December 2019
The Youth Forum is a lecture series for young engineers that takes place as part of the STUVA conference. Young engineers from all fields of tunnel construction and tunnel operation up to the age of 35 may apply for a presentation on new developments in their field. Topics from research as well as from practice are welcome. From the applications about 5 lectures for the lecture series "Youth Forum" are selected in a preliminary decision. The winners of the preliminary decision then have the chance to present their topic at the STUVA conference and to win the STUVA Young Talent Award. The winners of the past years won trips to tunnel construction sites in Dubai, China, Toronto and Doha.
Anyone who is interested to hear an interview with Markus König about the status and future of digitization in engineering studies should switch on Deutschlandfunk on next Monday, 23rd December 2019 between 2:30 and 3:30 p.m.
The company Okeanos, founded by Dr.-Ing. Benjamin Mewes and Dr.-Ing. Henning Oppel, scientific assistant at the Chair of Engineering Hydrology and Water Resources Management, is one of the top 3 companies in the KUER Business Plan Competition, the first start-up competition for the sectors climate, environment, energy efficiency and resource conservation in Germany.
November 2019
Last Friday, 29.11.2019, the Academic Year Celebration took place for the third time in the Audimax, which gave it a particularly setting. Accompanied by the jazzy sounds of the music group "Thomas Klein Trio", Dean Prof. Dr.-Ing. R. Höffer moderated the event and presented the graduates with their certificates.
Last Wednesday, 20.11.2019, 34 pupils from Eastern Europe/Central Asia visited the engineering sciences at the RUB as part of the "Studienbrücke" programme. The laboratory of the Chair of Highway and Road Engineering opened its doors and offered an exciting insight into road construction.
The "Wirtschaftsbetriebe Duisburg" invites all engineering students to go on tour together on Monday, 25.11.2019.
3D models allow the exchange of different trades of a construction project at the virtual planning table. There it is often difficult to find a common language. A project team, including the Chair of Computing in Engineering, is now developing a prototype digital technical concept for the corresponding training of civil engineers.
Two new motorway sections were opened on the A33 and A46 in NRW. "Does this mean a new motorway boom?" asks the science programme WDR 5 Quarks and looks for answers from the expert Prof. Dr.-Ing. Justin Geistefeldt, Head of the Chair of Transport Planning and Management.
Going abroad during your studies - Yes, but how? Many students are thinking about spending a semester or internship in another country. Questions about possible target countries, organisation, costs and recognition will also be answered in the winter semester by GoING Abroad, especially for engineering students.
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Markus König answered the questions of the curious journalists of "Baublatt". When will Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality prevail on construction sites? Can accidents at work be avoided in the future? They addressed these and other questions to the holder of the Chair of Computing in Engineering.
The "Arbeitskreis Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft e.V." invites students of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering to discuss their career prospects with employees of important public authorities. The Career Day will take place on 13 November 2019 in the Science Park in Gelsenkirchen.
For the 11th time, the RUB celebrates the award holders of the Deutschlandstipendium. This year, more than 280 students are supported by this program, 32 of them are students of our faculty.
Within the BIMSWARM research project, the Chair of Computing in Engineering and various project partners are developing a platform for the integration of construction-specific applications, services and content in process chains. From 17.10. to 19.10.2019 the prototype was tested for the first time at the BIMSWARM Hackathon.
Under the motto "Tunnel construction competence in the environment of the Ruhr-University Bochum" the SFB 837 invites to this year's guest lecture series "Challenge Tunnel Construction". On 08.11.2019, members of the SFB 837 and internationally renowned scientists as well as representatives from practice will meet to discuss new developments and hurdles.
The WORLDFACTORY offers with its seminar for students, employees and scientists, who are interested in starting a business, assistance around the topics marketing, bookkeeping, taxes and many more. On 06, 13, 20 and 27 November 2019,you can take part in workshops with suitable speakers from practice in the UFO.
October 2019
In the future, technicians will be able to navigate and be helped by Smart Glasses during maintenance work on site. The chair of Computing in Engineering, chaired by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Markus König, is developing algorithms to make these augmented reality applications feasible.
