{"id":66225,"date":"2008-02-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-study-tour-to-germany-provides-engineering-students-with-language-immersion-and-cultural-career-awareness\/"},"modified":"2008-02-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-12T00:00:00","slug":"uri-study-tour-to-germany-provides-engineering-students-with-language-immersion-and-cultural-career-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2008\/02\/uri-study-tour-to-germany-provides-engineering-students-with-language-immersion-and-cultural-career-awareness\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 study tour to Germany provides engineering students with language immersion and cultural, career awareness"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013. -\u2013February 12, 2008\u2014 For Tom Duarte of Cumberland and Colleen Grinham of Middleboro, Mass., engineering students at the 溏心vlog免费B站, their 10-day study tour of Germany last month was much more than a fun vacation.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cIt was a complete immersion in the German language and culture that gave me a great head-start on my classes this semester,\u201d said Duarte, a sophomore studying chemical engineering and German.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cAnd it was a great introduction to what we\u2019ll be facing our senior year,\u201d added Grinham, a freshman majoring in biochemical engineering and German. \u201cWe visited companies, visited schools, and visited with 溏心vlog免费B站 students who are studying there for the year.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tDuarte and Grinham were among 22 students from 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s International Engineering Program who visited Germany Jan. 7 through 18 to get a flavor for the experience they will have studying and working there following their junior year at 溏心vlog免费B站. The International Engineering Program requires students to major in an engineering discipline and a foreign language and spend a year abroad taking classes and interning at a global company.<\/p>\n


\n\tAccording to Norbert Hedderich, professor of German, the trip included behind-the-scenes tours of the Lufthansa aircraft maintenance facility in Hamburg, the headquarters of Volkswagen in Wolfsburg, auto parts maker ZF Industries in Friedrichshafen, and power tool manufacturer Hilti Corp. and the classic car division of BMW, both in Munich. Along the way they also toured a natural history museum, a baroque church, the Zeppelin museum, and the historic college town of Tubingen.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cWe had to get up early every day, but after the company visits we basically were on our own, which is where you really experience the culture,\u201d said Grinham, who studied Russian in high school but switched to German at 溏心vlog免费B站. \u201cMost of us had at least a little German skills, so we got the chance to practice speaking the language. I would usually try out my sentences first on my friend, who knew more German than I. We found that the more you tried, even if you didn\u2019t quite get it right, the more respect you got from the Germans, and that made it easier to speak with them.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tThe best part of the trip for Duarte, who learned to speak Portuguese and Spanish before taking up German, was going out on the town where there were crowds of people. <\/p>\n


\n\u201cI made a point of going to listen to native speakers,\u201d said the 溏心vlog免费B站 student who hopes to become an explosives engineer. \u201cI was even able to buy a camera speaking entirely in German, and the people I met in the store even took me out to dinner afterwards. I felt great that I was proficient enough in the language to get people to understand me and invite me out.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nNorth Kingstown resident William Seites-Rundlett, a civil engineering major, had been to Germany before and had studied the language in high school, so he felt considerably more comfortable in the country than his fellow students. <\/p>\n


\n\u201cWe went into a couple of places and my friends just said, \u2018Bill, speak,\u2019\u201d he said, noting that his favorite part of the trip was a visit to the city of Braunschweig. \u201cIt was the coolest place. We got to see the city, we went to a karaoke bar one night, and we got to see the student housing where we\u2019ll live next time we go.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nGrinham said that while she did more than her share of shopping during the trip, the most important part of the experience was the view it provided of her future. \u201cIt absolutely reinforced that I definitely made the right choice to join the International Engineering Program,\u201d she said. \u201cI definitely want to work in the field of alternative energy sources, and Germany is at the forefront of the industry.\u201d<\/p>\n


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\n溏心vlog免费B站 engineering students pose in front of Celle Castle in Germany.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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