Scientific work
Bachelor's theses, master's theses and dissertations can be completed at the Department of Environmental Engineering on an ongoing basis. For all theses, it is particularly important to us that students are involved in the research activities of the department. On the one hand, this guarantees high-quality supervision and, on the other, offers the opportunity to work on current scientific issues using state-of-the-art methods. Collaboration with companies is also possible. This creates a direct link to practice.
You can obtain information about available topics or similar either here, in the relevant courses, as a notice in the Institute's display case or directly from our staff. You can also suggest your own ideas or topics.
The Bachelor's thesis is regulated in the curriculum of the Bachelor's degree programme in Civil and Environmental Engineering in § 6. In contrast to diploma and master's theses, the bachelor's thesis is not a scientific paper. Students are entitled to complete a Bachelor's thesis as part of the course Urban Water Management UE (summer semester).
The Department of Environmental Engineering offers a variety of different topics with different focal points, for example
Laboratory work
Measurements at the Campus Technik
Collaboration in research projects and concrete planning in co-operation with engineering offices and the municipality
You will receive information about the Bachelor's thesis process at the beginning of the summer semester as part of the course. All required documents can be found at here.
Currently free topics for a master thesis:
Effects of smart metering in water-rich areas
Influence of blocked inlet shafts on the risk of flooding
"Low-tech" and "low-cost" data for the calibration of sewer network models
Hydrodynamic sewer network calculation Fieberbrunn (Contact: Manfred Kleidorfer)
Hydrodynamic sewer network calculation / flooding calculation Kufstein (contact: Manfred Kleidorfer)
Climate-friendly square design, improvement of the energy and water balance at Dr. Lugger Platz in Innsbruck (contact: Manfred Kleidorfer)
Please also note the showcases on the ground floor and 3rd floor as well as at the counsellors. We also have ongoing topics on current research projects that are not announced separately here
master's theses can be written in either German or English.
Dissertations are written at the Department of Environmental Engineering as part of current research projects. Independent, high-quality scientific research and familiarisation with the international scientific community is the aim of a dissertation. Thus, in addition to writing the actual thesis, a dissertation includes international publications, conference visits and research stays abroad. Usually, dissertations at the Department of Environmental Engineering are written as cumulative dissertations, i.e. they include several publications in national and international journals.
Due to copyright restrictions imposed by the publishers, the theses made available for download here usually do not contain published articles, but only the outline. The articles can be requested from the authors.
Ongoing dissertations:
- Amin Minaei (Urban Water Management)
- Aun Dastgir (Urban Water Management)
- Sina Hesarkazzazi (Urban Water Management)
- Mohsen Hajibabaei (Urban Water Management)
- Jacqueline Winkler (Waste Treatment and Resource Management)
- Thomas Lichtmannegger (Waste Treatment and Resource Management)
- Dominik Bosch (Waste Treatment and Resource Management)
- Tayyeb Zeirani Nav (Waste Treatment and Resource Management)
Abgeschlossene Dissertationen:
- Marco Wehner: Storage of co-substrates and economic aspects of co-digestion at wastewater treatment plants
- Alice do Carmo Precci Lopes: Mechanical pretreatment of residual waste for co-digestion in wastewater treatment plants
- Martin Oberascher: Innovative Concepts and Applications for Smart Water Cities
- Jonatan Zischg: Transition modelling of urban water infrastructure to robust and sustainable system states
- Christian Mikovits: Influences, Risks and Prospects of City Development on Urban Drainage Systems
- Maria Ortner: Environmental Assessment Challenges of Waste Management Systems
- Michael Mair: DynaVIBe : Dynamic Virtual Infrastructure Benchmarking
- Franz Tscheikner-Gratl: Integrated approach for Multi-Utility rehabilitation Planning of Urban Water Infrastructure
- Michael Meister: Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics in Urban Water Management
- Irene Schneider: Optimierte Behandlung und Verwertung von biogenen Reststoffen
- Günther Leonhardt: Development and Application of Software Sensors and Reverse Models for Urban Drainage Systems
- Gregor Burger: Parallel Computing in Urban Water Management
- Christian Urich: Modelling the Coevolution of Cities and their Infrastructure
- Robert Sitzenfrei: Stochastic Generation of Urban Water Systems for Case Study Analysis
- Davy Vanham: Integrated Water Resources Management in Alpine Regions: Development and Application of Methodologies for the Analysis of present and future Conditions
- Manfred Kleidorfer: Uncertain calibration of urban drainage models
- Michael Möderl: Modelling analysis of network systems in urban water management
- Michael Schön: Numerical Modelling of Anaerobic Digestion Processes in Agrigultural Biogas Plants
- Stefan Achleitner: Modular conceptual modelling in urban drainage development and application of city drain
- Sara De Toffol: Sewer system performance assessment – an indicators based methodology
- Carolina Engelhard: Assessing the impact of urban drainage measures with regard to the water framework directive