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International Logistics & Industry-curriculum, travel, & culture from the American perspective
Today we visited Dachau concentration camp and later ate at the hofbraeuhaus. Visiting Dachau was very intense, and I felt that our tour guide approached the tour with a perfect pace and tone for the environment. Recognizing that some of the worst events in human history happened on the ground you are standing on is [...]
Today in Munich, our group first toured the Allianz arena, the second largest arena in Germany. The stadium can fit 75k people! Afterwards, we took a quick look through the museum and gift shop. In the latter half of the day, we visited the Royal Palace, the largest palace in Germany. The collection of rooms [...]
This morning we traveled to Munich! We took the ICE (inter city express), to get there, which actually was a slightly slower speed than I expected. The train chugged along at around 40-60 km/hr in the cities, but for long stretches of land was probably traveling around 120km/he. Once we arrived, we spent the day [...]
Today was spent at Reutlingen University, where we learned about how factories can optimize their production line by divvying up tasks that take similar amounts of time to workers, so that each worker can complete one task each without bottlenecks. The students of Reutlingen seemed much more social at lunch than Purdue students, which was [...]
We began the day with a tour of the Mercedes-Benz museum. The structure of the museum was very interesting, and it emphasized the role that the cars played in the development of culture and society throughout the 20th century. Afterwards, we took a short break and toured the Porsche Factory, which was much smaller than [...]
This morning our group took a tour of the Mercedes plant in Sindelfingen. The level or automation and precision that goes into making these machines is incredible, but as far as integrating AI into the process goes, I think that Mercedes has some work to do. That’s not to say the plant was not high [...]
