Natural Hazards and Risks in Structural Engineering

Der Master-Studiengang Natural Hazards and Risks in Structural Engineering (NHRE) ist ein stark international orientierter Studiengang, der Studierende ausbildet, die anspruchsvolle Ingenieurtätigkeiten unter spezifischen äußeren Einflüssen, wie beispielsweise Erdbeben, ausführen können. Dazu vermitteln wir moderne Hilfsmittel, mit denen Gefahren aus Naturereignissen einschätzbar sind, befähigen zur Modellierung und Simulation und bereiten darauf vor, konkrete Risikoanalysen durchzuführen. So bietet der Studiengang Schlüsselqualifikationen, um innovativ und wegweisend in den Bereichen der verschiedenen Naturgefahren Erdbeben, Flut oder Sturm ingenieurwissenschaftlich tätig zu sein.

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The occurrence of an increasing number of natural hazards all over the world and their various effects on individuals, societies and modern economies is one of the major challenges for future decades. The master course in "Natural Hazards and Risks in Structural Engineering" faces this challenge by providing indispensable tools for taking into account those phenomena in the different design processes in civil engineering. Thereby, the master course aims at combining practical structural engineering with state-of-the-art concepts regarding computational mechanics, dynamics and probability theory/stochastic analysis. Consequently, the master course provides key qualifications for innovative work in the field of earthquake, flood and wind engineering and offers an international setting in which students will achieve both technical success and personal advancement. Main areas covered by the master course in "Natural Hazards and Risks in Structural Engineering" are earthquake engineering and structural design, Geo- and hydrotechnical engineering, Finite element methods and structural dynamics, non-linear analysis of structures under extreme loading, stochastics and risk assessment, as well as disaster management and mitigation strategies. The course program covers, thereby, both theoretical and application orientated topics.