The day started off with a short, 1.5 hour, busdrive to the campinas campus where we arrived at the chemical engineering department. Here we got a very enthusiastic, and honest, presentation about their department by the Dean. After answering some of our questions about student life, how their curriculum had changed and it’s impacts, and some other important and less important questions. We were led to the star of the tour, their modular lab. Here students were allowed to build their own setups, using modules that were easily added or removed. The students were very excited by this and were wondering why this couldn’t be done for us back in Eindhoven.

After this we were led to the department of chemistry on the same campus. Thus, we got a sense of both sides of our study and were able to compare the differences between both on the same campus.

We then hopped on the bus once more, another 1.5 hours, to go back to São Paulo, and arrive at DOW. Here, we got an introduction into how our study flows into industry and DOW did not hold back. Multiple employees gave their side of how they ended up at DOW, how DOW helps them to develop their skills and what it takes to eventually do a chemical engineering or chemistry job and some more of the regulatory sides that come with the business. After this, we were led around their offices, all three floors, which were lavishly decorated and focused on employee health and comfort.