Due to the broad scope of activities of civil and environmental engineers, which range from the development and use of complex calculation methods to the design of urban space, the faculty's curriculum has a very strong interdisciplinary orientation. This is demonstrated by the faculty's four key areas of specialisation (Construction, Transport, Water, Modelling) and the extensive involvement of other departments (Architecture and Town Planning, Business Administration, Chemistry, Renewable Energies, Automotive and Motor Engineering Geodesy and Geoinformatics, Computer Science).

Three international, consecutive Master's courses (curriculum in English), one international continuing education course. There are exchange programme with Calgary, Cape Town, Gothenburg and cooperation agreements with 30 universities in 15 European countries. Double degree programmes in Water Resources Engineering and Management (WAREM) with Chalmers/Sweden. 20% of all ECTS credits in Master's modules are offered in English.

Three large-scale research establishments: Research Centre for Hydraulic Engineering, Test Centre for Groundwater and Land Reclamation (Vegas), Sewage Treatment Teaching and Research Centre; Porous Media Lab in construction, connection to the material testing institute (performance of material tests and large-format component tests); Chair of Hydraulic System Modelling: part of the Baden-Wuerttemberg Grid Cluster; 2 computer clusters; 2 multimedia labs; transport science lab with model railway system; precision mechanical workshop; rock and soil engineering lab

"Green Engineering Design" vision": Optimisation of technical infrastructure (materials, building, supply and disposal, transport) for a sustainable society; Speaker and member of the Simulation Technology Cluster of Excellence; excellence fields: Lightweight Construction and Adaptive Structures; Resource-Optimised Construction and New Materials; Lifecycle Analysis; Computational MechanicsSimulation Technology; Water and Environment (Water Research Centre Stuttgart); Energy- and Resource-Efficient Building; Mobility and Transport (Universität Stuttgart transport research focus)

Two clusters of excellence in Faculty 2: "Data-Integrated Simulation Science", "Integrative Computer-Based Planning and Building for Architecture": New thinking for the built environment; Diversity and equality (https://www.uni-stuttgart.de/universitaet/profil/diversity-und-gleichstellung/). The Diversity Committee of Faculty 2 is devoting itself to this topic and regularly seeks exchange with other faculties. In addition, the faculty has initiated projects such as poster campaigns and animations to draw attention to discrimination issues.