Environmental and Process Engineering

Study programme planned for Wintersemester 2025/26

Would you like to actively contribute to shaping a sustainable future and take responsibility for our environment? Then the Enviromental and Process Engineering degree programme at Heilbronn University is the perfect start for you! In this practical course, you will learn how you can make an important contribution to environmental protection with innovative technologies and sustainable processes and transform industry in a sustainable way.

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Overview

Career prospects

With a degree in environmental and process engineering, you have excellent career opportunities in industry, energy supply and environmental protection. The field is constantly growing.

A key professional field is process engineering, where you will develop processes that use resources such as energy, water and materials efficiently and protect the environment. You will be particularly in demand in the chemical industry, the energy sector, waste management or the food industry to develop environmentally friendly and sustainable processes.

There are also many opportunities to take on a leading role in the development of renewable energies or innovative technologies. With your specialist knowledge, you will actively contribute to solving global environmental problems and open up a wide range of career paths worldwide.

Programme Structure

Basic Study (in English)

Main Study (in German)

In the main course, the fundamentals are expanded and a broad range of subject-specific knowledge is taught. The lectures are supplemented by practical exercises in the laboratories.

Specialist and technical electives (lectures and laboratories)
Mathematics and Natural Sciences Specialisation
Thermal process engineering
Heat- and mass transfer with Laboratory
Environmental & process analysis with laboratory
Environmental laboratory
Mechanical process engineering
Process engineering laboratory
Chemical engineering
Chemistry & Analytic Laboratory
Fluid dynamics
Industrial ecology
Interdisciplinary Qualification
- Extracurricular (interfaculty) studies

In the advanced studies programme you have considerable freedom to choose your areas of focus, based on your experience from the practical semester. In addition, you can attend various lectures from other courses in the faculty. Of course, content on management and soft skills is not left out.

Specialist and technical electives (lectures and laboratories)
Project sustainable processes
Project Planning and Colloquium
Apparatus engineering
Extracurricular (interfaculty) studies

The degree programme concludes with the Bachelor’s thesis, in which a project at the university or in cooperation with a company is independently planned, organised and implemented.