Before I began the reflection, I want to type out my gratitude. First I want to thank Dr. Feick and Mrs. Dawkins for conducting the trip. Next, I want to thank every company during the trip that allowed us to tour their factory and help give us necessary information that was needed for our analysis…
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Day 12 – Back to Munich – Augsburg, Germany
The 12th day of this trip was our last day in Germany. Since it was our last day in Germany, we were given this day as a free day. I choose to spend this day by going back to Germany to spend the day with a friend that I know. My friend’s name is Jonathan…
Day 11 – Goodbye dinner – Augsburg, Germany
Today marks the last day of the program. By this I mean this was the last day where we had to do some scheduled activity, in this case it was our presentation. My group worked on Forvia (formally known as Feurica until it merged with Hella). The morning started by my group going to the…
Day 10 – Neuschwanstein – Augsburg, Germany
Day 10 already? Ludwig the 2nd was a very interesting person. He was king of Bavaria, except he never wanted to be a king. He was very anti-social and would spend most of his days in his castle, which is called Neuschwanstein. Instead of ruling, Ludwig was more into art and therefore would build these…
Day 9 – Regensburg – Augsburg, Germany
Day 9 already? Today was another early start to the day since we needed to take a 2 hour bus ride to Regensburg, Germany. Regensburg is famous for two main things. The first thing is that Regensburg wasn’t damaged by WW2, so a lot of the buildings have been here since the Roman Empire. The…
Day 8 – A very dark time of history – Augsburg, Germany
Today’s visit was at Dachau Concentration Camp. This isn’t going to be a light hearted post since this topic is a very serious topic. Dachau was the first concentration camp in Germany and it served as a model for the other concentration camps. About 48,000 people were killed at this camp and over 118,000 people…
Day 7 – Munich + Yoga? – Augsburg, Germany
The title doesn’t even sound real to me. I can’t believe that it is already day 7 of our trip and we are officially half way done the trip. This morning we departed to Munich by a train, which went around 140 miles per hour. This train was extremely cool, although it did make me…
Day 6 – Audi – Augsburg, Germany
Today was an early start as our day started at 7am. Today was the final company tour and that tour was Audi. It took about an hour to get to their factory. This was the biggest factory we visited because this factory made and assembled the cars. Most of their assembly line was automated, in…
Day 5 – Forvia – Augsburg, Germany
We started off the morning by having a traditional Bavarian breakfast, white sausage and pretzels. The white sausage is made out of pork and veal and then grinded into a pig intestines casing. You are supposed to peal off the pig intestines casing before you eat it. The white sausages was really good and I…
Day 4- Grob – Augsburg, Germany
Today officially marks the 4th day in Germany and oh my how fast this is going by. Today also marks the second day of our company visits, in which we visited Grob. The inside of the factory was really cool, but due to legal reasons, we’re not allowed to take photos, so if you want…
Day 3 – Hoerbiger + Alps – Augsburg, Germany
Today was a really early start to where we had to depart from our hotel at 7:30 a.m.. Today marked the first day of our company visits and the first company we visited was Hoerbiger. Unfortunately we weren’t allowed to take photos inside of the building, so I will just have to describe the company…
Day 2 – 18,000 steps and counting- Augsburg, Germany
Today was a tour of both the University of Augsburg and more of the city. The University of Augsburg was way different from any other campuses that I have visited before. There is so much greenery around the campus. There were trees everywhere and the grass was growing everywhere, so it felt like I was…
Day 1 – Nailed the landing – Augsburg, Germany
Today was a very exciting day of many new firsts, such as my first time on an airplane and my first time ever leaving the United States. Our flight landed on 5/7/2023 at 7 in the morning. Once landed and luggage was claimed, it was time to take the bus to Augsburg. Along the way…