Institute for Sanitary Engineering, Water Quality and Solid Waste ...

Universität Stuttgart
The Institute for Sanitary Engineering, Water Quality and Solid Waste Management
(ISWA) is a research and training facility of the University of Stuttgart
(Universität Stuttgart) within the faculty of “Civil and Environmental Engineering
Sciences”. The University’s Sewage Treatment Plant for Research and Teaching,
which is situated within the institute, is unique throughout Europe.
Experts from various engineering and natural sciences
work together at our institute on an interdisciplinary
basis. Our principal areas of expertise are the classical
engineering tasks in the environmental fields of water,
wastewater, solid waste, soil and exhaust air.
The continuous development of technical facilities and
practical methods in the fields of industrial and municipal
supply and disposal are the focus of our interest.
Our experience is also incorporated in the monitoring
and development of quality assurance measures and
management systems.
Our institute, which is known today as the Institute for
Sanitary Engineering, Water Quality and Solid Waste
Management (ISWA), was founded as the “Institute
for Sanitary Engineering and Health Technology” in the
early 1950s. At that time it was the first educational
establishment in Germany for civil engineers in the
field of water and solid waste in urban development. In
the 1970s the first chair of solid waste management at
a German university was created. Today, our institute
is one of the largest of its kind in the world.
We offer a large variety of study courses
in Sanitary Engineering – represent the broad spectrum
of environmental issues that occupy us in two
departments and seven sections. Our institute offers
numerous courses and internships in basic and specialized
studies as well as student research projects,
dissertations, Bachelor- and Master’s theses for the
following courses of study:
• Civil Engineering
• Environmental Engineering
• WAREM (Water Resources Engineering and Management)
• WASTE (Air Quality Control, Solid Waste and Waste
Water Process Engineering)
• Infrastructure Planning
• Geography
• Technical Biology
• real estate technic and -industry
• EDUBRAS-MAUI
For the first time, ISWA introduced a M. Sc. course
under German administration at the public university
UFBR of Curitiba, Brazil. The project named „Export of
German universitary education“ is funded by DAAD.
Therewith, courses of ISWA are also offered overseas.
The four chairs at the ISWA – Sanitary Engineering
and Water Quality Management, Sanitary Engineering
and Water Recycling, Solid Waste Management
and Exhaust Air, Hydrochemistry and Hydrobiology
In addition there are courses for students of process
engineering, real estate management, biology and chemistry.
We also participate in the international doctoral
candidate programme ENWAT (Environment Water) of
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