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VR4Teach receives special prize for digital teaching
2019/12/13
IIB honored at the 2019 Athene awards
In recognition of academic teaching at the TU Darmstadt, the Carlo and Karin Giersch Foundation awarded this year’s Athene awards on 27th November. Amongst other things, the prize for digital teaching, endowed with 5,000 euros, was also awarded. Here, the IIB was honored for addressing current issues and challenges in the field of study and teaching.
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New research fellow at IIB
2019/12/06
News from the institute
Just before the turn of the year, the Institute of Numerical Methods and Computer Science in Civil Engineering received further support on 01.12.2019. After Mr. Patrick Scheich, M.Sc., assumed their activities at the beginning of the year and Ms. Luisa Kuhn, M.Sc., in the middle of the year, we are now pleased to welcome Mr. Zhongxin Xia, M.Sc. to the Institute.
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“BIM – new roles, new potentials. Experience reports from practice”
2019/11/20
Invitation to a practitioner lecture at IIB
“BIM – new roles, new potentials. Experience reports from practice” – this is the title of the presentation by Mr. Kujajewski at the IIB. Steffen Kujajewski is head of the BIM department of ZECH Bau Holding and will present insights into his work on 27.01.2020. The lecture will be held in German language.
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Game night at IIB
2019/10/30
A 'Thank you' to our student assisstants
On Thursday, 10.10.2019, a game night took place at the IIB. Since a barbecue ban was declared once again this year in Darmstadt, the Institute used this opportunity instead to thank the student assistants for the preparation and supervision of the courses as well as the support in the various research projects.
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Exploration of the Berlin Underworlds
2019/09/18
News from the institute
The 31st edition of the Forum Bauinformatik, an annual conference especially for young scientists in the field of informatics in civil engineering, took place in Berlin this year. Since 1993, the Institute has participated in the Forum Bauinformatik on an ongoing basis in order to present research work, discuss problems on a subject-specific basis and inform itself about the latest state of research. As always, various contributions on diverse research topics were published and presented.
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Reinforcements over the Summer
2019/09/04
News from the institute
The Institute for Numerical Methods and Informatics in Civil Engineering has been further strengthened on 01.08.2019. After welcoming Patrick Scheich, M. Sc., who took up his activity at the institute in February this year, Luisa Kuhn, M.Sc. now starts her path as a research assistant for the courses and research projects at the institute. The current number of doctoral students thus increases to eleven.
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Innovative technologies at the German Institute for Virtual Reality
2019/05/24
The IIB at the DIVR award ceremony
With the project “VR4Teach” (see also: “VR in lectures”, news article from February 28th, 2019 ) and the results of Pascal Mosler's bachelor thesis on virtual fire fighting with modern digital methods, the Institute of Numerical Methods and Informatics in Civil Engineering was represented at the DIVR award during the VR Science & Business Day of the Places Festival on March 23rd, 2019 in the Science Park Gelsenkirchen.
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Infoveranstaltung für Absolventinnen: Promovieren am Graduiertenkolleg KRITIS
2019/04/05
Das interdisziplinäre Graduiertenkolleg KRITIS möchte vor allem Frauen ermutigen, den Weg in die Wissenschaft zu wagen. Dazu lädt das Kolleg zu einer Infoveranstaltung mit Gelegenheit zum Austausch mit Wissenschaftlerinnen des Kollegs ein.
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RessStadtQuartier – Instrumente für die ressourceneffiziente Entwicklung von Quartieren
2019/03/27
Neues Forschungsprojekt unter Beteiligung des IIB und zwei weiteren Fachgebieten des FB 13 gestartet
Der Gebäudebestand stellt das größte „Rohstofflager“ der Gesellschaft dar und hat gleichzeitig einen wesentlichen Anteil an der Nachfrage nach Energie. Beide Aspekte sind wichtige Handlungsfelder für die Erhöhung der Ressourceneffizienz im Gebäudesektor. Gleichzeitig unterliegen städtische Quartiere in Ballungsräumen heute einem vielfältigen Veränderungsdruck, mit dem eine steigende Dynamik von Planungsprozessen einhergeht.
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TU Darmstadt's E-Learning group as guest at the IIB
2019/03/15
Demonstrations on the topics VR, AR and Digital Teaching
On Thursday, February 28th, 2019, the E-Learning group of TU Darmstadt visited the institute. In keeping with the topic “Virtual Reality – Potentials and Insights at the Darmstadt CES-Lab”, the participants were able to take a closer look at new technologies and approaches for teaching and research and also try them out for themselves. We would like to thank everyone involved for their keen interest and would like to take this opportunity to refer to the university-wide “Digital Teaching” workshop in June.