Course: UIS
Summer term

Environmental Information Systems (UIS)

Course contents

  • GIS: Communal applications
  • Groundwater management and monitoring
  • Environmental data: acquisition, storage, interpretation and management
  • BigData: Standards, visualization and analysis
  • Basics and Methods of energy engineering informatics
  • Application examples of the presented methods in environmental engineering

Latest information

The course will be suspended from the summer semester 2026 onwards.

General Informationen

Requirements Basic knowledge in computer science in civil engineering
Hours per week (SWS) 2 + 2
Creditpoints (CP) 6
Language 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)
Additional information The course will be suspended from the summer semester 2026 onwards.
Exercise
Exercise adviser Lars Wagenbach, M.Sc.
Consultation By appointment
Schedule Issue and submission of the exercises via Moodle.
Exam
Duration
 90 min
Allowed aid One DIN-A4 page, double-sided, hand written or printed; calculator
Registration Prior exam registration in TUCaN is required.
Post-exam review Individual arrangement
The exam questions will be in German language. Answers may be provided in English, previous notification is required. Please consult the adviser.

Literature

  • Bill: Grundlagen der Geoinformationssystem, Wichmann
  • Warcup: Von der Landkarte zum GIS: Eine Einführung in Geografische Informationssysteme, Points
  • Fürst: GIS in Hydrologie und Wasserwirtschaft, Wichmann