Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Department
Fakultät für Architektur und Bauwesen




General remarks
This department is also featured in the U-Multirank world university rankings.
Civil Engineering
Degree courses with details
Further information provided by the department
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Special features regarding teachingTeaching is characterised by a very strong focus on practical experience. In addition to traditional courses, practical knowledge is also imparted through presentations by in-house and external lecturers, excursions as well as practically oriented project and research work in an interdisciplinary approach. Furthermore the latest e-learning techniques are used such as video conference lectures or online preparation of course material.
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Special features regarding the international orientationTrinational Bachelor's degree course in Civil Engineering; Trinational Master's degree course in Civil Engineering; Double Master's degree programme with Ryerson University in Toronto/Canada; Direct cooperation and student exchange with the University of Waterloo/Canada, University of Surrey/UK and the ESITC Metz; Many final theses as well as research projects in cooperation with foreign higher education institutions (e.g. with the UCLV), Santa Clara, Cuba; INTERREG project for sustainable building with two French and one Swiss partner university.
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Common partner universities for exchangeUniversity of Waterloo/Waterloo (Kanada); University of Surrey/Guildford (Großbritannien); Universidad Central Marta Abreu; de las Villas/Santa Clara (Cuba)
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Special features regarding the equipmentIn terms of technical facilities, all devices are constantly upgraded to keep abreast of the latest developments. All workplaces are computer workstations, each course of study has a computer room. All lecture theatres are equipped with digital projectors and whiteboards. Both students and professors can borrow laptops as well as other technical equipment.
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Special features regarding research and developmentThe faculty offers students numerous opportunities to participate in applied research. Various laboratories such as the Research Centre for Hydraulic Engineering or the Laboratory for Community Water Management. The university's Official Construction Materials Testing Centre (ÖBP) is also active in building materials technology research through its testing, monitoring and certification activities. Additional research projects are also carried out faculty-wide. In addition, there are cooperation agreements with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology; Two completed cooperative doctorates in the years 2015-2017
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Website with further information on research activitieshttps://www.hs-karlsruhe.de/fk-ab/forschung/




(S)-Students' judgements (F)-Facts (P)-Professors' judgements
(CE)= Civil Engineering (IntDiscip)= very interdisciplinary and thus not classified;
As the ranking is done for the whole subject area, for the single "sub-subjects" it can happen that not all rank groups are represented in all criteria.
As the ranking is done for the whole subject area, for the single "sub-subjects" it can happen that not all rank groups are represented in all criteria.
Last update 2019: Data collected by the CHE Center for Higher Education, Germany.
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