Civil Engineering and Structural Engineering – (M.Sc.)

Civil Engineering and Structural engineering includes the subject areas that are required for the planning, structural design and operational maintenance of structures in building and bridge construction.

Thus, this means the entire wealth of experience of above-ground construction. Civil and Structural engineers are professionals when it comes to concrete, steel or wood construction, and they dimension and choose the building materials. This also includes all static and dynamic calculations for all beam and surface structures.

The building and construction industry is very important for the environment and the national economy. Therefore graduates of a Civil Engineering program have a lot of responsibility in their professional work in the tug-of-war of politics, society, the environment, the economy and science. The wide range of knowledge of the field and the rapid technological development of the different disciplines of civil engineering require a great deal of technical knowledge and marked social and economic competences of graduates.

The Civil Engineering Sciences - Structural Engineering master´s program of the Faculty of Civil Engineering at Graz University of Technology includes the subject areas that are required for the planning, structural design and operational maintenance of structures in building and bridge construction as well as of related facilities. It thus covers the engineering tasks as they are to be done in engineering offices, construction companies, authorities and research and development institutions. It is also the basis for work in research and teaching.

After graduating from the master´s program
o Graduates are proficient in the scientific fundamentals of their subject, such as mathematics, descriptive geometry, physics, and in particular, mechanics, informatics, construction material sciences and surveying.

o They are familiar with the most up-to-date theories, principles and methods of their field, in particular, the static and dynamic modelling and calculating of any beam and surface structures, the construction and dimensioning of concrete, steel and wooden structures taking the material laws and requirements of building physics into consideration.

o They know and apply the most important problem-solving strategies, especially the standardized implementation of individual designs and their numerical calculation, in particular following the finite elements method.

o They have the concentrated knowledge they need to make legal and
economic decisions as part of their independent planning process, in particular for structures in building and bridge construction.