Our living environment is becoming increasingly contaminated: waste and pollutants in sewage and exhaust fumes have a negative impact on our quality of life. This is one reason why technical environmental protection is gaining importance. It plays a significant role in climate protection, energy efficiency and the conservation of natural resources – considerable challenges both now and for the future. Graduates of the bachelor’s degree program in Environmental and Process Engineering can help to shape this future.
Undergraduates on this seven-semester course are trained in the fields of engineering and technology at Augsburg University of Applied Sciences. This training includes several areas of science and is structured as an integrated, interdisciplinary program of study. The main focus of the course is understanding processes that occur in nature and technology and use process engineering to develop solutions. Process engineering is defined as the conversion of matter through mechanical, thermal, chemical and biological, and nuclear processes. The matter can be in gaseous, liquid or solid. Process engineering uses around 60 basic operations that can be applied both in environmental engineering and in the production of mass goods such as cement, gasoline, paper, cosmetics and beer.
The syllabus of the bachelor’s program in Environmental and Process Engineering includes scientific and technical foundation modules in the first two semesters, which are expanded in the 3rd and 4th semesters to focus on their practical applications. Students then spend their 5th semester doing an internship in industry, where they can put what they have learnt into practice. In the last year of the degree program (6th/7th semesters), the budding engineers are encouraged to specialize: the wide range of required elective courses allows specialization in the fields of environmental engineering or energy management.