18/04/2012
Between 4 and 8 April, 2012, Sabanci University IEEE Student Branch has organized a technical trip to Munich, Germany as guests of the IEEE Student Branch of Technical University of Munich. 21 club members attended to the technical trip: Ahmet Alper Yalçın, Ahmet Hamdi Tokel, Alperen Mustafa Turgut, Aykut Kadayıfçı, Barış Çete, Batuhan Baykal, Can Gemicioğlu, Cansu Yıldırım, Çağla Koca, Ece Kocagil, Emre Uçar, Fırat Özdemir, Göksan Işıl, İrem Boybat, Kerim Kemal Kibaroğlu, Mehmet Armanç Özhan, Nazlı Kılıçaslan, Ogün Onur Kibar, Onur Zungur, Rıdvan Kahraman, Serhan Gül.
In the frame of the technical trip, members of the SU IEEE club have been able to obtain detailed knowledge on both industrial and academic world of Germany. At the first day of the trip, world-renowned BMW World, located near the Munich Olympic Park, was visited. BMW World consists of BMW plant and BMW museum. SU IEEE members realized a guided tour of the plant, in which more than 900 cars and up to 1,400 engines are built per day. In this plant visit, students gained an an exciting insight into all areas of automobile production. They observed and received information about almost all stages of the production including the Press Shop, Body Shop, Paint Shop, Engine Shop, the Production of Interior Equipment and Seats, as well as Assembly of the automobiles. Moreover, they had a unique experience in BMW museum, being able to delve into the history of the company and observing automobiles built at various stages of its history.
In the following days, SU IEEE members came together with the IEEE members of Technical University of Munich. Both groups, consisting mainly of electronics and mechatronics engineering students, exchanged information about their respective education systems, investigated the differences and similarities between engineering approaches of two systems. TU Munich students showed SU IEEE members their university, concentrating specifically on engineering departments. Students were able to observe the research environment in TU Munich by visiting the digital image/video analysis and power electronics laboratories at the university. They acquired important information about an international research facility and the German education system.
Lastly, SU IEEE members also visited the world’s largest museum of technology and science, the “Deutsches Museum”. With approximately 1.5 million visitors per year and about 28,000 exhibited objects from 50 fields of science and technology, Deutsches Museum have been a unique experience for SU students. They were able to get information about many scientific breakthroughs from past to present and took a glimpse to the future of science and engineering. SU IEEE members focused especially on nanotechnology, microelectronics, optics and electrical machines sections of the museum and got involved to museum’s interactive experiments.
Overall, the technical trip has become both a great learning experience and enjoyable tour of German industry and academia, motivating SU IEEE members to further organize and attend to such trips.
