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Summer Schools of Carl Benz School

Group 1: 25 June – 1 July, 2015

Group 2 :  2 July – 8 July, 2015

Carl Benz School of Engineering in Germany is organizing again this year ‘Summer Schools’ in two groups in July 2015 as shown above. The Carl Benz Summer School is a great opportunity to gain first impressions of student life and to learn more about your possible future career in engineering! The week long summer school provides lectures and excursions focussing on railway system technology, automobiles, robotics, energy and virtual engineering. Participants also have the chance to experience various hands-on activities during the workshops.

A series of exciting excursions give you the opportunity to become acquainted with Karlsruhe and the German culture. The highlight of the excursions will be the visit of the most popular theme park in Germany – the Europa-Park in Rust. The visit to the world-famous Daimler AG completes the summer school academic agenda.

Overview of Tentative Programme

Date Event
Friday Arrival at the hotel
Saturday Official start of program Welcome party Sightseeing tour Karlsruhe Swimming pool
Sunday Excursion adventure park Europapark Rust
Monday Welcome at Carl Benz School Lecture “Man & Energy” Lunch break at KIT Mensa Visit of the lifecycle engineering solutions center Workshop “Design & build a solar powered Vehicle”
Tuesday Workshop KA-RaceIng / Formula Student Mensa, lunch break Lecture “The physics of railways“ Electronics workshop
Wednesday Lecture “Introduction to programming in C++“ Lunch break at KIT Mensa Lecture “Control systems“
Thursday Visit of the “Humanoids and intelligence systems laboratories“ Lunch break at KIT Mensa Company visit: Daimler AG, Rastatt
Friday Art workshop Lunch break at KIT mensa Lecture “Railway systems and technology“ Carl Benz School self assessment

School finalists from India desirous of enrolling on CBS for their Engineering degree may like to participate in one of the above summer school. The cost of participation in summer school is Euro 700 excluding the cost of local / international travel and boarding / lodging in hotel and the deadline for application to join summer school is 30 April, 2016.

For further queries, please contact –

 

Dr Rajendra Prasad

Counsellor for CBS in India

Ph 91 11 45630873

(Source: http://carlbenz.idschools.kit.edu/summer_school.php)

By Rajendra Prasad

Dr Rajendra Prasad - a technocrat having served for life with India's premier scientific and technological research agency, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) has established his consulting firm, Merit India Consultants P Ltd (henceforth 'MERIT-INDIA'). Dr Prasad superannuated from CSIR as Head 'of International Scientific Affairs at the end of 2007. The main aim of setting up of 'MERIT-INDIA' as well its portal 'TECHNOLOGY-PATENT.COM' is to enhance global competitiveness of industry and businesses by managing their innovation successfully. Dr Prasad brings in his rich and diverse experiences in technology related domains and wide range of international exposure.

Besides CSIR, where he had his basic grounding, Dr Prasad also held important positions with other important institutions from time to time either on loan or on deputation as detailed below:

- World Bank (2008) for strengthening 'science and technology' in Africa

- The British Council (1998) for strengthening scientific cooperation between India and UK. and for implementing a prestigious higher technical education project in India

- Ministry of Science & Technology (Govt. of India) (1987-90) for strengthening research and development in Indian industry

Starting as an active bench scientist, Dr Prasad contributed in development of a number of pesticide technologies that were successfully transferred to industry for commercial production in India. Later he was exposed to a wide range of industries and assessment of critical technologies in different sectors, viz., energy (coal & petroleum), drugs and pharmaceuticals, cement, fertilizers, carbon / acetylene black, environment, polymers, refrigeration and air-conditioning, electronic and electrical components etc.

Dr Prasad has strong interest in 'environmental and science policy issues' and also founded 'Indian Network for Soil Contamination Research' which has about 200 members from across various scientific and research institutions in India. He is on the board of 'Pacific Basin Consortium for Environment and Health'

http://pbc.eastwestcenter.org/members/prasad.html

Dr Prasad is a Registered Patent Agent with the Government of India's Patent Office and is adept in performing work on patent applications related to many fields.

He has also been recently designated as SCIENTIFIC ADVISER to the Controller General of Patents & Trade Marks in India.

Dr Prasad is widely traveled throughout the world in connection with his official duties as well as for scholarly networking.

On this FORUM, Dr Prasad represents as an official representative of Carl Benz School of Engineering, Karsruhe, Germany and offers free counselling to school finalists aspiring to get into this elite school for higher studies.