Students are often overwhelmed by the variety of topics and breadth of content covered. For this reason, a 5-day block course is offered, which provides a clear overview and combines the theoretical basics with numerous practical exercises.

Experimental investigations have always played an important role in expanding our understanding of systems and deriving engineering solutions in hydraulic engineering. In connection with “Healthy Rivers”, a large number of processes are involved (morphodynamics, influence of vegetation, transport processes of wood and plastic, etc.) for which only inadequate model approaches are available to date.
The students independently plan and develop an experiment to determine the transport of various plastic objects. The experimental results are critically scrutinized and compared with existing model approaches to the transport of solids. The project work in the student group is accompanied by a team of supervisors and the learning process is reflected on with the students.