Niederschlagsschwellenwerte bei der Auslösung von Muren

Die zentrale Hypothese dieser Arbeit lautete, dass die Auslösung von Muren im Vinschgau an Niederschlagsschwellenwerte gekoppelt ist, die mithilfe von statistischen Modellen berechnet werden können. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wurden Niederschlagsschwellenwerte für die Auslösung von Muren mithilfe des Antecedent Daily Rainfall Models nach GLADE et al. (2000) für den Vinschgau errechnet. Das Modell für den Zeitraum von 1920 bis 2007 lieferte keine realistischen Resultate. Einerseits gab es sehr viele Tage mit hohen Niederschlagswerten, an denen keine Mure beobachtet werden konnte und andererseits gab es viele Tage mit niedrigen oder gar keinen Niederschlägen, an denen eine Mure beobachtet wurde. Das liegt daran, dass einerseits nicht alle aufgetretenen Muren beobachtet werden konnten und andererseits dass nicht alle lokalen Niederschläge durch das Netz der Wetterstationen aufgezeichnet werden konnten. Um das Modell zu verbessern, wurde es nochmals nur für den Zeitraum von 1998 bis 2007 erstellt, da die Aufzeichnung der Muren ab 1998 durch die Einführung eines standardisierten Formulars verbessert wurde. Die Ergebnisse für diesen Zeitraum waren realistischer. Es wurde im Rahmen dieser Arbeit bewiesen, dass das Antecedent Daily Rainfall Modell für Muren angewendet werden kann. Letztendlich konnte gezeigt werden, dass im Vinschgau der Niederschlag, der am Tag der Mure fällt, wesentlich wichtiger für die Auslösung ist, als der vorangegangene Niederschlag. Darüber hinaus können die Erkenntnisse dieser Arbeit zu einer verbesserten Anwendung des Antecedent Daily Rainfall Modells für Muren beitragen. Mit einer gezielten Verbesserung der Daten, kann das Modell durchaus als Grundlage zur Konzeption von Frühwarnsystemen für Muren dienen, indem es realistische Niederschlagsschwellenwerte liefert

Internationalization @ home in Engineering Education: Enhancing Social Capital in English-taught Master´s Programmes

[EN] German higher education institutions attract students from all over the word for degree mobility, especially after the Bologna reform has led to an increase in internationally-oriented, English-taught study programmes. With such programmes, universities serve the politically intended purpose of attracting highly qualified talent in the form of international graduates that might potentially stay for the German job market. But for the transition from studies to the work market to be successful, it is essential for international students to acquire social capital in the form of contacts to people from the host country. This paper firstly presents results of a study on the situation of students who come to study in international engineering programmes at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum in Germany, focusing on the unsatisfactory contact situation of international and German students revealed in the study. Secondly, measures of the project ELLI2 – Excellent Teaching and Learning in Engineering Sciences – are introduced that aim at improving this situation, fascilitating contact between German and international engineering students. The set-up of a tandem-programme is presented, as well as participation structure and evaluation results of the first two runs of this programm in 2017/18. In addition, an international student council network will be introduced.Ulbrich, N.; Strenger, N. (2019). Internationalization @ home in Engineering Education: Enhancing Social Capital in English-taught Master´s Programmes. En HEAD'19. 5th International Conference on Higher Education Advances. Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València. 353-360. https://doi.org/10.4995/HEAD19.2019.9391OCS35336

Implementation of International Master’s Programmes in Engineering Education in Germany

[EN] This paper introduces the framework conditions of the internationalization process of the higher education system in Germany and gives an overview of the implementation of international Master’s programmes in engineering education and the characteristics of student migrants in this field of studies. Developments on the macro-level clearly indicate political interest to attract more international students for German universities and the technical disciplines in Germany are already very successful in this endeavour. With a special focus on higher education reforms in engineering, this paper is based on an investigation directed at the meso-level, the motivations and strategies at the level of university and faculties for establishing such international study programmes. The results of a qualitative study will be presented that was conducted at the engineering faculties of the Ruhr-Universität in Bochum between December 2014 and August 2015. With the overall aim of investigating in how far the decisions made on university and faculty levels are related to the general political endeavors to attract international talent, the different stakeholders’ interests and implementation strategies such as language policy were consideredStrenger, N.; Frerich, S. (2016). Implementation of International Master’s Programmes in Engineering Education in Germany. En 2nd. International conference on higher education advances (HEAD'16). Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València. 152-159. https://doi.org/10.4995/HEAD16.2015.2617OCS15215

Internationalization and Digitalization in Engineering Education

[EN] Digital, virtual and E-learning elements have increasingly become a part in higher education and, most recently, the high potential of digitalization for processes of strategic internationalization of higher education institutions is coming into focus. The collaborative project of three German universities, XYZ, is working on strategies for the internationalization and virtualization of engineering education. While these topics used to be different key areas of the project, a combination of both distinguished itself as a potential new working field. This paper introduces two pilot concepts that were implemented and evaluated at the universities Y and Z which both aim at the complementation of incoming students’ experiences in Germany by digital means. At Y, a transnational online class explores means of preparing degree-mobile engineering students from all over the world for their master’s studies in Germany. At Z, an online course was designed to accompany a summer school research exchange for US-American engineering students in order to prolong their short-term mobility by digital elements. These pilot projects were well-accepted by students and faculty at both universities and their evaluations between 2014 and 2017 have revealed valuable results for further optimization. This paper presents the results and discusses future potential.Strenger, N.; May, D.; Ortelt, T.; Kruse, D.; Frerich, S.; Tekkaya, AE. (2017). Internationalization and Digitalization in Engineering Education. En Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Higher Education Advances. Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València. 558-565. https://doi.org/10.4995/HEAD17.2017.528955856