On Tuesday, 5 November 2019, the project on the subject of "Sustainable Construction & Small-scale Living" will officially enter its next round. Based on the knowledge gained from the lecture series of the previous semester, the working group plans to develop a concept for a sustainable and efficient form of living alongside a team of students and interested parties.
As part of a new DFG project, Dr.-Ing. Francesca Lupi, researcher at the Chair for Wind Engineering and Fluid Mechanics, is investigating the dependence of aeroelastic damping parameters on vibration amplitude.
From 14.10.2019 to 18.10.2019, the MINT.Akademie.Vest and the three engineering science faculties invited pupils from the Recklinghausen district to the MINT research holidays at the RUB.
In a new joint project, the Chair of Computing in Engineering, together with other partners from research and industry, is developing an automatic payment management system for the construction industry.
Dr. Benjamin Mewes and Dr. Henning Oppel from the Chair of Engineering Hydrology and Water Management counter climatic changes within the framework of their joint project "Okeanos" with artificial intelligence.
Children's wondering eyes, busy little hands, here and there an unbelieving "wow": Science can be so exciting. For the first time, the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering opened its laboratory and workshop doors to young researchers – with overwhelming response.
On October 3, 2019, the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering will be inviting the public for the first time to the Mouse Open Day, offering young Mouse fans entertaining insights into everyday engineering life with many exciting opportunities to ask questions, try things out and do them yourself.
September 2019
The winter semester is just around the corner and we look forward to welcoming the new students!
As every year, the faculty, in cooperation with the student council, welcomes the new students on Monday, 7th October 2019 with a comprehensive introductory program.
A preliminary overview of the planned events can be found here:
The Chair of Computing in Engineering invites within the research project BIMSWARM from 17.10.2019 to 19.10.2019 to the first Hackathon. The participants can look forward to prizes worth over 5,000 euros.
From application checks and application photos to business etiquette and professional networking to reports from engineers and companies - the CrossING event offers master students comprehensive preparation for the start of their careers after graduation. The registration phase for CrossING 2019 is now running.
The organisers of women&work, Europe's largest trade fair congress for women, are offering a virtual free "Summer Academy" on Saturday, 21 September 2019. Four webinars will provide insights and further impulses on key competences, value-oriented leadership, successful positioning and personal strengths.
Tandem.MINT offers students of engineering courses the opportunity to test themselves in linguistic and cultural exchange with an international student with advanced knowledge of their target language and thus improve their foreign language skills and intercultural communication skills - in return, they support their tandem partners improving their source language. Students can register until September 15, 2019.
Students can apply for the LabExchange programme until 15.09.2019 to receive funding for their research stays abroad. Students from partner institutions can also apply for support for their research stay at the RUB. Here the application is made by the accepting faculty member. The application deadline is valid for stays beginning between 01.11.2019 and 29.02.2020.
Over 10 years ago, the Computational Engineering course was established at the Vietnamese-German University (VGU) in Ho Chi Minh City. On Tuesday, September 3, 2019, a joint workshop took place at the Ruhr-University Bochum.
For his achievements in teaching as well as his professional and scientific performances, the Ruhr-University Bochum has awarded Roland Leucker the title of honorary professor today. For many years, Professor Leucker has taught the course "Facility Management of Underground Transportation Systems", which teaches students about the equipment, operation and maintenance of tunnel structures.
August 2019
For the retention of microplastics, the facilities of urban water management are the only end-of-pipe solution that can prevent the small particles from entering the water bodies and our nutrient cycle. The 37th Bochum Workshop on Urban Water Management, which will take place at the RUB on 5 September 2019, will provide more insights into the origin, analysis, consequences and cleaning options of microplastics.
July 2019
The Tiny House lecture series is entering its final round. The highlights of the project were two excursions taking place last weekend - on Saturday to the Tiny House joinery Diekmann in Hamm and on Sunday to Vereniging Aardehuis (Earthships Community) in Olst, NL.
