A group of University of Malta undergraduate Engineering students and postgraduate students following the M.Sc. in Integrated Product Development (IPD) course recently participated in an industrial study tour to Germany. 

The study tour was organised by the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and was led by Dr Ing. Philip Farrugia and Dr Arif Rochman. Students had the opportunity to visit the manufacturing line of the BMW 3 and 4 Series models in Munich, observe the manufacturing of various civil and military Tiger helicopters and Airbus door panels at Airbus Helicopters in Donauwörth. The group of students also saw the manufacturing of various models of trucks at M.A.N., the plasma power generation research facilities at Max Planck Institute and the Deutches Museum, the world's largest museum of science and technology.