Civil and Environmental Engineering (Infrastructure) M.Sc.

Overview

Degree	Master of Science
Start of study	Summer semester
Application period Summer semester	15 December until 15 January
Standard period of study	3 semesters
Credits	90
Accredited	Yes. Accredited by the ACQUIN Accreditation, Certification and Quality Assurance Institute and notified to the European Union in 2018.
Admission restricted	Yes
Admission requirements	Average grade of at least 2.5 in the Bachelor's or Diploma degree (ECTS - Grade A-C) At least 210 ECTS credits Further admission requirements
Language of instruction	German
Faculty/institution	School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Integrated stay abroad	Optional

After successfully completing your bachelor's degree, you are aiming for a challenging job or a management position in a dynamically growing industry of the future. The qualified master's degree program in Construction and Environment (Infrastructure) at the Bremen University of Applied Sciences increases your chances of quickly entering responsible management positions with higher
earning potential. Especially for qualified, autonomous activities in the field of research and development, our master's degree can be an advantageous ticket to a professional career with diverse development prospects. The three-semester master's degree program in Construction and Environment (Infrastructure) M. Sc. prepares you in an interdisciplinary and practical manner
for the working world in expanding and innovative fields of activity.

In a total of three semesters of project-oriented study, the Master's program in Civil Engineering and the Environment will provide you with comprehensive, detailed and specialized technical knowledge, enabling you to work independently on construction or environmental engineering issues in infrastructure projects of complex magnitude in a responsible, subject-specific and interdisciplinary manner.In the program, you can choose two subject specializations in the form of subject differentiation.

If you choose the subject differentiation Civil Engineering, your focus will be in particular on structural planning for complex infrastructure projects, weighing up complex relationships between the material constructions and the building behavior in context and designing object plans for infrastructure measures.

If you choose the subject differentiation environmental engineering, you will learn in particular process-related environmental engineering planning for complex infrastructural projects and to develop concepts for the optimization of environmental engineering plants and processes.

In detail, the following topics are covered:

    Spatial planning and its legal and planning bases

    Planning hierarchies and responsibilities of federal, state and local authorities

    Status quo and development of the different energy systems (sectoral structures and interfaces between heat, electricity and gas grids, e.g. power-to-gas)

    Grid development planning E-grids (onshore and offshore)

    Basics of the use of renewable energies with special infrastructural requirements, e.g. offshore wind energy / ocean energy
Mathematical predictions, process and procedure visualizations as well as parameter studies and data interpretation are carried out on selected models from civil engineering, environmental or energy technology. In detail, the following aspects from the following topics are treated:

    models of mechanical systems from civil engineering, energy and process engineering

    procedural and object-oriented programming languages, algorithms and numerics (C++/Fortran/Matlab)

    numerical methods for the solution of differential equations, data interpolation, balancing and optimization

    Analytical methods for the solution of simple differential equations

    Parameter estimation methods for adaptive control

    Measurement-based structural analysis

    Similarity mechanics
In the module, the theoretical fundamentals of the following topics are developed, explained using practical construction examples and deepened using calculation examples.

Design and calculation of hydraulic engineering structures such as

    dikes,

    dams,

    locks and weir structures as well as

    harbor and quay structures

with special requirements on subsoil and stability under consideration of

    Support systems with columns and geogrid reinforcement

    Soil-structure interaction (bedding models)

    Shear laws

    Material laws of soil mechanics

    Subsurface hydraulics

    Fluid forces in soil

    Earth pressure and earth resistance in flowing groundwater

    hydraulic ground failure and hydraulic bottom failure

    buoyancy problems

    Limits of deterministic models of geotechnics
The module serves the in-depth teaching of selected topics, in particular scientifically oriented special procedures, which are also to be related to structural design or structural analysis of infrastructure structures:

Solid construction: special requirements according to Eurocode 2; application of the finite element method in reinforced concrete construction, if necessary also non-linear methods; internal member models for discontinuity areas; design for fire ("hot design" e.g. for tunnel structures); special structures in prestressed concrete construction, e.g. for bridges and liquid containers (e.g. for water supply and disposal) as well as for towers of wind energy plants; optionally in the further: Calculation and design of shallow foundations of infrastructure buildings; structural design in existing structures

Steel construction: calculation methods of braced and unbraced buckling fields incl. application of numerical program systems; shell stability with examples from wind energy; dynamically loaded chimneys and masts based on the single-mass oscillator with verifications of the load-bearing capacity and fatigue strength; composite structures for infrastructure buildings incl. structural fire protection

The specific interrelationships as well as the presentation of methods are on the one hand fundamentally theoretical and on the other hand accompanied by numerous application-oriented examples from solid construction and steel construction.
In the module, the theoretical fundamentals of the following topics are developed, explained using practical construction examples and deepened using calculation examples:

Calculation, design and construction of traffic infrastructure structures such as

    access roads and connecting roads within and outside the city as well as

    rail transport structures

with geotechnical consideration/dimensioning of foundation engineering specifications with regard to subsoil and stability, taking into account

    subsoil expertise

    Excavation pits as complex earth static systems

    slope and terrain failure

    Diaphragm walls and narrow walls

    Construction on subsoil with low bearing capacity

    Preloading and backfill methods
The module provides advanced knowledge from water and wastewater management in the context of infrastructure measures. The following aspects are dealt with in detail:

    Basics and boundary conditions of a present complex water or wastewater technical project

    Analysis of water or wastewater engineering issues with the aim of developing an economic solution concept

    Modeling of treatment processes based on balance equations

    Selection of technically and economically optimal processes by comparing the advantages and disadvantages for the concept at hand

    Economically optimal choice of plant components to be considered for these processes

    Dimensioning of these plant components by application of rules and/or balance equations

    Presentation of the solution concept found in the form of complex basic and process flow diagrams

    Selection of MSR technology required for technically and economically optimal operation

    Dimensioning of piping and valves and their representation in the form of R+I flow diagrams

    Estimation of the investment and operating costs of the solution concept found

    Comparison of economic efficiency on the basis of annual costs
Specifically, the following topics will be addressed:

    Identification and evaluation of usable biomass sources: Main characteristics, accumulation and processing.

