Blended Intensive Programme (BIP) „Materials Technology and Processes“

Preperation Blended Period (30 Days- Workload 50 hours)

Students are provided with documents and lectures via a learning portal for self-study, especially for the practical activities at Esslingen University. In addition, lectures by guest professors are offered.

Participation in the virtual events and lectures is compulsory.
 

Welcome Meeting 
Sunday

Beer, beverages and snacks

When: from 06:00 pm - 08:00 pm
Where: International Office, Kanalstr. 12, Building 17, 73728 Esslingen

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

Departure

Lab Groups anD Times

Accommodation for students

We have rented 5 apartments in Esslingen very close to the university. The apartments are very modern and comortable with fast WIFI, bathrooms, kitchen and terrace. Two or three students have to share a bedroom. Of course, we will take gender separation into account. Please follow the link to see the apartments: https://www.secondhome-stuttgart.com/ Of course, students can also book a hotel on their own responsibility but we recommend to take advantage of the offer, because that way they can get to know and network with each other. However, we strongly discourage students from looking for accommodation themselves as this will be very expensive.

How to apply for accomodation

Around mid-May we will ask about the registration of students and in this context they will have to register to a place in the apartment.

Costs

Students who receive an Erasmus scholarship must pay a contribution to the accommodation costs over the fee of €210.

Arrival 

After your individual transfer from the airport to the apartments by bus or train our student tutors will suppport you with check-in. Check-in is available from 04:00 pm. There is only one key per apartment available, but the key can be deposited in a key box outside the apartment. Each resident will receive the code to open and lock the key box.

Departure 

You will have to leave your room by 10:00 am at the latest. Our student tutors will suppport you with check-out.

Accommodation for Teachers

We recomend you to book your room in the Hotel ECOINN in Esslingen very close to the university (right on the Campus City Centre).

Deadlines

Preliminary nomination by February 

The peliminary nomination does not have to contain names. It is sufficient to specify the number of students and the number of teachers you want to send. Please send your nomination to io-shortprograms[at]hs-esslingen.de.

Esslingen University will inform you by March 1st at the latest whether your group can take part in the BIP.

Final nomination by April 1st

The final nomination must include the students’ names and email addresses. Please send your nominations to io-shortprograms[at]hs-esslingen.de.

As soon as we have received your nomination list, we will inform the students about the application process.

io-shortprograms[at]hs-esslingen.de

Blended Intensive Programme (BIP) ‘Materials Technology and Processes’ successfully held for the third time

Last week, a BIP on the topic of ‘Materials Technology and Processes’ took place for the third time in the Faculty of Mechanical and Systems Engineering. BIPs are short programmes funded by the European education programme Erasmus+ that offer teachers and students new and creative opportunities for international educational cooperation and participation in jointly designed courses.

This year's participating students came from the partner universities Atlantic Technological University (Sligo, Ireland), Hellenic Mediterranean University (Chania, Crete, Greece), Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal), Karlstad University (Karlstad, Sweden), Stellenbosch University (Stellenbosch, South Africa), Universidad de Málaga (Malaga, Spain), Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal) and University of Cyprus (Nicosia, Cyprus).

The 31 students were offered an extensive programme. The programme started on Sunday evening with a get-together in front of and in the International Office building on the city centre campus. On Monday morning, lectures were held on the topics of ‘Metal Forming’ (Prof Stefan Wagner), ‘Metallography’ and ‘Additive Manufacturing’ (Prof Lukas Löber and ‘Fatigue’ (Prof Steffen Greuling). These served to prepare the labs that were on the BIP programme on the following mornings and were actively supported by Simone Döll-Eberhardinger, Achim Herdtle, Florian Markowski, Udo Merk and Elmar Schuch. The students were divided into four groups for the labs, with three groups working in the labs and one group visiting the Porsche Museum.

In addition to the technical content at the university, the students and the accompanying supervisors were also offered an extensive supporting programme. Trumpf and Bosch, for example, were very attractive companies to visit. There was also a ‘Swabian Dinner’ at Esslingen Castle, an ‘International Coffee Break’, which was also attended by students and employees of Esslingen University of Applied Sciences, as well as guided tours of Esslingen. The programme concluded on Saturday with a visit to the Museum of Technology in Sinsheim and a tour of Heidelberg.

The active support of the International Office under the leadership of Zeynep Kara, both in the preparation and in the implementation, contributed significantly to the success of the programme. The students and supervisors were full of praise for the excellent organisation and requests were received for the fourth running of the programme next autumn.

The Faculty of Mechanical and Systems Engineering is committed to attracting students to spend a semester at Esslingen University of Applied Sciences. The BIP contributes to the internationalisation of the campus and secures places for Esslingen students at universities abroad.