The aim of this lecture is the awareness of the basic correlations of civil engineering. The lecture should familiarize the students with the field "civil engineering". The student gain basis knowledge in technichal engineering tasks in all fields and gains a better understanding for the used methods and the related solution approach. Relationships between different areas should be regognized.
In the lecture of our institute the institute itself, the lab and the activities at the institute are presented. Applied as well as fundamental research projects are introduced. Moreover, the teaching of the institute is described briefly.