M.Sc. Resilient Civil Engineering

The highly practice-oriented M.Sc. RCE explicitly takes up the concept of resilience and sustainability for infrastructures and complex building systems and integrates this basic idea holistically into design, construction and planning. A unique combination of study topics from the fields of civil engineering and architecture along with lectures in structural mechanics enables you to formulate comprehensive concepts for a building or infrastructure project ensuring its resilience and improving functionality. In innovative courses such as Green Construction, you will also be introduced to sustainable building designs using upcycled building materials or emission-free and renewable raw materials. In addition, the digitalization in the construction industry is of particular interest during the M.Sc. RCE. Therefore, you will learn the process of Building Information Modelling (BIM) and the use of IoT technologies to increase the efficiency of a construction project. This exclusive fusion of key disciplines provides the qualification and specialization needed to exercise interdisciplinary approaches, methods and procedures in structural engineering and thus addressing the challenges of today’s and tomorrow’s built environment.

The M.Sc. RCE comprises of three semesters of lectures, exercises and practical courses, followed by the fourth and final semester to write your Master's thesis. You will start the first semester with core courses from all topics to ensure a good professional basis. In semester two and three you will either choose a project module in civil engineering or architecture and experience highly practical lectures. Five specific topics from the fields of civil engineering and architecture such as planning, materials or sustainability form a unique curricular throughout the whole program, training you to become an expert in resilient construction.

Check out the detailed module manual for M.Sc. RCE.