IDE Fieldwork Internship 2014 Report

IDEA League Mobility Summer School
Summer School in Aachen University: Safe and Sustainable Transport
Sunkyung Choi

1. IDEA League Summer School Program
Information about the program
The overseas experience that I participated this September was through IDEA League Mobility
Summer School. IDEA League is founded in 1999 and is a network of several European
universities such as TUDelft, ETH Zurich, RWTH Aachen, and Chalmers University. This is acollaboration program which leads technology and science activities in education, research, andquality assurance. This has several summer school programs in summer held by 4 differentuniversities. IDEA League also invites several Asian universities and students to participate theirprogram. The title of summer school program which was held in Aachen University, Germany.
The detailed information is as the following:Title: Safe and Sustainable Transport: Future passenger and freight transportation
challenges-solutions and trendsPlace: RWTH Aachen University, GermanyPeriod: September 22, 2014 – September 26, 2014

Students:

The reason for applying the summer school program
What is extraordinary about Tokyo Institute of Technology is its unique multicultural scientificexchange between many outstanding universities in the world. Especially, when studying in
Department of International Development Engineering, more opportunities are given to students
who fulfill eligibility of any programs. Through IDEA League 2014, I may have an opportunity
to take advantage of scientific exchange over a variety of students from different backgrounds.
The other reason is to be motivated through enthusiastic discussions and debates by young
scientists in the same field. I am certain that this future experience will definitely stimulate myresearch motivation and future plan as a researcher. These are the reasons why I would like toapply for IDEA League program 2014 in order to achieve one step forward as a young enthusiastic
motivated scientist.

2. Introduction of RWTH Aachen University
Visiting Aachen, Germany
Aachen is a small city located in western
Germany which has about 240,086 residents.
Surprisingly, the number of RWTH Aachen
University students is over 40,000 in theyear of 2013, which is about one sixth of thetotal population. It usually takes two or threehours from Frankfurt by train and one and ahalf hour from Dusseldorf by train.

I tooka direct flight from Narita airport toDusseldorf airport and then took train toAachen University this time.
Aachen has a famous bread-like cookie
called Printen. The taste is similar to ginger
bread and originally it was sold by pharmacists since several ingredients inside wereconsidered to be beneficial to health. The other famous thing about Aachen is Aachen
Cathedral located in center of the city. It was one of the first 12 items to be included in entry
list of UNESCO world heritage sites in 1978. I had a chance to visit the place and taste Printen
during my short stay in RWTH Aachen University.

Pic. 1. Famous Printen in Aachen

Pic. 2. Aachen Cathedral

RWTH Aachen University
RWTH Aachen University was established as Polytechnicum in 1870. It is one of Germany’s
Universities of Excellence with strong emphasis on technological research. About 20% of total
students are international students and their number exceeds more than 6,500. The remarkable
research is highly emphasized on electrical, mechanical engineering, computer sciences, physics,and chemistry and so on.

Pic. 3. RWTH Aachen University Main Building (left) and Super C (student center, right)

3. Program Outline
The schedule of summer school program is listed in Table. 1. The program consists of 5 days
program with theoretical and applied lectures, visit of IAA Commercial Vehicles held in Hannover,guest lectures by industrial experts, and deepening group work.
Table. 1. 2014 Mobility Summer School Program for RWTH Aachen University
Day 1:
Welcome at
RWTH Aachen

Day 2:
Safe andSustainable
Transport andCity TourDay 3:
Safe andSustainable
Transport andGroup WorkDay 4:
Study trip toIAA
CommercialVehicles

09:00-9:30:
Organizational
issues andtimeline

09:00-10:00:
Customeroriented vehicle
designNils Neumann,
Institut fur
Kraftfahrzeuge,
RWTH

06:00-10:00:
Bus transfer toHannover

9:30-10:30:
V2X for Road
Safety andEfficiency
Christian Ress,
Ford

10:00-11:00:
Futuretechnologies ofcommercial
trailers
Stefan Deutsche,Schmitz
Cargobull

10:30-12:00:
Future Mobility,
ADAS and

11:00-12:00:
Introduction togroup work

10:00-16:00:
IAA Commercial
Vehicles(guided tours:
SchmitzCargobull, MAN, Scania,
DAF)