On a regular basis, the "Kompetenzzentrum Planen und Bauen" (Competence Center Planning and Building) at the Ruhr-University Bochum, which is embedded in the project "Mittelstand 4.0" (Small and Medium Businesses 4.0)offers afternoon workshops on the topic Building Information Modelling (BIM). On 23rd June 2019 a full day workshop took place including specialist presentations, technology demonstrators and a site visit of the new seminar building of the Hochschule Bochum (Bochum University of Applied Sciences"). The site visit could be realised thanks to the MBN Bau AG.
For two years there has been close cooperation between the Chair of Computing in Engineering and the School of Management Science and Real Estate of the Chinese elite university Chongqing University (CQU). The cooperation includes both teaching and research on topics such as digital construction and logistic processes on the construction site.
As part of the study bridge project 36 prospective high school graduates from abroad, who are preparing to study in Germany, were given an exciting insight into the engineering sciences at the RUB.
Engineering students can register for the Summer School with the topic "Digitization and Entrepreneurship" until July 22, 2019. The Summer School, in which aspects of starting a business are treated in an interdisciplinary way, will take place from 28 August to 3 September 2019.
Between the University Library, the University Administration and the HZO building, campus visitors can now enjoy a newly planted garden area. As part of the "Campus Gardening" project, students and RUB staff worked together to prepare the soil and plant and design the new bed. A mixture of berry bushes, herbs, vegetable plants and flowers, which in particular contribute to the preservation of the insect world, were jointly selected. The newly designed area was finally inaugurated on 11.07.2019.
From 11.06.2019 to 14.06.2019, 27 students of the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering visited exciting large-scale projects near Kassel, Stuttgart and Frankfurt as part of this year's Pentecost field trip and personally experienced the variety of the engineering occupation. The trip was organised by the Chairs of Tunneling and Construction Management, the Chair of Building Materials Technology and the Chair of Statics and Dynamics.
All female professors, employees and students are officially invited to the Women's Assembly of the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering on Wednesday, July 10, 2019 at 11 a.m. in room IC 03-610.
In the course of their project days, 14 pupils of the Hattinger high school "Waldstraße" received an exciting insight into the diverse fields of work of the engineering sciences at the RUB on 8 July and 9 July 2019.
Prof. Dr.-Ing Markus König, Head of the RUB Chair of Computing in Engineering, takes the role of deputy manager of the BIM Center of Competence. The goal of the project is to offer comptrehensive digital services to contracting authorities and performing companies to support them in initiating and coordinating large-scale building projects.
The last days before the summer break - the perfect chance for teachers and pupils to spread their wings and gain some practice insights.Around 20 pupils of a crafts, design and technology course of the Heinrich-von-Kleist School in Bochum visited the faculty to get a glipmse of the many facets the work of a civil engineer has to offer.
As part of the AI Innovation Competition of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, the Chair of Computing in Engineering of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Markus König and its partners of the "AI meets BIM" consortium were convincing with their concept idea and received funding for the development and establishment of AI technologies in the construction industry.
June 2019
The Project Office of the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering offers students comprehensive support with writing their theses.Students who are writing a project or final thesis may apply for a well-equipped computer workstation and, upon request, they may obtain individualized support that is especially tailored to their specific project.
The Wirtschaftsbetriebe Duisburg invites all engineering students to the event "Studis on Tour @ Wirtschaftsbetriebe Duisburg" on June 26, 2019. You will have the opportunity to get some insights into the projects and activities of the enterprise and to get in contact with experienced engineers.
As part of the WTC 2019 in Naples, a joint workshop on "Mechanized Tunneling in Soft Ground" took place on May 4, 2019 with over 45 participants from 9 nations. The workshop was organized by Dr. Britta Schößer, Project Manager in the Collaborative Research Center 837 Interaction Modelling for Mechanized Tunnelling, among others.
On 12 June 2019, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Markus König will give interested guests a direct insight into current AI developments in the construction industry as part of the series of events "Lecture Hall City: Artificial Intelligence" in Blue Square. Admission to the lecture is free.
On July 10, 2019 the annual "RUB Underground Space Day" takes place, which is organized by the Research Department "Subsurface Modeling and Engineering" and the Collaborative Research Center SFB 837 "Interaction Models for Mechanical Tunnelling". Registrations are possible until June 30, 2019.