    Metabolism and growth of microorganisms as a basis for the conversion performance of microorganisms

    Laboratory methods for testing the conversion potential of different substrates

    Optimization of pure or mixed cultures and processing steps in biotechnical processes

    Microorganisms and enzymes in environmental protection, e.g. in paper, textile and plastics production

    Energy from biomass: biogas, hydrogen, ethanol

    Biorefineries: Possibilities of an integrated material-energetic utilization of biomass
The module serves to teach selected topics on resource efficiency, especially in connection with infrastructure systems and energy systems.
In detail, the following aspects are covered:

    Material and energy flow analysis: procedures, qualitative and quantitative description, evaluation parameters, mathematical descriptions, analysis of process chains incl. use of data processing tools (e.g. UMBERTO®)

    Collection, intermediate storage and transport of waste

    Design and calculation of selected processes, such as recycling of household waste, urban mining, construction waste recycling, thermal waste treatment

The module serves to teach selected topics for the preparation and support of the project modules in the areas of construction, environment and energy.
In detail, the following aspects are covered:

    Plant and construction-related building law, planning law, public procurement law, environmental law, plant law, energy law

    Life cycle assessment, resource efficiency

    Management systems

    Process and life-cycle related cost accounting, investment planning
In detail, the following topics will be covered:

    Scientific research based on original literature, databases, patents or market situation related to a call for proposals, which is carried out by the lecturers.

    Formulation of a scientific hypothesis or a development goal and derivation of a technical-scientific objective.

    Independent preparation of a technical-scientific project proposal (feasibility and preliminary studies)

    Preparation of a development or research proposal incl. creation of a work, time and cost plan, selection of suitable methods for project processing

    Methods for project monitoring, revision and concretization of a work, time and cost plan.
The content of the courses is related to the specific project (to strengthen technical competence) and methods (to strengthen methodological competence).

In addition, techniques for the division of labor are taught and support for coordination in the work group is provided.

The following topics will be dealt with in detail:

    Relevant problems from the thematic field of sustainable construction, energy and environmental systems (topic assignment)

    Design of the scientific work "Master thesis

    Literature acquisition and evaluation

    Time management

    Presentation and discussion of work results

In the middle of the semester, each master student arranges a date by giving a presentation on his/her topic and represents his/her approaches, concepts, proposed solutions in the discussion with the other students and the university lecturers.
For the master thesis itself applies:

    Self-study with scientific literature work, writing up of the thesis.

Technical Facilities

For your practical study projects, the IT infrastructure and the research-strong laboratories of the faculty offer you optimal working conditions and provide an insight into current research projects. The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering provides you with the Detlef Hegemann Digital Platform, a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), which you can access via the desktop computers in the PC pool rooms or via your notebook. Virtually from anywhere you can view data or use complex software that would not run on your own hardware.

All learning rooms are equipped with streaming-capable media, so that presence and home learning can be linked. With the filling of the professorships for digital planning and construction, the establishment and integration of a BIM/GIS laboratory in teaching and research is beginning. In the future, digital manufacturing processes will be developed in a prototype workshop using a robot system, which will implement technical and content interfaces via Building Information Modeling (BIM).

With the funding of 240,000 euros until 2024, the Detlef Hegemann Foundation supports the expansion of the forward-looking digitization of the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Environment in the coming years.

In the BIM/GIS lab, students will overlay their digital building object data with spatial infrastructure data and gain a holistic view of digital building designs.

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For your practical training and your personal study projects, the laboratories for geotechnics, experimental statics, building materials technology, transportation, hydromechanics, GIS and BIM offer you optimal working conditions and provide an insight into current research projects. In the laboratory for building materials technology, you will work in a practical manner on the properties, production and processing of materials used in the construction industry as the basis for construction-oriented and sustainable material selection.

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In the Experimental Statics Laboratory, air-conditioned workshop and laboratory workstations are available for you to carry out load-bearing tests with different materials. In laboratory units, the theoretical subject content is examined in practice with the aid of non-destructive testing methods, in the micro-concrete laboratory, on hydraulic-mechanical testing devices and the load frame for bearing load tests.

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Geotechnics is a constructive field of civil engineering and stands as a generic term for all civil engineering in and on the subsoil and with the soils. The geotechnical engineering laboratory has a complete range of state-of-the-art equipment for standardized and special soil mechanical investigations. Equipment for static and dynamic plate load tests, a large shear frame, a photometer for water analysis and a test rig for compression and shear tests are to be emphasized.
The Laboratory of Hydraulic Engineering has a measuring boat and mobile measuring equipment for hydrological in-situ
investigations for the recording of currents in flowing waters. In cooperation with the THW-Bundesschule Hoya, tests can be carried out on a single-dam test dike. Furthermore, experimental equipment for hydraulic model tests as well as hardware and software for numerical 2-D and 3-D modeling of flow, swell and sediment transport processes are available.
and sediment transport processes.

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The laboratory for traffic and urban planning deals with the basics of traffic science for engineers such as road and railroad construction and operation, airport conception and planning, connections from settlement history to planning law for civil engineers, but also socially important areas such as barrier-free construction in public space, local and long-distance mobility in the context of the city, traffic calming alternatives," car-free city" with effects and implementation, alternative public transport services through urban cable cars.

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