Germany’s coastal engineering students visit NCKU
Tainan, Taiwan, April 8, 2015
Dr. Torsten Schlurmann, Managing Director and Chair of Franzius-Institute for Hydraulic, Waterways and Coastal Engineering of Leibniz University Hannover in Germany recently led a group of 14 master students to visit Coastal Ocean Monitoring Center (COMC) in National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), southern Taiwan, according to the university.
“We came into contact with our 30-year cooperation with NCKU and brought 14 master students from our department to make a technical excursion in Taiwan,” Schlurmann revealed in an interview taking place at COMC on March 30.
He said, “COMC run an operational basis data buoys and wave and current estimation sensors along the Taiwanese coast and they process the data in a real time and produce knowledge and data in order to provide early warning for the public.”
“The technique is world-renowned here in COMC,” Schlurmann noted. “They are doing really state-of-the art scientific job even Germany can learn from the experiment given here in Taiwan,” he added.
NCKU COMC arranged a briefing and technical excursion to help the students understand ocean observation and prediction in Taiwan. Professor C. J. Huang from COMC said, “Our center coordinates operational coastal ocean monitoring network to ensure marine safety and mitigate coastal hazards.”
Schlurmann commented, “This is a very complicated prediction technique and we still don’t have this prediction technique in Germany for the North Sea.”
“But you can do it here in Taiwan because it’s necessary for a country surrounded by coast sides and the prediction has to be made in order to safeguard the people on the shore,” he added.
Mathias Wien, a costal engineering student from the institute, said he was impressed by the prediction system operated in COMC. “I’m interested in the coastal protection work here because there is no typhoon and tsunami in Germany.”
Another student Arndt Hildebrandt who had taken his first round-trip in Taiwan with the team claimed the visit is very informative.
Julia Benndorf who is also first time in Taiwan said that she had never been to Asia before and she felt so excited about what she’s experiencing here. “It’s very interesting that we’re experiencing things we never seen or eaten before like seafood here is amazing!” she said.
“I always thought that I don’t like seafood so much but after we ate a lot here, it tastes really good,” Benndorf said with a bright smile.
In COMC, a total of four operational systems have been developed and are under operation, including data buoy, pile station, coastal weather station and tidal station.
In the past 10 years, the success data rate during the typhoon is about 92%. The maximum significant wave height measured so far is 15m, which is equivalent to a maximum wave height of over 20 meters, Huang added.
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Dr. Torsten Schlurmann, Managing Director and Chair of Franzius-Institute for Hydraulic, Waterways and Coastal Engineering of Leibniz University Hannover in Germany recently led a group of 14 master students to visit Coastal Ocean Monitoring Center (COMC) in National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), southern Taiwan, according to the university.
“We came into contact with our 30-year cooperation with NCKU and brought 14 master students from our department to make a technical excursion in Taiwan,” Schlurmann revealed in an interview taking place at COMC on March 30.
He said, “COMC run an operational basis data buoys and wave and current estimation sensors along the Taiwanese coast and they process the data in a real time and produce knowledge and data in order to provide early warning for the public.”
“The technique is world-renowned here in COMC,” Schlurmann noted. “They are doing really state-of-the art scientific job even Germany can learn from the experiment given here in Taiwan,” he added.
NCKU COMC arranged a briefing and technical excursion to help the students understand ocean observation and prediction in Taiwan. Professor C. J. Huang from COMC said, “Our center coordinates operational coastal ocean monitoring network to ensure marine safety and mitigate coastal hazards.”
Schlurmann commented, “This is a very complicated prediction technique and we still don’t have this prediction technique in Germany for the North Sea.”
“But you can do it here in Taiwan because it’s necessary for a country surrounded by coast sides and the prediction has to be made in order to safeguard the people on the shore,” he added.
Mathias Wien, a costal engineering student from the institute, said he was impressed by the prediction system operated in COMC. “I’m interested in the coastal protection work here because there is no typhoon and tsunami in Germany.”
Another student Arndt Hildebrandt who had taken his first round-trip in Taiwan with the team claimed the visit is very informative.
Julia Benndorf who is also first time in Taiwan said that she had never been to Asia before and she felt so excited about what she’s experiencing here. “It’s very interesting that we’re experiencing things we never seen or eaten before like seafood here is amazing!” she said.
“I always thought that I don’t like seafood so much but after we ate a lot here, it tastes really good,” Benndorf said with a bright smile.
In COMC, a total of four operational systems have been developed and are under operation, including data buoy, pile station, coastal weather station and tidal station.
In the past 10 years, the success data rate during the typhoon is about 92%. The maximum significant wave height measured so far is 15m, which is equivalent to a maximum wave height of over 20 meters, Huang added.
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