A dozen students from Purdue University in Indiana, United States, this week discovered the Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena and large industrial, energy and aerospace facilities with which UPCT researchers collaborate.
The North American students, who study Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Aerospace Engineering, have held a seminar about motors in test laboratory and computer classrooms of the Technical School of Industrial Engineering of the Polytechnic.
"The visit to the UPCT allows us to know the industrial and energetic pole of the region of Cartagena, which has attracted a great deal of attention to the students," explains Purdue University professor Guillermo Paniagua.
The students have known these days the assembly and manufacturing workshops and test benches of Navantia, Gas Natural-Fenosa combined cycle plant and the General Air Academy, whose University Defense Center is attached to the Polytechnic.
"We will propose to repeat the experience the next course and to be able to establish a channel so that the students of Purdue can come to the UPCT to practice and vice versa," says Paniagua.
Source: UPCT