A lot of engineering students have spent some of their summer holiday finding out more: about the world in general, about their chosen subject, and about how they can apply their engineering skills in practice. Here are postcards from some of them.
Fixing defective equipment in Nepal
I’m in Nepal with Engineering World Health, DTU, to help repair defective equipment at a hospital in the Bhaktapur District close to the capital, Kathmandu. There is all kinds of equipment at the hospital that doesn’t work, and we try to find what’s causing the problems.
We’ve managed to repair a far amount of it, including equipment used on the maternity ward. Otherwise we spend a lot of time simply cleaning the equipment; everything is really dusty here. It feels good to have achieved something. All good.
Carita Hedegaard
Medicine and Technology
In China with the Huawei talent programme
I’m in China with the Huawei talent programme ‘Seeds for the Future’. On our first day here, we were taken on a visit to the Forbidden city—on the back of a 20-hour journey. The following days featured more sightseeing and cultural lessons in Beijing: Chinese, caligraphy and artistic painting.
We then travelled to Huawei’s headquarters in Shenzhen, where we learned about mobile networks and the cabled fibre networks of the future. We also had the chance to experiment with 3G and 4G, and to set up a GPON (Gigabit-capable Passive Optical Network).
Our 16-day visit to China concluded with a ‘feichanghao’ ceremony, where we dressed in new, tailor-made suits to receive our course certificates.
Kristoffer Clausen
Network Technology and IT
Learning the secrets of the opera house
I’m with a multidisciplinary group of Danish students of design, architecture and engineering taking part in ‘MADE by the Opera House’ this summer. Even though we’re working hard to learn all the technological and aesthetic aspects that influenced the design of Sydney Opera House,
we’ve had time to see a bit of Sydney during the first few weeks of the project. For example we went to see an Australian Rules Football match, and visited a number of places to experience the local culture and architecture.
If anyone from Architectural Engineering or Building Technology is reading this, then I’d certainly recommend applying to participate in MADE 2017, when registrations open this autumn.
Michelle Kühl
Architectural Engineering