WEBVTT 00:16.120 --> 00:20.640 Today we are here at the practical part of the aerodynamics lecture as 00:20.640 --> 00:22.460 a literal pilot project. 00:23.760 --> 00:29.240 Together we wanted to link the theoretical aspects of aerodynamics, of 00:29.240 --> 00:32.100 aviation, with real hands-on experiences. 00:35.320 --> 00:41.800 It was definitely a very exciting experience in which we were able to 00:41.800 --> 00:47.420 learn a lot like the students on the other side of the lecture hall. 00:53.200 --> 00:57.180 The CERN is like the Europa-Park for physicists. 00:58.640 --> 01:01.120 You get to know all the experiments that you know from the university 01:01.120 --> 01:04.620 and from the lectures and from the exams that you always have to take. 01:04.780 --> 01:07.700 You really get to know them in real life and that's super cool. 01:09.120 --> 01:14.600 The task of the university professor is, of course, to arouse and 01:14.600 --> 01:17.780 promote this enthusiasm for science in general in the next generation. 01:18.540 --> 01:24.340 In fact, we also do classic lectures in which we explain things to the 01:24.340 --> 01:25.040 students for an hour and a half. 01:26.580 --> 01:30.440 But also in the lectures, this active learning is very, very 01:30.440 --> 01:31.220 important, i.e. 01:31.240 --> 01:33.500 through questions and dialogue in the lecture area. 01:33.800 --> 01:36.280 And then they come here with this experience, with this first learner 01:36.280 --> 01:39.620 and can understand and see and touch things. 01:46.150 --> 01:50.850 The scenario was a high-rise building made of individual stones and 01:50.850 --> 01:54.470 these stones had to be collected with two cooperating vehicles. 01:54.590 --> 01:57.110 This is the central one, which works fully autonomously. 01:57.830 --> 02:00.190 That fits into today's high level of automation. 02:07.380 --> 02:12.020 It felt very good to have a very large project that is also very 02:12.020 --> 02:17.920 practical and to apply the theory properly and to use the hands. 02:22.430 --> 02:25.900 And that's a whole new concept, to say very early on, we actually have 02:25.900 --> 02:27.540 to involve the trainees here. 02:28.460 --> 02:32.140 I learned a lot about CAD construction, i.e. 02:32.520 --> 02:35.800 the CAD construction of our existing model, for example. 02:36.340 --> 02:38.840 But I also think that the students learned a little more about how 02:38.840 --> 02:40.220 sheet metal parts can be manufactured. 02:42.820 --> 02:48.420 Our professional experience says that we do not have these hard limits 02:48.420 --> 02:48.420 these days. 02:49.020 --> 02:52.920 There are the academics and the trainees, but they work together. 02:53.040 --> 02:55.400 They also have to work together to create something good. 03:00.750 --> 03:06.270 The goal is to understand fully how plastics move in rivers in order 03:06.270 --> 03:11.670 to predict where plastics move, how they move, to basically improve 03:11.670 --> 03:15.370 our monitoring of plastics, to manage plastics and to ultimately clean 03:15.370 --> 03:16.290 them up in rivers. 03:16.830 --> 03:19.910 I think this is my first time here, where you actually do an 03:19.910 --> 03:20.970 experiment yourself. 03:21.830 --> 03:23.830 And a lot of it is left to us ourselves. 03:23.930 --> 03:27.690 If we have questions, of course, we can balance it out again, but you 03:27.690 --> 03:28.790 don't get everything provided. 03:29.170 --> 03:31.530 And you have to get into it yourself and it's fun. 03:31.530 --> 03:37.970 They are really engaged, they're hands-on and really learning exactly 03:37.970 --> 03:40.790 what we are doing as well as researchers. 03:41.230 --> 03:44.850 These experiments that you see here today are very similar to the 03:44.850 --> 03:46.670 experiments that we are conducting ourselves. 03:47.290 --> 03:51.830 So we kind of get feedback from the students as well as feedback from 03:51.830 --> 03:52.190 us. 04:00.220 --> 04:03.540 This methodological approach that we follow here, that the students 04:03.540 --> 04:08.380 not only read and learn and listen, but that they come into action, 04:08.780 --> 04:12.440 make experiments themselves and are also very close to our own 04:12.440 --> 04:13.320 research projects. 04:14.060 --> 04:18.660 And this gives us new insights, critical thinking, learning and all 04:18.660 --> 04:21.260 the skills that we actually want to convey in our studies.