From September 29 to October 2, 2026, doctoral students and members of the Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 1683 “Modular Reuse” gathered in Meschede for the first Autumn School of the project.

Bridges can develop dangerous internal damage long before any signs of it are visible on the outside. Researchers at the Chair of Structural Engineering are working on new methods to detect such changes at an early stage.

Today, the coordination team of the Master's programs Computational Engineering and Subsurface Engineering welcomed around 50 international students to our faculty.

From a research project to a multi-award-winning startup: Dr.-Ing. Phillip Schönfelder and Benedikt Faltin, members of the Department of Computing in Engineering, founded the company blixdata together with Nick Schlichting. Using artificial intelligence (AI) developed in-house, the startup converts scans of construction plans into digital, editable 3D models in a matter of seconds.