01. July 2019 – Lukas Eichinger

Field trip Most

On June 20 2019 the IEC offered an field trip, organized by the Research Institute for Lignite (Vúhu), to Most (CZ) with the topic “recultivation of the coal mining area next to most”. German and czech students had the chance to experience the possibilities of recultivation first hand.

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The field trip startet at the lake near Most, which is the biggest hydrorecultivated area in Czech Republik. It’s going to be a local recreation area. The amount of water in the lake gets adjusted with pipes, pumps and the water from a river 40km away. Pretty impressive performance!

But the human help is not even crucial: In some areas some plants and trees were strong enough  to grow and expand on their own. Even though the soil is pretty arid there. But this field trip was not only sight seeing! At the spoil heap Střimice the methods of taking soil samples and using that and other aspects for the developement of the best fitting recultivation programme were worked out by the whole group.

The new students’ expertise was used at the last stop: the opencast mine Vršany. This area will be completely recultivated within the next 40 years. Although the schedule for the recultivation is already made, the students discussed about the different opportunities for this territory.

Overall it was a very enlightening field trip for most of the students, who may haven’t seen all these different levels of recultivation yet!

26. June 2019 – Lukas Eichinger

Project days June 11-13

Buzz overload at IEC: pupils from a middleschool in Most (CZ) and from the “Lößnitzgymnasium” in Radebeul (D) were here for the project days at our institute. Those project days are part of the Erz2020 project as a special offer funded by the European Regional Developement Fund (EMCF). The pupils got deep insights in the plants and the engineering behind it.

Our colleagues presented the HP-POX and FlexiSlag while having the rare opportunity of enjoying the best view of the city on top of the plants. But the pupils were most impressed by the possibilities of closing the Carbon-Cycle instead of only burning our valuable recources.

After a small lunch-break with traditional Bratwurst some students from the faculty for chemistry and physics made some extraordinary Experiments, as you can see right down below:

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In a nutshell we can say, that those project days were a complete succcess!  Especially for all the pupils who had the best chance to get to know everything about their possible future studies, the big plants and work behind the studies itself and of course the joint experiences between the german and the czech pupils.

21. May 2019 – Lukas Eichinger

Recap CampusTag

While having a very sunny day, the CampusTag on saturday was a big success. Right after the Rector’s greeting words, our colleague Stefan Thiel continued with his speech about “Engineering 4.0 – Challenges of the future”, in which he took a closer look on the difficulties and chances of tomorrow’s engineers… and of course how you get prepared for that with studies at our University.

Afterwards we held a lot of informations ready at our Information Point. On the one hand about the courses of study for future process engineers, and on the other hand about our international Project “Erz2020“. In combination with this Project we offer seminars, field trips, individual prepared project days and give possibilities for knowledge exchange between students and employees.

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The most popular highlight were again our Segways. Regardless of age, everyone had a lot of fun on our little parcours.

If you have missed out on the CampusTag, you can visit us at the “Reiche Zeche”, Fuchsmühlenweg 9 on June 22 in combination with the “Night of Science and Economy“. You’ll have again the chance to get some informations about our Institute and of course to try the Segways!

28. April 2019 – Lukas Eichinger

Save the Date – CampusTag!

Get an insight into the University life!

You’re on the journey through different opportunities for studying? At the CampusTag (open house) at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg you have the possibility to experience the University first-hand. The Information Points in the TMV-hall can inform you about everything you need to know if you want to study at the TUBAF.

At the same time you can get an in-depth overview of our institute’s scientific work. And if you need a short break from all the information about university, you can take a Segway for a little ride.

Following Highlights are awaiting you:

  • Keynote speech about “Engineering 4.0 – Challenges of the Future” (german)
  • Energyquiz – proof your knowledge of recent topics
  • Erz2020 – presentation of the continuing education project for improvement of the german-czech relations and the related offers
  • e-mobility you can feel: Segway-Course

  • Eröffnungsvortrag zum letzten Campustag_©SvenJachalke

As you see, our CampusTag on Mai 18th 2019 has much to offer. You can find a more detailed overview on the TUBAF Homepage.

Just in case you are prevented from coming to our open day, you may be interested in our university days for pupils!