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 next course will be offered in the summer semester 2025.

General Informationen

Term Summer term
Lecture time Tuesday 13:30 – 15:10
weekly
Room L5|01 45B
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)
Course
Lecture period Apr. 29th – Jul. 22nd, 2025
Lecturer Dr. Andreas Meyer
Dr.-Ing. Frank Reußner
Consultation by appointment
Additional information This lecture series features different lecturers over the course of the semester.
Exercise
Schedule Wednesdays (weekly)
11:40 – 13:10
Exercise adviser Lars Wagenbach, M.Sc.
Consultation By appointment
Schedule Start 1. Exercise
  • May 6th 2025
 End 1. Exercise
  • May 26th 2025
Start 2. Exercise
  • May 27th 2025
 End 2. Exercise
  • Jun. 23rd 2025
Start 3. Exercise
  • Jun. 24th 2025
 End 3. Exercise
  • Jul. 21st 2025
Issue and submission of the exercises via Moodle.
Exam
Date Jul. 29th, 2025
Time TBA
Room TBA
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