As an environmental engineer, you will ensure environmental compatibility, social acceptance and international competitiveness in the design, construction and operation of technical facilities. The degree programme is therefore based on the so-called "three pillars of sustainability", namely ecology, economy and social aspects, whereby your studies will focus on projects to protect the environment, the sustainable use of resources, the recycling of residual materials and the closing of material cycles. As an environmental engineer, you should therefore have a very broad basic knowledge, which we are very happy to impart to you in our Bachelor's degree programme in Environmental Engineering.

The first four semesters of the 7-semester Bachelor's degree programme in Environmental Engineering are designed in such a way that you can quickly familiarise yourself with new tasks with varying requirements based on a very comprehensive basic education (mathematical, scientific and engineering). You will not only familiarise yourself with these scientific and engineering fundamentals, but also learn to understand them. This small but subtle difference is crucial for you to be able to transfer and apply your knowledge to new challenges later on and to assess your ideas and the ideas of others in terms of their usefulness and feasibility.

From the fourth semester onwards, you will increasingly focus on the fundamentals of environmental engineering. This means that from the fourth semester onwards, the Bachelor's degree programme in Environmental Engineering differs significantly from the other degree programmes offered at our faculty. In Environmental Engineering, you will then study the following modules (courses), which you will not get in the other Bachelor's degree programmes:

"Introduction to the Principles of Biology and Ecology"
"Fundamentals of Biochemistry and Microbiology"
"Environmental Process Engineering"

The catalogue of compulsory elective modules is also tailored to environmental engineering with topics from recycling, waste management and energy management.

Of course, you can develop according to your interests by choosing your coursework topic, the topic of your Bachelor's thesis and by choosing a completely free elective module and by choosing a few modules from a module catalogue.

Please note that there is hardly any time for in-depth or specific environmental engineering content in a 7-semester Bachelor's degree programme. The Bachelor's programme therefore hardly goes beyond the broad basics of environmental engineering. From the summer semester of 2024, we will therefore be offering an advanced 3-semester Master's degree programme in Environmental Engineering, in which you can acquire comprehensive and more specialised knowledge (with options to choose from according to your interests) after completing your Bachelor's degree.

What else needs to be said:

The Bachelor's degree programme in Environmental Engineering is integrated into the Engineering Bachelor's degree programme at our university. You will receive a Bachelor's certificate for Environmental Engineering, not for Engineering. This combines several degree programmes, which are very similar in the first three to four semesters, into one Bachelor's degree programme. If you would like to find out more, please give us a call.

When we developed the Bachelor's degree programme in Engineering together with dedicated students at our faculty in 2020, the following was very important to us in terms of studyability:

• relatively few exams per examination period: you don't have to rush from exam to exam! You have the time and opportunity to really get to grips with the material and learn it for your long-term memory.
• Early contact (from the second semester) with modules with engineering applications and reference to current research work: This keeps your motivation for the engineering degree programme at a high level even during the otherwise long "dry spell" of basic science and engineering training (first four semesters).
• Individual options by choosing compulsory elective modules from a predefined module catalogue and by choosing free elective modules: You can develop flexibly according to your engineering interests and have the opportunity to think outside the box.
• You will gain practical and research experience in the basic internship, during two specialist excursions, a student research project, a 14-week specialist internship and a Bachelor's thesis.
• An education in the specialised language of English and introductory business administration will also provide you with the basis for success in an international environment.

We, the study committee, are convinced that with the Bachelor's degree programme, we are providing a flexible yet rigorous undergraduate degree programme that will prepare you excellently for future job profiles in further engineering degree programmes, in industry, business and science, taking your interests into account.

We will be happy to support you. If you have any questions about the programme, please give us a call.