Over the past few weeks, the faculty has developed an e-mobility trail. The goal is for prospective students to use this interactive trail to discover, as independently as possible, what skills they will acquire while pursuing a degree at the faculty.
Students from the Preparatory College for International Students were the first to set out on the trail. Prof. Dr. Haim—the Dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science—highlighted the good career prospects in his welcome remarks (Image 1): “The path is challenging, but it’s worth it…”
Image 1
Afterward, the prospective students eagerly took the opportunity to test out the newly opened E-Mobility Trail and thereby gain their own personal impression of the faculty’s modern infrastructure .
The stations along the trail presented the young people with a wide variety of challenges. At soldering stations, KIA students from the faculty helped them build electronic circuits themselves and get them working (Figure 2).
Figure 2
At other stations, participants could explore how the Park Distance Control system in modern vehicles works, how hot the filament of a halogen bulb gets, what “software-defined radio” means, how robots learn to see, how traffic lights are programmed, or how a smartphone can be used to control an entire industrial plant. Visitors could also experience the practical side of electric mobility during a test drive.
The E-Mobility Trail will be further expanded by the time of the College Information Day on June 13, 2015, to accommodate the expected interest. There, for example, drone flights will be offered, and at the training signal box in Zittau-Süd, prospective students will set the course for the future themselves…
Further information:
Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang MenzelSenior Laboratory Engineer, Department E
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
w.menzel@hszg.de