Copyright (c) 2010, Study Tour Satori http://satori.thor.edu/index.php/feeds/ en Study Tour Satori News Tue, 28 Apr 2015 10:47:19 +0200 http://satori.thor.edu/index.php/news/article/49 As the sun rose on Thursday, March 17th, so did the participants of the Satori Study Tour. At least, most of them, since two didn't want to say goodbye to their beds and had to be dragged out of their room. Fortunately, even they were up and ready to leave by the time the bus had arrived. Tue, 22 Mar 2011 10:44:26 +0100 News http://satori.thor.edu/index.php/news/article/48 Last night's karaoke called for sleeping in and that we sure did, as we wanted to spend our last day relaxed. Refreshed, we visited the last cultural highlight of our trip: the Kaiyukan Osaka Aquarium. Its main attraction, a gigantic whale shark, can only be found in three aquaria in the world! Kaiyukan is built around a tank of 9 metres in height, which contains sea life from the Pacific. Visitors start at the top and spiral downwards around this tank while they enjoy looking at animals such as dolphins, penguins and corals in smaller tanks on the side. This construction was fascinating, as you were continuously introduced to new fish as you went deeper, while you were still able to see the rest swimming at different heights. As a consequence, the same fish tank could fascinate one over and over again at every level. We therefore spent quite some time at Kaiyukan, but we all agreed that it was definitely worth it. Fri, 18 Mar 2011 14:37:11 +0100 News http://satori.thor.edu/index.php/news/article/47 The Satori study tour received attention from the Cursor, the TU/e's periodical. The piece includes an interview concerning the situation in Japan at the moment. Read the article here. Wed, 16 Mar 2011 16:15:44 +0100 News http://satori.thor.edu/index.php/news/article/46 Today we had our final technical excursion. This time we visited KEPCO, the utility company that manages the power network in the Kansai region. We listened to presentations about the company and about the cooperation with its partner companies. At the end of the excursion we got a look into the actual control room of the Central Load Dispatch Centre, which looked very impressive. Wed, 16 Mar 2011 16:06:55 +0100 News http://satori.thor.edu/index.php/news/article/45 After the cultural experiences that have been attained over the last three days, it was time for a few refreshing technical excursions. On this day, we visited Otawa Denki and Mitsubishi Electric, both companies that showed us what real high voltage means. Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:43:12 +0100 News