Author: patte365

This was the final day of the trip activities! We had a tour of the wonderful town of Delft, which I found to be beautiful. I split off from the group for a little while to go shopping at some nearby record stores, where I got to talk to some of the locals. We then [...]

This was the longest day of the trip by far! We started with a collaborative session with Erasmus University, where we got to meet students and talk about a supply chain problem. After that, we toured the university and ate there before heading to the city of The Hague. I’m typically not too into painted [...]

We started off today with the bike tour,  which I enjoyed a lot more than I thought I would! It’s cool to be in a city that’s so easy to bike around. After that, we took the train to Amsterdam, which I’m a little torn on. It’s less interesting than Rotterdam architecturally, and the smell [...]

Today was a rather slow day. I found the tour of the concentration camp to be very interesting and eye opening. You spend so much time reading about the atrocities of the holocaust, but nothing beats actually seeing where they took place. After that was lunch, and it was cool to meet the Purdue Alums [...]

Today started with the walking tour of Munich, I was surprised at just how vast Munich is. One minute you would be in a more typical German street surrounded by small shops and the next minute your surrounded by massive hundred year old buildings. The coolest parts to me were the people surfing on the [...]

Today was a pretty light day! We started off with the tour of the Bayern Munich stadium which was cool, but there was a little too many stairs for me. A few others and I had lunch at a small cafe which had a very good croissant with a pistachio filling. The tour of the [...]

Today was a long day! The collaborative  session with the university was very cool; it’s interesting to see how students in different countries go about learning. The BMW tour was very cool from a robotics engineering perspective since they had so many robots, it felt like I saw way less workers than the other factories. [...]

Today was the first day of visiting the car manufacturers! We started off by visiting Mercedes-Benz, I was shocked by just how large the area they had was, it was like a little town with shops, restaurants, massage parlor, hospital, police station, and fire station. After that we visited Porsche, the museum there had most [...]

Today was the first day of activities on our Germany / Amsterdam study abroad trip! I enjoyed learning about the history of Stuttgart on our tour and the dinner was amazing! There are a lot of small things in getting used to about German life and culture, a few interesting things I’ve noticed are: bottles [...]

Hello everyone! My name is Luke Patterson and I'm a Junior studying Robotics Engineering Technology. I will be arriving in Europe on Friday, May 8th and I will do some sight-seeing before settling into the hotel in Stuttgart Sunday night. I will be waiting Monday morning to meet all of you! I am really looking [...]