Civil Engineering

This is about the science behind one of man's oldest needs: building. In four semesters of basic studies, everything revolves around the essential tasks of civil engineering: planning, design, calculation and construction.

This is where you will discover such exciting topics as the new construction and conversion of buildings, structures and facilities, their specialist and static-constructive processing, construction calculation, project and construction management, planning of urban infrastructure and hydraulic engineering. You then decide on an area of specialisation:

• Structural engineering
• Water and traffic engineering

Your studies will be rounded off by a practical semester as an engineering assistant at a construction company, an engineering office or an authority, possibly abroad.

Your career opportunities are as diverse as the degree programme itself. Depending on the focus of your degree programme, you will be able to play a responsible role in implementing all construction, infrastructure and environmental protection measures. Your potential employers are also many and varied:

• engineering firms
• building contractors
• the public sector
• national railways (Deutsche Bahn)
• housing associations

At present, multiple vacancies are available to each civil engineer. So after graduation, you will not only have job security, but also plenty of choice.

Perhaps you’ll decide to stay at HAWK for your next step – because your Bachelor’s degree opens the door to your second academic qualification: the consecutive Master’s programme.

Not least the close cooperation with other study programmes, such as architecture, wood engineering or restoration as well as other faculties and universities abroad.

In addition, there are opportunities to apply the skills and competences you have acquired in the practical semester, in applied research in laboratories and workshops and in international workshops and excursions.

We also attach great importance to the fact that you as a student can play an active role in shaping and further developing the study programme by being actively involved in committee work.