On January 30, 2017, students from the Varnsdorf Vocational School and the Bautzen Vocational School Center for Business and Technology visited the university. The students from the Czech Republic and Germany attended a demonstration lecture on lightning and thunder. High-voltage technical systems are designed to be as round as possible, while lightning rods are designed to be as pointed as possible—why? What is required so that a person can touch a high-voltage power line without danger? What happens to insulators exposed to high voltage? These are questions that are impressively tested and answered through experiments in the “High-Voltage Hall” laboratory at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
The event is part of the preparations for the Neisse-Elektro Electrical Engineering Olympiad. This is a competition to which 20 Polish, 20 Czech, and 20 German students from the region are invited. The winners can look forward to prizes worth 1,000 EUR. This event is supported by the“VDE-Bezirksverein Dresden e.V.”
Contact:
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Mr. Egmont Schreiter
Phone: 03583 612 4857
Email: e.schreiter@hszg.de