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Building Products & Processes - today's megatrend!
This innovative degree programme was developed on the initiative of our numerous industry and business partners. To be at the forefront of challenges in the construction industry, we train students to be engineers with a focus on the development, management and marketing of building products and building processes, including:
- Sustainability and circular economy of all building elements
- Digitalisation and Building Information Modelling (BIM)
- Holistic view of building products from idea to market launch
- National and international building law and building product law
- Technical and commercial project management for the construction and interior fit-out of buildings
- Finishing trades in new and existing buildings
- German and English technical language
Study - Work - Live
You will enjoy the benefits of flexible and individual studies in the heart of Europe. Thanks to the unique concept of the BPP degree programme, you don‘t have to sacrifice anything:
- Study, work, family and leisure in your own combination!
Unique study model that combines flexibility with quality:
Our innovative learning concept for you.
You will gain an insight into industry-relevant topics through:
- Practice
- On-site lectures and workshops in our modern laboratories
- Project work in a team
- Excursions to the industry
Find out more about how theory and practice are combined in the degree programme: Hands-on learning experience – Building Products and Processes.
- Online offer
- Teaching the theoretical basics via lectures
- Moderated group work and self-study for in-depth study
What does that mean for you?
- High quality teaching and research thanks to state-of-the-art laboratories
- Efficient and practice-oriented studies
- More freedom alongside your studies
- Close proximity to companies alongside your studies
- Practically relevant content and a combination of theory and practice
How do we support you?
- Intensive training in small workgroups
- Preparation for the German and international market via
- Inclusion of English and German in lectures
- Industry cooperation and project work
- We have a network of company contacts for internships and theses
- Communication channels to teaching staff are easy and direct, both on- & offline
Practical relevance through our labs and cooperation partners
Practice is very important to us. In our specialized labs, you will learn during your studies how to successfully apply theoretical principles in the areas of testing and measurement technology for industrial product development and quality management.
Our cooperation partners come from all areas of the construction industry! We are in constant contact with them so that current challenges and issues in the construction industry are constantly incorporated into the course.
Are you aiming for a career in construction or product development?
Then languages are important for your professional success! Because you need to be able to read and understand national and international building regulations and laws.
As a BPP engineer, you must therefore be proficient in English and German, and we have already taken this into account in our Building Products and Processes degree program:
- For technical content, your studies will start with lectures in English and then gradually switch to German
- The technical lectures will give you the specialist English skills you need to communicate effectively in the construction industry worldwide
- International students also acquire practical German language skills that facilitate their integration and employment in German companies
- Students whose native language is German can improve their language skills to a level where they can communicate fluently in Business-English. In consultation with the Language Center, they can choose from a range of other language courses offered by Deggendorf Institute of Technology. This is the ideal way to prepare yourself for an international career.
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Subject Overview
Overview of the courses, Weekly Semester Hours (SWS) and ECTS (European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System) for the programme Bachelor of Engineering in Building Products and Processes.
*Students whose native language is German instead choose additional language courses after consulting with the Language Center.
- Architectural History and Theory
- Entrepreneurship
- Strategic Planning and Project Management
- Financing and Accounting
- Technology and Intellectual Property Rights
- Prozess Optimization
- Prozess Safety
- Life Cycle Analysis and Ecobalancing
- SIVV-Certificate
- IFRS and Organizational Law
- Interdisciplinary Product Development
- Innovative Constructions and Building Products
- Applied AI in the Building Process
- Real Estate Investment
- Vernomimicry
Career Prospects
As a graduate engineer, you are able to develop, market and manage sustainable building products all over the world. You will use your knowledge of the complex building systems of building structures (concrete, masonry, steel and timber construction, hybrid construction methods). The same applies to your knowledge of the building structure (façade to roof) and interior finishing (floor, ceiling, wall). You have to be fit in these areas, because the demands on the products are increasing: architecturally and constructionally sophisticated, resource-saving, recyclable, healthy. And these are only some of the attributes that a building product should fulfil in the future. You also know the finishing trades (building automation, heating, ventilation, sanitation) including their numerous interfaces.
In the development and processing of building products, engineers in the Building Products and Processes degree programme rely on the continuous use of digital building blocks (BIM) for the efficient networking of all those involved in the planning, production and construction of buildings. After graduation, you will have a high level of language competence. The confident handling of both German- and English-language literature, building regulations, EN standards, etc. is daily business for engineers in the Building Products and Processes degree programme. You have to implement and coordinate building specifications and technical documents accordingly during construction. The modular structure of the lectures and the teaching of both technical and language skills offer graduates excellent career opportunities in all branches of the national and international construction industry. If you want, you can travel the world through your profession.
What are your prospects and career after graduation?
Many doors are open to you after the BPP degree:
- Start your career in the construction industry - here, for example, you can work as
- Product developer and project manager for construction products
- Technical and commercial project manager for the management and implementation of interdisciplinary projects
- Process owner, digital transformation, digitalization manager and Industry 4.0 expert
- BIM manager and BIM coordinator (Building Information Modeling)
- Sustainability consultant in the construction industry
- Technical purchasing and sales
- Technical editor
- Technical and commercial project controlling
- Customer support and consulting
- Quality management
- An advanced Master's degree, e.g. our Master's degree program in Healthy and Sustainable Buildings
A small selection of our cooperation partners
Our cooperation partners come from all areas of the construction industry! We are in constant dialogue with them so that current challenges and issues in the construction industry are constantly incorporated into the course.
