Course: MIB
Summer term

Management Methods in Civil and Environmental Engineering (MIB)

Course contents

  • BIM based engineer cooperation
  • Organization and communication infrastructures
  • Process and workflow management
  • Agile project management
  • Exemplary application of the methods on examples from civil- and environmental engineering

Latest information

The course will next be offered in the summer semester 2025.

Current notes and announcements about the course are provided via Moodle.

General Informationen

Term Summer term
Lecture time Mondays 15:30 – 17:00
weekly
Room L5|01 45b
Requirements Knowledge in computer science in civil engineering
Hours per week (SWS) 2 + 2
Creditpoints (CP) 6
Language of instruction German
Classification M.Sc. module for the courses:
M.Sc. Civil Engineering
M.Sc. Environmental Engineering
M.Sc. Engineering Management – Specialisation Civil Engineering
M.Sc. Computational Engineering
M.Sc. Informatics (Application Subject Building Informatics)
Course
Lecture period Apr. 22nd, 2025 – Jul. 25th, 2025
Schedule Mondays 15:30 – 17:00
weekly
Lecturer Prof. Dr.-Ing. Uwe Rüppel
Consultation By appointment
Exercise
Schedule Wednesdays 13:30 – 15:00
weekly
Exercise adviser Sabrina Becker, M.Sc.
Consultation By appointment
Schedule Start 1. Exercise
  • May 05th, 2025
 End 1. Exercise
  • June 22nd, 2025
Start 2. Exercise
  • May 26th, 2025
 End 2. Exercise
  • July 20th, 2024
Issue and submission of the exercises via the platform Moodle. The registration is performed automatically by subscribing for the lecture and exercise in TUCaN.
Colloquia (participation mandatory) 1. Exercise
  • June 23rd, 2025
 2. Exercise
  • July 21st, 2024
Exam
Date August 04th, 2025
Time to be announced
Room to be announced
Duration
 90 min
Allowed aid Two hand written or printed DIN A4-pages, non programmable calculator
Registration Prior exam registration in TUCaN is required.
Exam review to be announced, registration via mail

Additional information for the exercises

Programming language: C#

Software: Microsoft Excel and Word; Visual Studio; Autodesk Revit and Navisworks Manage

  • Microsoft Office Microsoft Excel and Word can be obtained free of charge via the TU Darmstadt campus license.

Moodle: Registration for the course in moodle is completed upon TUCaN signup. Additional information is subsequently provided in Moodle.

Exercises: The exercise assignments will be done in groups of two to four. The students have about three weeks for each exercise during which consultation for explanations or handling problems is available.

At the end every exercise will be completed by a colloquium. In this colloquium the students must present and discuss their results and programming. The colloquium is obligatory.