Teaching is our Mission. Building a sound Basement for Research and Educating the Future Railway Engineers is our Task. We take that seriously!
We offer lectures on many different aspects of railway engineering and various interfaces of the railway system. We teach track technology, operation, economics, and organisational matters. We offer excursions, field visits and views into practical application with our guest lecturers and expert talks.
Our Topics
We teach the railway system. The bachelor’s program offers a course entitled “Railway Engineering – Basics,” which covers the wide range of topics related to railways, from infrastructure, line design, power supply, and signalling systems to operational management, the various types of transport services, and rolling stock. We offer additionally a hands-on lecture on line design.
In the master studies, these various topics are discussed more in detail. A key focus is track construction and maintenance, starting with inspection and recording of condition data, through analysis and interpretation of this data, to planning of maintenance measures (predictive maintenance). The economic evaluation of different options from the perspective of the infrastructure manager and the derivation of the necessary budgets to provide a sustainable infrastructure will be worked out independently in a practical environment. Other topics include railway operations, resilient infrastructure design, natural hazard management and monitoring, and sustainable urban transport. Other topics include railway operations, resilient infrastructure design, natural hazard management and monitoring, and sustainable urban transport.
Find detailed information on our lectures following the link to TUGRAZ online
Wanna Study Railway Engineering?
The new master curriculum Civil Engineering – Sustainable Infrastructure Systems comes with quite a lot changes compared to the former one. First, it will be an English master programme, given some exceptions the courses will be held in English in order to strengthen the lingua France English in academia, address today’s working opportunities with an international perspective in lots of possible future jobs, and to open the programme for foreign students. Second, the programme is organized in modules a 10 ECTS (like all the other new civil engineering master curricula at TU Graz) – 8 modules are needed to reach 80 credits and to finalise the programme together with the 30 credits master thesis and 10 additional credits (2 mandatory: scientific methods and writing attached to module A and 8 free electives). The most relevant news is, that only two modules are mandatory, the other six can be chosen from a variety of 13 (plus 3) modules within the SIS-programme and possibly content from other disciplines as well. Setting a focus on railway engineering is possible in different ways: 1) fostering construction and maintenance topics together with asset maintenance and economic and resilience topics (infrastructure pillar), 2) focusing on operational issues covering urban mobility, traffic flows, and railway system interactions (operational pillar), and 3) deepening railway system interactions and interfaces (system pillar, note: there are some few German lessons included in those modules as we bring in railway vehicles from the mechanical engineering master that is still taught in German). We propose to chose the interdisciplinary project module in all three pillars as project work is a sound preparation for almost any future career. We understand these three pillar as proposal – skipping the one or the other module replacing it by e.g. bridge construction (structural engineering master) is possible, of course. And still: it is not a “railway” master and it shouldn’t be! The mandatory modules A and B provide a sound knowledge on infrastructure systems and networks and most modules come with wider contents than only railway engineering. This will guarantee freedom in career paths for all graduates.
We would be happy to provide further information in a face-to-face discussion!
Link Master’s degree Civil Engineering – Sustainable Infrastructure Systems