Environmental engineering and modeling
Technical expertise, team-orientation, management strength and international planning competence: as an environmental engineer with a master's degree, you will handle challenging tasks in a project management position. You will implement a variety of models and simulation tools in order to better understand environmental processes. The national and international labor market awaits you!
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A Degree Program with a Future
You can also complete this degree program building on a degree program in an adjacent field related to the environment or engineering.
- Bachelor’s degree program with 210 CR
- Average grade of at least 2.5
- German language level: C1
1. Semester
- Environmental and planning law
- Mathematics III
- Informatics methods for engineers
- Industrial water management (StR water and circular economy)
- Heat pumps and refrigeration systems (StR Geb. + Energy)
- Simulation of groundwater flows (StR water and circular economy)
2. Semester
- Project management
- Project work
- 2 elective subjects from the international planning tasks catalog
- 1 elective subject from the engineering catalog
- 1 elective subject from the energy catalog
- 1 elective subject from the modeling catalog
3. Semester
- Master thesis
Fields of study
- Water and the circular economy
- Buildings and energy
As a master of Environmental engineering and modeling, you will have wide-ranging expertise:
- Understanding for modeling environmental technology processes
- Use and limits of simulation models
- Assessment of international planning tasks
- Training capacity for teamwork and leadership of interdisciplinary working groups
- Project planning and management
- Collaboration on research projects
As a graduate of our master's degree program, a wide range of professional opportunities will be available to you:
- Team and project management positions
- Management positions in engineering
- Working abroad
- Working as a planning engineer in engineering firms
- Working in environmental administration
- Public and private supply and disposal companies
- Advising and consulting
We cooperate with different regional companies and institutions, such as
- Waste water disposal and purification (Paderborn municipal waterworks)
- Institute for Automation and Communication (ifak)
- Emschergenossenschaft and Lippeverband
- TIA Technologies for industrial waste water treatment
- Emscher Lippe water engineering
Benefit from our cooperative projects in the framework of various Erasmus programs in the areas of:
- Digitalization of water industry by innovative graduate water education
- Climate change adapted water management
- Curricula innovation in climate-smart urban development based on green and energy efficiency with the nonacademic sector
- Vocational Training Diploma on Electrical and Hybrid Vehicles
- Phosphorous elimination and recovery
- Pollution load simulation of AFS63 in rainwater
- wasserplus OWL cooperative platform
... the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations
- directly to good health and well-being
- directly to quality education
- directly to clean water and sanitation
- directly to affordable and clean energy
- directly to sustainable cities and communities
- directly to climate action
- directly to life below water
Studying at Sustainable Campus Höxter
Sustainable studying in Höxter
At the Höxter campus, much of the focus is on the environment, sustainability, and digitalization—for example, in the environmental engineering and landscape architecture degree programs and in the field of precision farming. Projects such as the 2023 State Garden Show demonstrate that sustainability can be exciting, practical, and innovative. This is ensured by modern laboratories, our own botanical garden, and close cooperation with local authorities and companies.
Important note: Future relocation of degree programs from the Höxter campus
The Sustainable Campus Höxter will remain one of the three locations of the TH OWL. Enrollment in the degree programs offered there will still be possible for the 2025/2026 winter semester. In the future, these will be relocated to the Creative Campus Detmold or the Innovation Campus Lemgo. Planning for this is underway; a concrete timetable will be announced in the course of 2025. TH OWL will ensure that all students are informed several months in advance and can continue to study and complete their programs without disruption.
Information
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- Semester dues
- FAQ about application and enrollment
- Study plan
- Manual of course modules
Only the details of the currently valid examination regulations of the degree program as published in the promulgation gazette are authoritative and legally binding. You can find the announcement sheets here.
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Still unanswered questions?
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Phone: +49 5261 702 2534
E-mail: studierendenservice(at)th-owl.de
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