On 5 June 2019, students, doctoral candidates and PostDocs can get to know companies from the construction industry directly at the Career Day Construction Industry North Rhine-Westphalia. Up to 400 registered participants are expected in Wuppertal.
On June 4, 2019, all students can vote for the respective students to represent them in the Senate and the different Department Councils. The polling location of our faculty is open from 9:30 am to 4:30 pm on the given date and can be found on level IC 04 next to the library at the marketplace.
May 2019
From January 2019 to June 2022, a cross-university and cross-disciplinary consortium of 12 doctoral students, including Simon Slabik, M.Sc. from the Chair of Resource Efficient Building, has been working at the Research College "Sustainable energy systems in the district". The aim is to develop technical, economic and social control models to increase energy efficiency in the district.
Last Friday, 24th May, students informed themselves extensively about the Master's programmes in Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering and Resource Management and Computational Engineering during a Master's information event. Graduates, chair and student representatives were also present to answer questions about the Master's programme.
On 24 May 2019, the RUB alumni service invited doctoral alumni to celebrate the Silver Doctoral Jubilee, the 25th anniversary of their doctoral degree. Four Silver Doctoral Students from the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering also received their certificates during the ceremony.
On 24.05.2019, students will be able to obtain detailed information about the Master's programmes in Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering and Resource Management as well as Computational Engineering and at the same time attend the obligatory counselling interview for the Master's programme.
On Friday, May 10, 2019, the Faculty received an important visit from Dr. Hà Thúc Viên (Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs) of the Vietnamese-German University (VGU).
On 16 April 2019 and 21 May 2019, the International Office will provide information on internships, study opportunities and dissertations abroad as well as on scholarships and funding opportunities for stays abroad. Experience reports are also part of the programme.
The RUB supports students with outstanding academic achievements and special social commitment with the scholarship "Deutschlandstipendium". Students who are interested in funding in the winter semester 2019/2020 can apply online from now until 16 May 2019.
LabExchange is a program to promote research stays for master's and advanced bachelor's students. RUB students can apply for a research stay abroad (2 weeks to 4 months), students from partner institutions for a research stay at the RUB as well as researchers and lecturers at the RUB within the scope of an initiative grant for the initiation and maintenance of cooperations with partner universities.
The stellenwerk career fair will take place for the second time after last year’s success. On May 14 and 15, 2019, more than 100 exhibitors from different sectors will present themselves at their own booths, in various themed presentations and inform guests about current vacancies – at the Ruhr-University’s own Audimax.
The Center for Higher Education (CHE) published the new CHE University Ranking 2019/2020 on May 7, 2019. The course Civil Engineering is one of the best rated in six categories.
Since 2011, the SFB 837 has established a continuous collaboration "Recent Advances in Tunneling and Underground Space Research" with various international academic partners. Among other research institutions, this includes the IKC Cambridge, UK; the Tongji University Shanghai, China; the ACTUE-Group, Austria; the Colorado School of Mines, USA; the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy and the University of Cork, Ireland.
Whether being a student, graduate, experienced specialist, returnee, executive or just ambitious - at women&work in Frankfurt on May 4, 2019, you will meet more than 250 exhibitors, including more than 100 top employers.
April 2019
Register now for the last places at the Pentecost Field Trip from Tuesday, 11 June to Friday, 14 June 2019, which is organized by the Chairs of Tunneling and Construction Management (Prof. Dr.-Ing. Markus Thewes), Building Materials Technology (Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rolf Breitenbücher) and Statics & Dynamics (Prof. Dr. techn. Günther Meschke).
Since 01.04.2019 Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Torsten Wichtmann (formerly Bauhaus-Universität Weimar) is head of the chair for Soil Mechanics, Foundation Engineering and Environmental Geotechnics. At the start of his work, he answered questions from the faculty's PR team about his research areas, his motivation for studying technology, his tips for students and his plans for the future of the chair.
