Cultural engineering and water management
The study Environmental Engineering (KTWW) is at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences offered (BOKU). There are comparable courses in German-speaking countries in Germany at the University of Rostock (course in national culture and environmental protection ) and at the Swiss ETH Zurich (master's course in environmental engineering ).
The course was introduced in the form of a three-year course in the academic year 1883/84 after the courses in agriculture (1872/73) and forestry (1875) as the third course of study at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences. Since the reform of the study system at BOKU in 2003/2004, cultural engineering and water management has been offered as a bachelor's and master's degree . Graduates of the master’s degree can also acquire a doctorate at BOKU . The recognition of courses is based on the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS). The so-called diploma courses offered until 2004 can no longer be started since the reform, they can only be completed.
Content
The cultural engineering and water management course offers students teaching content in the fields of knowledge of applied natural sciences and their engineering applications. The aim of the courses is to convey a comprehensive understanding of the sustainable use of resources in the context of planning, designing, building and maintaining .
Bachelor's degree in cultural engineering and water management
The bachelor's degree is set at six semesters and 147 semester hours. A mandatory internship totaling five weeks is planned as part of the course. This practice can be acquired worldwide. However, it must be about cultural technology-specific activities in administration, industry and commerce, in engineering offices or civil engineers , at university institutes or research institutions or in development aid projects . In addition, the students have to write an interdisciplinary thesis (bachelor thesis), which must be assigned to at least two courses. The graduates receive the academic degree Bachelor of Science (abbreviated: BSc ).
Master's degree in cultural engineering and water management
The master’s course comprises four semesters with 57 semester hours. The prerequisite for admission to the KTWW master’s degree is the completion of the KTWW bachelor’s degree or another bachelor’s degree in which basic, equivalent knowledge of the relevant core subjects was imparted. No practical training is required in the master’s program, but it is recommended. In addition, the students must take examinations for foreign language courses amounting to at least 10 ECTS and write a master's thesis . The final defensio of the master's thesis is held orally and before a committee . After completing the degree, the academic degree of Diplom-Ingenieurin or Diplom-Ingenieur (abbreviated: Dipl.-Ing. Or DI ) is awarded.
Form of teaching
The students develop practice projects and present their results. Essential content is learned in practical exercises such as working with surveying equipment in the field and on excursions.
The graduates in professional practice
Graduates (diploma engineers) of the diploma course for cultural engineering and water management offered until 2002/2003 can be found in a broad professional field. The classic field of activity of cultural technicians includes measures to improve the structure of agriculturally used land such as water supply , sewer systems or agricultural road construction . Due to the close relationship between the degree program and civil engineering and the limited need for specialists in “classical cultural engineering ”, a large number of cultural engineers are active in the construction industry.
Cultural technicians work in public administration , in teaching at universities , higher technical institutes and universities of applied sciences , as part of professional training at institutions such as WIFI and BFI , in construction companies , in the manufacturing industry or in planning and monitoring for civil engineers, technical offices or planning builders (see also builders ).
With appropriate practice and after passing the necessary exams before the respective examination committees , civil engineering engineers can work independently as master builders , civil engineers (as engineering consultants for cultural engineering and water management) or with a technical office for cultural engineering and water management .
Since the teaching content of the bachelor's degree in connection with a subsequent master's degree largely coincides with the contents of the earlier diploma degree, engineers in cultural engineering and water management will continue to be employed in the fields mentioned. For graduates of a bachelor's degree without a further master's degree, there is currently no experience in Austria with regard to choosing a career.
Courses for the bachelor's degree
Excerpts: mathematics , statistics , chemistry , physics , geology , soil science , botany , meteorology , CAD , mechanics , structural analysis , hydraulics , hydrology , soil physics , hydrology , surveying , legal bases , business administration , economics , construction , project management , spatial planning , transport planning , urban water management , rural Development , construction , construction , waste management , transport planning , water management planning , water conservancy , river basin management , water protection , Hydrobiology , water ecology , soil mechanics , geotechnics .
Master’s courses
On the one hand, the courses offered from the bachelor's degree are further deepened. New teaching contents include: hydrodynamics , ecology , corporate governance , environmental law , water law , groundwater management , pipeline construction , irrigated agriculture , Rural Water , river engineering , earthworks and foundation engineering , rock engineering , civil engineering , building physics , railways , roads , public transport .
swell
- University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences: Curriculum for the bachelor's degree in cultural engineering and water management , Vienna 2006.
- University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences: Study plan for a master’s degree in cultural engineering and water management , Vienna 2006.
- University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences: Curriculum for a master’s degree in cultural engineering and water management , Vienna 2015.
- University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences: Curriculum for the PhD program in Natural Resources and Life Sciences , Vienna 2006.
literature
- Helmut Habersack (Ed.): Cultural technology and water management: Environment, technology, society . facultas.wuv, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-7089-1082-6 , p. 312 .