studies
- Courses offered
- Study organisation
- Exam organisation
- Digital learning
- Laboratory internships
- Excursions
- Introduction to scientific work
- Offers for career orientation
no data
- Support during practical semester
no data
- Practical orientation in teaching
- Support for stays abroad
no data
- Rooms
- Library
- IT-infrastructure
- Overall study situation
- Return rate of the questionnaires
45
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Acronyms
(S) = Students' judgements
(F) = Facts
(P) = Professors' judgements
CE = Civil Engineering
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Last Update 2025: Data collected by the CHE Center for Higher Education