Astronomical skills for engineers
The AIP summer school took part at the research campus Potsdam Babelsberg.
Credit: AIP/E. Popow40 young researches visited summer school at AIP.
40 international participants took part in the summer school "Opto mechanical Design in Astronomy" at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) at the research campus Potsdam Babelsberg. During four days of lectures and hands-on training they studied the opto-mechnaical details of optical, infrared and radio telescopes. Main topics were current multinational projects such at the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT), the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) and the 64 meter Sardinia Radio Telescope (SRT) as best practice examples for real engineer applications.
The coming giant telescopes with 30 and 50 meter mirrors will take fine mechanical construction to its limits. Therefore, clever engineers with astronomical background skills are absolutely needed to realize practical engineer applications for these future giants. The basics have been set now by seven lectures and six experts during AIP's summer school.
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The AIP summer school took part at the research campus Potsdam Babelsberg.
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