Today I toured both the Mercedes-Benz and Porsche factories. It was very interesting seeing the contrast between the manufacturing styles. While Mercedes follows a much more automated approach, Porsche still has a lot more hand manufacturing involved. One similarity I saw that did surprise me was how both lines will make a car to completion [...]
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Sunday May 11th 2025 Day One Stuttgart
Today was the first day of our big Germany tour! Today we took a tour around the city of Stuttgart and learned about local history. Thus involved the settlement and establishment of the area, architecture of a rebuilt city post war, as well as navigating the German public transit system. I found everything both very [...]
Sunday, May 11th, 2025-Sydney Colglazier
It was a big struggle to readjust to the German way today. Overall it went very well though! The U-bahn and S-bahn systems are two things that I will never get over not having in Indiana. The food was amazing, and though I did not eat all of it, I still had the most amazing [...]
Module 6 – Logan Bateman
My name is Logan Bateman, and I am a mechanical engineering technology student. I plan on arriving on the morning of May 10th, and I am extremely excited for the next few weeks ahead. I'm looking forward to meeting everyone on the trip and especially going on the Port of Rotterdam bike tour, as its [...]
Germany Study Abroad – Day 7 – 3/16/2024 – Ryan Cameron
today was the last day of our amazing trip in Germany. Today was a deep look at history visiting the Dachau concentration camp. Learning the deep history and horror’s committed at the camp was deeply saddening but necessary part of visiting Germany and understanding the depth of the German guilt that they carry with them [...]
Germany Study Abroad – Day 5 – 3/15/2024
Today was our first day in Munich which required us to get up quite early in order for us to make our trains. We took the train back to Stuttgart and then to Munich which gave us plenty of time to rest. We then took the trains to the BMW factory and were able to [...]
Germany Spring Break Study Abroad – 3/13/2024 – Ryan Cameron
Today we went to Reutlingen University to be taught by some of the experts in different fields of technology in the school. We started off with an early departure to the university taking the bus and then meeting up in their Industry 4.0 facility with a wide range of machines and items available. Today was [...]
Germany Spring Break Study Abroad – Day 3 – 3/12/2024 – Ryan Cameron
Today was our last day in Stuttgart and our first day in Reutlingen. We were able to see the Mercedes-Benz museum which had been closed the day prior which gave us more depth on the history of the company and the effort that had been put into creating this company. We the were able to [...]
Germany Spring Break Study Abroad – Day 2 – 3/11/2024 – Ryan Cameron
The second day of our Germany adventure has us starting with an early breakfast and grabbing a train to Mercedes-Benz’s Sindelfingen factory. We were able to get a close up look at the innermost workings of the factory from the incredibly detailed robots used to ensure perfection in the frame to the teams working in [...]
Day 12 – Rotterdam – 05/25/2023
Today is the final day of excursions and we were able to visit the town of Delft and the Kinderdijk windmills. One interesting thing I learned was that Delft and many other cities/towns in the Netherlands love to have open air markets. They have all sorts of food and shops that one can go to [...]