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Andreas Vogel and B. Sc. Jose Pinzon Escobar, members of the working group High Performance Computing in the Engineering Sciences, are delighted to win a prize of 5,000 euros for their eLearning concept "CodeRunner for student software development for high-performance computers". The RUB's eLearning team honored innovative eLearning solutions in the 23rd round of the competition according to the motto "Hitting the Bull's eye with eLearning".
For about 20 years, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Schumann, holder of the Chair of Hydrology and Water Management, is concerned with the prevention of floods along with his team - a topic that carries high social relevance.
Last Tuesday, April 2, 2019, the lecture series "Sustainable Construction and Housing using Tiny House as an Example" started in the Uniforum Ost - UFO 0/01. You will have the chance to listen to exciting lectures every week all around the topic of sustainable construction and housing.
March 2019
As part of this year's SFB Short Course, scientists from the SFB 837 visited the Filderportal construction site in Stuttgart on 27 and 28 March 2019. In the course of the Stuttgart 21 project, the 9.5 km long Filder Tunnel is constructed by using mechanical tunnelling. This allowed the scientists to take a closer look at the use of the machine on site and, in particular, to examine the measures taken to avoid swelling of the subsoil.
On Friday, 22.03.2019 between 11:00 a.m. and 15:30 p.m., the three engineering faculties will open their doors again for interested visitors, organized by "Alles ING!".
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martina Flörke (formerly University of Kassel) succeeds Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Andreas H. Schumann and now heads the Chair of Engineering Hydrology and Water Management. At the start, she answered questions from the PR team about her research areas, her motivation and her plans for the future.
In the language tandem programme "TANDEM.MINT", students of engineering and natural sciences can not only improve their foreign language skills with a native speaker (or with students with advanced language skills), but also develop their intercultural skills. The registration deadline for the summer semester is 15 March 2019.
The two events "Ways to Dr.-Ing." and "Direct entry into the company with a Master's degree" offer prospective Master graduates in engineering orientation for conscious career planning. In addition to a wide range of information, there is also the opportunity to exchange ideas with alumni and current doctoral candidates.
On the 7th and 8th of March, representatives of the Chair of Building Materials Technology, the Chair of Statics and Dynamics and the SFB 837 took part in the “Deutscher Bautechnik-Tag” at the ICS Stuttgart, which was organized by the German Concrete and Construction Engineering Association (DBV - Deutscher Beton- und Bautechnik-Verein e.V.). Under the motto "Change needs visions and men of action", 80 lectures and 60 exhibitors offered the 1,500 participants new impulses from practical planning, construction and science.
February 2019
On Thursday, 14 February, the President of Ruhr University Bochum, Prof. Dr. Axel Schölmerich, together with SFB 837 Vice-Coordinator Prof. Dr.-Ing. Markus Thewes honoured Prof. em. Dr.-Ing. Dr. h.c. mult. Bernhard Maidl for his 50th anniversary of service. Worldwide, Prof. Bernhard Maidl is one of the leading experts in tunnel construction.
With 486,000 kilometres of traffic jams last year, NRW is number one in Germany-wide comparison. In an interview with the "WAZ", Prof. Dr.-Ing. Justin Geistefeldt of the chair of transport - planning and management explains that permanent congestion on the motorways in NRW will not decrease. Instead, traffic will continue to increase in the foreseeable future.
Digital building permit procedures are currently being introduced in Germany. A new project aims to speed up the approval procedure for building applications by incorporating digital 3D building models. The scientific partner is the team led by Prof. Dr. Markus König from the Chair of Computer Science in Engineering, which hosted a meeting on the digital building application at the Ruhr University on 30 January 2019.
On 04.02.2019 the Student Council of Civil Engineering invited to this year's plenary meeting. After the last year of the student body and the cash balance were reported, the new student body council was introduced and elected. Afterwards the evening ended in a cosy round.
On Monday, 04.02.2019 at 16:00 p.m. the plenary assembly of the student representative council civil engineering takes place in the "Komm" room (03/173).
During the Car-connects, the largest German career fair for the automotive industry, on February 7, 2019, students and graduates of engineering courses can make valuable contacts for their professional future. More than 100 exhibitors are expected.
January 2019
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