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Master of Engineering (M.Eng.)

Structural Engineering and Digital Construction Processes

AI-supported planning, completely 3D printed buildings, robots on the construction site: Digitization is one of the most important topics in the future of the building industry. We are taking on the challenge through a comprehensive model – from design to production. In addition, you will deepen your knowledge of structural engineering in this Master’s degree program.

Your heart beats for...

... Resource-saving construction, Virtual modeling and analysis, Application-related programming, Digital production, Economic efficiency, Practical part, Foreign language: English

A Degree Program with a Future

Admission
  • Bachelor’s or graduate degree
  • German language level: C1

Structure and Contents of the Degree Program

1. Semester

  • Finite Elemente 2
  • Prestressed concrete construction
  • Digital processes and fabrication
  • Sustainability in digital building
  • BIM 2
  • Mandatory elective module

2. Semester

  • Timber engineering 3
  • Computational Mechanics
  • Steel construction 3
  • Composite structures
  • Digital design project
  • Mandatory elective module

3. Semester

  • Master's thesis

Focus area

  • Structural engineering
  • Digital building
Acquired Knowledge and Skills

As a graduate, you will learn about the following topics throughout the entire building process chain, with a special focus on digital aspects

  • developing engineering models, solutions, and concepts,
  • dimensioning buildings and components based on advanced calculations, simulations, and structural engineering verifications
  • generating BIM models and implementing them in practice, including supporting implementation with automated methods
  • developing quality management systems and supporting their implementation
  • integrating all of the above aspects in a consistent digital process chain

Project work provides you with a comprehensive view of practical tasks, promotes interdisciplinary cooperation, and helps you deepen key qualifications.

Job Profiles

As a graduate of our master’s degree program, you will be qualified for research, development, and management positions, in particular in digitally-supported structural engineering. 
You will enjoy career prospects in the following areas:

  • Option to complete a Ph.D. or enter senior civil service by taking the second state examination
  • Management positions in the construction industry, and in either the private or public sector
  • Research and development
Cooperation With Companies

Our department cooperates with numerous regional construction companies as well as with municipalities and state offices.

Research in the Department

The civil engineering department is engaged in intensive application-specific research and development cooperations, particularly with regional companies and institutions, as well as on a national basis. Most theses are completed as part of such cooperations, either directly with a cooperating partner or in a departmental lab.
Research in the department focuses on the areas of geotechnics, solid construction, and municipal water management, as well as digital building.

Our fields of research

As Graduate You Contribute to...

... the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations

  • directly to quality education
  • directly to industry, innovation and infrastructure
  • directly to sustainable cities and communities
  • directly to responsible consumption and production
  • directly to climate action
  • directly to life on land

Studying at Creative Campus Detmold

Our Creative Campus in Detmold

Planning and building in one place. This concept can be found on our Creative Campus. Through both topics, a very special teaching and research location has been created. The internationally renowned Detmold School of Design is located here, as well as the Civil Engineering Department and the Center for Sustainable, Digital Construction, which is currently under construction. Architectural ideas thus cross paths with new thinking in civil engineering, such as sustainable 3D printing. The campus is complemented by media production, which together with the Detmold Academy of Music and the University of Paderborn have created a completely new stage for the transfer between creative science and business in the KreativInstitut.OWL. The campus is also adjacent to the city center, which can thus be reached by foot.

Campus Life

Profile

Degree Course:
Structural Engineering and Digital Construction Processes
Degree:
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.)
Study model:
Full-time
Admission:
Non-restricted
Standard period of study:
3 semester
Start:
Summer semester, Winter semester
Course language:
German
Location:
Creative Campus Detmold
Tuition Fees:
None
Preparatory courses:
no

Application periods:

Germany and EU Countries
Winter Semester: 02.05. – 15.10.
Summer Semester: 17.11. – 15.02.
Currently no application possible

Non-EU Countries
Winter Semester: 01.04. – 31.07.
Summer Semester: 17.11. – 15.01.
Currently no application possible