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Nomination of the Extended Reality Platform for Digital Teaching in Engineering Hydrology (XR4Hydro) for the DIVR Award

The research project XR4Hydro was nominated for the DIVR Award and was presented at the DASA in Dortmund.

Interdisciplinary Unity Workshop for students of TU Darmstadt and TU Graz from 22 to 25 November 2022

We teach you how to create an interactive VR game from a digital building model (BIM)! During a workshop week, you will get to know the game engine Unity and develop an immersive multiplayer application together with students from TU Graz/Austria.

First Forum Bauinformatik in presence since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic

After the IIB hosted last year's Forum Bauinformatik, it took place this year at the TU Munich.

News from the Institute

From June 9th to 11th, 2022, the summer event and mountain seminar of the IIB-Förderverein finally took place again after a long break caused by the COVID19 pandemic.

Insight into practice and networking at digitalBAU

At the digitalBAU this year, 270 exhibitors presented their ideas and solutions for the digitization of the construction industry at the Cologne exhibition center. In order to get an insight into practice and to establish contacts with leading digital companies, scientific research assistant Maximilian Gehring visited the fair on behalf of the IIB.

HessenHub OER Award 2022 for Pascal Mosler

Pascal Mosler, research assistant at the IIB, was awarded the first OER Prize of the HessenHub. Pascal Mosler received the prize for creating explanatory videos for the course “Geometric Modelling and Visualisation I”. The HessenHub is a network for digital university teaching in Hesse that awards educational resources under free licence (Open Educational Resources) with the OER prize.

Workshop for architecture students finished

As part of the teaching and research cooperation between the Institute of Urban Design at TU Graz and the Institute for Numerical Methods and Informatics in Civil Engineering at TU Darmstadt (iib), a workshop for architecture students was held in Graz.

News from the Institute

On May 1, 2022 Mr. Oskar Neumann, M.Sc. starts his work as a research assistant at the Institute of Numerical Methods and Informatics in Civil Engineering. In the coming terms Mr. Neumann will supervise the courses “Engineering Informatics I” and “Engineering Informatics II”.

News from the Institute

The Institute of Numerical Methods and Informatics in Civil Engineering (IIB) welcomes its new colleague Maximilian Gehring, M.Sc.. He will support the IIB in courses and research projects.

News from the institute

The Institute for Numerical Methods and Informatics in Civil Engineering has acquired new hardware at the semester beginning: The Husarion robot ROSbot 2.0 Pro and the AI computer with an “AMD Ryzen ThreadRipper 3970x” processor as well as a “Geforce RTX 3090” graphics card. This was done as part of the “Hochschulpakt 2020” from the state of Hesse. The equipment will be used to improve the teaching in automatisation and artificial intelligence for engineering tasks.

Reception at the Kurhaus Wiesbaden

The honor has been awarded! In the middle of the year it was already announced that the former Head of Institute, Univ.-Prof. em. Dr.-Ing., habil. Dr.-Ing. E.h. Udo F. Meißner, is to receive the Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for his scientific and honorary work. The award ceremony took place during the assembly of members of the Ingenieurkammer Hessen. The IIB congratulates most cordially!