Environmental Engineering

About this programme

The Bachelor’s Programme “Umweltingenieurwesen” (hereafter: Environmental Engineering) provides the toolbox to address the key challenges of our time. You will learn not only to identify complex problems at the interface of people, the environment, and technology, but also to solve them. The programme encourages you to think beyond traditional boundaries: we promote interdisciplinary thinking so that ecological and technological questions can be answered in a holistic way. The foundation for this approach lies in the natural sciences and engineering. This is not “civil engineering light,” but deep science. Students use mathematics, mechanics, chemistry, and biology to decode the processes and interconnections of our environment. You will learn to collect precise data directly from nature using state-of-the-art measurement technology—from the dynamics of water bodies to chemical air quality analysis. Through programming, modeling, and, for example, remote sensing, this data is transformed into knowledge. This makes it possible to develop digital twins of environmental systems in order to simulate climate impacts or the energy networks of the future. There is no selection procedure for the Bachelor's degree programme in Environmental Engineering. Instead, before being admitted, you must engage with the contents of the programme as part of the so-called Study Preparation and Reflection Phase (Programme-PRe-Phase). The Environmental Engineering programme is designed for anyone who not only wants to understand engineering and the natural sciences, but also to apply them purpos