Day 5:
Competition
and award
ceremony

09:00-12:00:
Competition(Presentation ofGroup work
result)12:00-13:00:
Award
ceremony andend of summer
school

13:00-14:00:
LunchSustainablity
Dr. Wolfgang
Bernhart, Roland
BergerConsulting

Alexander Busse,
Institut fur
Kraftfahrzeuge,
RWTH

12:00-13:00:
Lunch

12:00-13:00:
Lunch

13:00-14:00:
Arrival andregistration ofparticipants

13:00-15:00:
Future Mobility
Perspectives
Richard Jaimes,
Continental

14:00-15:30:
Welcome at
RWTH Aachen
Dr.Bidian(Secretarygeneral of IDEA
League)Prof.Schmachten
berg (rector
RWTH Aachen
University)
Dr.Urban (vicedirector ika,
RWTH)

15:00-17:00:
FutureTechnologies ofCommercial
VehiclesDr.Markus Baum,
Daimler
Commercial
Vehicles

16:00-18:00:
Introduction ofparticipants

17:0018:30:Guided
City Tour ofAachen

18:00-19:00:
Free time andcheck-in

18:30 -: Dinner

13:00-18:00:Group Work

16:00-20:00: Bustransfer toAachen
18:00-: Dinner

19:00 - : Dinner

20:00-:Dinner

4. Experiences in 2014 RWTH Aachen University Summer School Program
Theoretical and applied lectures
We received 6 lectures within 5 days and were asked to present group work at the end of theprogram utilizing knowledge and insights we gained through lectures. The six lectures are thefollowing:
1. V2X for Road Safety and Efficiency:
Vehicle to vehicle communication in Intelligent Transport System to secure safety of drivers andsociety
2. Future Mobility, ADAS and Sustainablity:
Connected cars and automated cars – implications for the industry
The trend in megacities, developing countries
3. Future Mobility Perspectives:

Methods for future research – forecast, trend, scenario
Need to think and understand complex connections in society
4. Future Technologies of Commercial Vehicles:
Active safety technologies
5. Customer-oriented vehicle design:
Customer analysis and holistic market approach
Understanding correlation of socio-economic change, mobility behavior of customer groups
6. Future technologies of commercial trailers:
Fuel consumption reduction by aerodynamics study and weight reduction
2014 IAA Commercial Vehicles Show
IAA Commercial Vehicles Show is the leading International trade fair for business, automotive,
transportation, logistics, automobiles, automotive parts, automotive services, service station
supply, etc. New technologies are introduced at the place. Some of the keywords are: light weight
design, new chasis design, and research on aerodynamics, low fuel consumption, etc.

Pic. 4. and Pic. 5. Visit to IAA Commercial Vehicles show
Group work presentation and competition
On the third day of summer school, the students were asked to be divided into three groups andpresent their analysis on the last day of the summer school. The topic of group work was
configuration of vehicle powertrains best fitting to demands of specific customer group andscenario of an IDEA League Region 5 years from today. We were given some data about customer
targets, different scenarios, information about technologies to reduce CO2 emissions, etc. andutilize these data to set our parameters and reasons to choose one particular vehicle configurationfor each targeted customer group. The work was closely related to marketing and automotiveengineering. We had 4 different nationalities in one group: India, China, Germany and Korea and3 different majors in one group: mechanical engineering, transport planning, and automotiveengineering. Successful key factors for winning 2nd place in competition are active discussion,dividing the tasks while utilizing individual’s strengths, high efficiency.

Pic. 6. Group Photo and Pic. 7. Presentation slide from competition day

5. Conclusion
It was actually 3rd valuable abroad experience while studying in Hanaoka Lab, Department ofInternational Development Engineering. The three are the following: British Science MuseumInternship, London, Great Britain, 2012, AOTULE International Student Conference, Bangkok,Thailand, 2013, IDEA League Summer School Program, Aachen, Germany, 2014. There are a lotof intelligent young researchers outside and it is always good idea to get stimulation by interactingwith people from different disciplines and backgrounds. Although group work seemed to bechallenging and complex at first but our team struggled together in order to produce meaningfuloutput. I really am grateful again to have such a valuable opportunity via internship and summer
school program here in Titech.