Unfortunately this Saturday is our last full day together, today we went to go something we needed to see but not something that was easy to see. Today we went to see Dachau concentration camp, the first ever Nazi concentration camp. Dachau was not a concentration Camp for Jewish people, but rather it was a [...]
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Friday in Munich
This Thursday we visited the second largest German football stadium and the Bavarian palace, Rezidenz Munich. Visiting Allianz stadium was awesome, it's easy to see why it was first the stadium used to host a NFL game in Europe. The stadium is probably on of the most clean and new stadiums I've ever seen even [...]
Thursday In Munich
Thursday we made our way to Munich from Reutlingen very early. We arrived we went on a tour of the BMW factory. Above is a picture before we toured the BMW plant in BMW's headquarters. In the plant we saw four sections of production, the chassis assembly, the paint shop, marriage, and seat production. It [...]
Wednesday in Reutlingen
Today we went to visit one of our partnering Universities, University of Reutlingen, to learn more about industry 4.0 . We visited Reutlingen University's Werk-150 shop, which is 8,750 sq-ft building solely dedicated to teaching and researching smart manufacturing methods. Here we furthered our knowledge in the needs and considerations in creating assembly lines as [...]
Tuesday in Stuttgart
Tuesday we went to see where they make Porsche's, while I was there I was also able to see the Porsche museum. Porsche is one of the most if not the most successful brands in motorsports with over 30,000 victories in a multitude of racing series. most notably they've won the most grueling race, the [...]
Monday in Stuttgart Germany
Monday was in Stuttgart was an amazing experience. Early in the morning we took a bus to the largest Mercedes plant, where we got to the manufacturing process of the s class models as well as the c class models. The manufacturing process for the chassis where they assemble the body in white (chassis)is 99.3% [...]
Sunday in Stuttgart, Germany
Today was actually my second day in Germany as I came a day early to combat the effects of jet lag. Today Jim, our faculty advisor, took me out and about Stuttgart before the rest of the group because I arrived early. Here is a picture of one of the government buildings, formerly a lords [...]
