Dalian (Dec. 16-17)

Us automotive engineering students were invited to Dalian by the FEV company. This company with headquarters in Aachen, Germany, is a very advanced engine development company. In addition to the development of engines or engine components, they also install the production line of a new engine and do the endurance testing. Here you can see one of the workbenches, where the engine can be run on. In addition to the facility tour, we visited a locomotive factory and a shipyard. It was interesting to see, that the locomotive engines were still produced manually with turning, drilling, grinding machines etc. operated by the workers. They have not heard of NC-machines yet! Major 12 or 16 cylinder V-Diesel engines were produced which were assembled into the locomotive body. The ship's engine was by far the most impressive one. Unfortunately the company permitted us to take picture inside the factory. But you must have seen the three-storey high engine and the five huge pistons that are assembled into the engine. This is real mechanical engineering.
It started snowing heavily all of a sudden.
Getting in at Dalian International Airport. It had just started to snow three hours ago.
The first snow in China. I simply had to portrait this.