{"id":1707,"date":"2020-02-04T11:03:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T11:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/?p=1707"},"modified":"2020-02-04T11:04:29","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T11:04:29","slug":"students-visit-vw-factory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/students-visit-vw-factory\/","title":{"rendered":"Students visit VW factory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rohitha Weerasinghe reports on a recent student trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">54 students and 5 staff members went to Bratislava to visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visit-volkswagen.sk\/en\/werksbesichtigung\/bratislava\/\">VW production facility<\/a>, the second largest in Europe last week. Students had the opportunity to see how a few car models are being mass produced, so enhancing their engineering experience beyond the class room. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/01\/Brat-tourist-4_smaller-cropped.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1751\" width=\"336\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/01\/Brat-tourist-4_smaller-cropped.png 590w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/01\/Brat-tourist-4_smaller-cropped-300x285.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 336px) 85vw, 336px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And while they were there, students and staff took the most of their opportunity to visit the historic Bratislava city and embrace Slovak culture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"505\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/01\/Brat-tourist-3_smaller-1024x505.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1748\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/01\/Brat-tourist-3_smaller-1024x505.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/01\/Brat-tourist-3_smaller-300x148.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/01\/Brat-tourist-3_smaller-768x379.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/01\/Brat-tourist-3_smaller.png 1136w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"853\" height=\"445\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/01\/Brat-group-smaller-cropped.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1749\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/01\/Brat-group-smaller-cropped.png\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/?attachment_id=1749\" class=\"wp-image-1749\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/01\/Brat-group-smaller-cropped.png 853w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/01\/Brat-group-smaller-cropped-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2020\/01\/Brat-group-smaller-cropped-768x401.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rohitha Weerasinghe reports on a recent student trip. 54 students and 5 staff members went to Bratislava to visit the VW production facility, the second largest in Europe last week. Students had the opportunity to see how a few car models are being mass produced, so enhancing their engineering experience beyond the class room. And &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/students-visit-vw-factory\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Students visit VW factory&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":1746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,17,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-teaching","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1707"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1752,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions\/1752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}